Bixby as presented at SDC today is built on a different platform than the Bixby most people are familiar with. (The new Bixby is the work of Samsung-owned Viv L

Bixby as presented at SDC today is built on a different platform than the Bixby most people are familiar with. (The new Bixby is the work of Samsung-owned Viv Labs.) It really is an interesting platform that’s worth playing around with. You essentially define a set of “concepts and actions” (objects and functions, effectively), and then give Bixby example sentences for natural language training that specify which words represent input concepts and what the goal is (for instance, an action like “BookUber” or “FindHotel”), and Bixby dynamically generates the program for you, including adding steps on its own to prompt the user for missing information (i.e, you say “book a table at The French Laundry next Saturday at 7” and it knows it needs to ask you “for how many”). You can easily teach Bixby about context and continuing conversation, so you could say “change the reservation to Sunday” and it would know what you were talking about. And, it can even learn the user’s preferred defaults over time, so if you usually specify a table for two, it assumes that’s what you mean. (You’d be able to change that on a confirmation screen before it books anything, of course.) Full disclosure: I’m a tech writer at Viv Labs, so I’m absolutely biased. :) But I acquired this bias from working with the product.