[cstavish]

The example of the pizza ordering is technologically impressive, yes... But from an end-user perspective it is at best "as hard" as calling the pizza place and talking to a human taking your order.

There are many use cases where it could actually provide value, but I found it funny that they chose to demonstrate one to the press that really afforded end-users no advantage.

[chongli]

The point they emphasize in the article is that Viv is supposed to allow you to say "get me pizza, flowers, a bottle of wine, and two tickets to the opera" and then it helps you figure out all that stuff and handles everything for you without you having to make any phone calls, type anything, or open any apps.

[dfischer]

That's like saying it's just as easy to call a taxi company than use Uber. (It's about the ux).

[miguelrochefort]

It's like these fools forgot that natural language sucks as an interface.

Look at the whole bot/messaging craze. The way people get excited by this is beyond me.

Surely, all of this is a symptom of howuch people hate software fragmentation. Fortunately, there are other ways to fix it.

[redplasticcup]

What if the pizza cost half as much now because it didn't require a human to standby and take the order?

[grogenaut]

I can already order my pizza with an app or with Yo Dominoes... and they cost the same...

Not sure if it's because the person on the phone is doing other stuff at the same time or if it's more like eBooks where they cost the same as Paperbacks because "more profit".

[calbear81]

The real savings would come if you have a pizza bot that made pizzas without much human intervention and a drone picked it up and dropped it off and flew back to base.

[pessimizer]

People who work at pizza places make far less than a dollar a minute (assuming you have a very complicated, very small order.)