OMG, are they nuts, again M$ thinks they know what is best again and will attempt to make product which seem to know what you want. Really, how many people you know, know what they want at any given time of the day. Most people walk around in a fog and ignorant bliss. Somehow M$ is going o make sense of a human and predict what they want to do and just make it happen before they type, talk or gesture.
Does anybody ever get curious if, whenever you give Siri a command, which she executes, which is then followed up by an exclamation from yourself like, 'For f*cks sake!', or 'What the f*ck?', or 'You f*cking moron!' whether that is then secretly submitted back to Apple as negative feedback for the improvement of it?
I hope so along with detecting frustration and anger in the way your asking it to do something. Adding an event called "work Christmas party" that wasn't on Christmas day seemed totally beyond her.
AI will be a real breakthrough when a person can mention something that vaguely references a conversation from weeks, months or years prior. At that point AI replaces assistants, secretaries and hired professionals.
Nah, AI will never replace any of them - At least until it knows when, where, and why it shouldn't bring up or remind people of conversations, events, transgressions, etc. "from weeks, months or years prior"
Does Siri understand commands that are said as part of context? E.g. Asking for a list of restaurants and then asking which take reservations and it knowing that your still talking about the list of restaurants. I didn't think it did, article seems to suggest otherwise though.
Yes, Siri has had this ability since last year. To test I searched for a restaurant she brought up a list. I said take me to the closest one. She opened maps and plotted a course to the closest.
I don't know about this Cortana but I have both Siri and Google Now on my iPhone and the latter understands my questions correctly far more often than the former unfortunately, to the point now that I barely use Siri at all.
Gestures has only ever been a UI paradigm in the fantasies of Microsoft executives
Does anyone else here find this vision of the future as utterly revolting as I do?
yes. Quite honestly this whole internet of things and sensor mania seems to be getting out of control. Like refrigerators that know when you're out of something and automatically reorder it for you and have it sent to your house. I'm not interested in a Jetsons like universe.
My sentiments, too. For how many decades have nerds drooled over smart fridges?
Yes, Siri has had this ability since last year. To test I searched for a restaurant she brought up a list. I said take me to the closest one. She opened maps and plotted a course to the closest.
I tested Siri for the original poster's remarks and saw Siri understand the context of the questions. Before responding I read your post and tested Siri for it. Siri did as you wrote. What I found interesting was the restaurants with reservations list had been onscreen for two minutes or so before I asked for the closest restaurant.
I have no doubt Siri still has a long way to go, but which company doing similar things do not?
With the push, dubbed "UI.Next," Microsoft is pursuing a future in which users do not need to tell their device what to do -- by touching or speaking to it, for instance -- and instead passively consume information that the device has already prepared in anticipation of their needs.
The new Clippy, yet even more invasive. Sounds like a winner.
"I speak to Cortana, Cortana responds. I speak back to it, and it understands that we're still in the same conversation. It knows from the first sentence I said what I'm referring to," she said. "That seems like such a small thing for human beings, but it's huge."
When true, MS will be 100 times bigger than Apple.
LOL. Is that you, Peter Bright? And did you touch yourself when you said that?
I tested Siri for the original poster's remarks and saw Siri understand the context of the questions. Before responding I read your post and tested Siri for it. Siri did as you wrote. What I found interesting was the restaurants with reservations list had been onscreen for two minutes or so before I asked for the closest restaurant.
I have no doubt Siri still has a long way to go, but which company doing similar things do not?
Because he was a two-faced, murderous, son-of-a-bitch.
Now you know how I always enjoy your prickly, provocative point of view, but I just can't let this one pass, not in this context.
HAL is the tragic figure in Clarke's and Kubrick's drama, a victim of bad programming by his duplicitous American handlers. On the one hand he's designed to sense and report on the absolute reality of everything going on around him. On the other hand, he's been told to keep the reason for the mission a secret from the crew.
Unsolvable dilemma! A human could just sweep it under the rug mentally, put it where he puts all his denials. An honest computer will go insane.
A lesson for us all. This is why the New York critics hated the movie. They didn't see the anti-technocratic, anti-American satire, because they lived in the nerve center of imperial America. But Clarke the ex-pat Brit and Kubrick the ex-pat Yank had a lot of fun with this satire throughout the movie, like when Dr. Floyd comments on how "real" the fake ham sandwiches are on the way to visit the monolith on the Moon.
I've often thought that HAL needs his own PR makeover campaign.
Eventually they should. What better way to interact with the user than also with emotions? I think the best way Apple could do it is by using emoticons. It's so simple that it fits Apple perfectly. People use them a lot, and they are universal. :-)
Apple certainly needs to make their heuristics and data detecting systems much better. At a glance information like in Google Now is the future. There is still a lot to do in this department, so I'm sure they'll be part of the innovators on that.
Cortana... I find her voice aggressive, I don't know if it's only the recordings in the videos that show it that do that.
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Does anybody ever get curious if, whenever you give Siri a command, which she executes, which is then followed up by an exclamation from yourself like, 'For f*cks sake!', or 'What the f*ck?', or 'You f*cking moron!' whether that is then secretly submitted back to Apple as negative feedback for the improvement of it?
I hope so along with detecting frustration and anger in the way your asking it to do something. Adding an event called "work Christmas party" that wasn't on Christmas day seemed totally beyond her.
AI will be a real breakthrough when a person can mention something that vaguely references a conversation from weeks, months or years prior. At that point AI replaces assistants, secretaries and hired professionals.
Nah, AI will never replace any of them - At least until it knows when, where, and why it shouldn't bring up or remind people of conversations, events, transgressions, etc. "from weeks, months or years prior"
I don't know about anyone else, but MS user interfaces are already invisible to me. I simply don't use them! It's been the best thing I've ever done.
MS can talk all they like.
Meanwhile their entire mobile strategy barely has any traction in the market.
Yes.
My sentiments, too. For how many decades have nerds drooled over smart fridges?
Hide bodies? I haven't yet murdered anyone, so I haven't come across this deleted feature.
I tested Siri for the original poster's remarks and saw Siri understand the context of the questions. Before responding I read your post and tested Siri for it. Siri did as you wrote. What I found interesting was the restaurants with reservations list had been onscreen for two minutes or so before I asked for the closest restaurant.
I have no doubt Siri still has a long way to go, but which company doing similar things do not?
Anyone notice siri wont help you hide bodies anymore? She responds with " i used to know this"
Alternatively she will answer "It can be done in plain sight - Check out 'My Weekend at Bernies' in the iTunes Store"
Quote:With the push, dubbed "UI.Next," Microsoft is pursuing a future in which users do not need to tell their device what to do -- by touching or speaking to it, for instance -- and instead passively consume information that the device has already prepared in anticipation of their needs.
The new Clippy, yet even more invasive. Sounds like a winner.
LOL. Is that you, Peter Bright? And did you touch yourself when you said that?
Oh dear…
Cortana is just Clippy with breasts, isn’t it?
Now you know how I always enjoy your prickly, provocative point of view, but I just can't let this one pass, not in this context.
HAL is the tragic figure in Clarke's and Kubrick's drama, a victim of bad programming by his duplicitous American handlers. On the one hand he's designed to sense and report on the absolute reality of everything going on around him. On the other hand, he's been told to keep the reason for the mission a secret from the crew.
Unsolvable dilemma! A human could just sweep it under the rug mentally, put it where he puts all his denials. An honest computer will go insane.
A lesson for us all. This is why the New York critics hated the movie. They didn't see the anti-technocratic, anti-American satire, because they lived in the nerve center of imperial America. But Clarke the ex-pat Brit and Kubrick the ex-pat Yank had a lot of fun with this satire throughout the movie, like when Dr. Floyd comments on how "real" the fake ham sandwiches are on the way to visit the monolith on the Moon.
I've often thought that HAL needs his own PR makeover campaign.
I wonder if they will ever give Siri a face?
Eventually they should. What better way to interact with the user than also with emotions? I think the best way Apple could do it is by using emoticons. It's so simple that it fits Apple perfectly. People use them a lot, and they are universal. :-)
Apple certainly needs to make their heuristics and data detecting systems much better. At a glance information like in Google Now is the future. There is still a lot to do in this department, so I'm sure they'll be part of the innovators on that.
Cortana... I find her voice aggressive, I don't know if it's only the recordings in the videos that show it that do that.