Bright – A New Virtual Assistant Conceived By Siri Creators

SRI International, the company that developed the personal assistant Siri for our devices, is working hard on the future of smart assistant project now wearing the name of Bright. Unlike Siri, Bright would guess the intentions of users in a more advanced way than the one provided by Google Now, but it will take some time until it will reach the market.

Currently Bright is designed to help IT technicians to prevent the spread of viruses in computer networks, and emergency service operators which need to quickly send aid to people in distress.

Bright may, for instance, aid network administrators in trying to stop the spread of a fast-moving virus by quickly providing crucial infection information, or help 911 operators send the right kind of assistance to the scene of an accident.

Bright is a cognitive computer that really understand what the user is doing and what its needs are, and based on this information it tries to anticipate our future movements. The idea is to provide people working in stressful environments a simpler way to do their job, Bright using artificial intelligence to interpret and predict future movements of people working around you. If the system will be successful or not remains to be seen, but the whole idea is very interesting.