Friday, October 14, 2011

Talk to Siri

An early indicator that we may have something in the new iPhone 4S voice interface is that everybody is already naturally using its name, Siri, as if they'd been doing it for years.

11 comments:

Timo Lehtinen said...

I suspected Siri might now HAL, but I wonder if she knows Mother? The question is tricky, for obvious reasons.

Bruce said...

A less obvious feature of Siri is that the more you use it, the less you use Google. Apple will accumulate valuable personal data from Siri users that used to go to Google.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Ah, yeah.

Timo Lehtinen said...

If someone has iPhone 4S, please try “Do you know Mother?” And then qualify with “Mother of Nostromo”.

Timo Lehtinen said...

Apple will accumulate valuable personal data from Siri users that used to go to Google.

Excellent!

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

I've caved and ordered one. They say it'll arrive "between 19th and 26th October", very helpfully. :-)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

(Seems to be an Aliens reference?)

Timo Lehtinen said...

I am also for the first time interested in getting an iPhone. (In fact, pretty much a phone in general, as I gave away my last mobile phone in 1998.) And this is solely because of Siri!

(Seems to be an Aliens reference?)

Alien. Possibly Aliens too, but at some point in the quadrilogy they renamed the ship's on-board computer to “Father”, along with introducing many other mistakes to the story, like multiple monsters, etc.

Of course, apart from HAL and Mother, there are quite a few other fictional computers. Who knows, Siri may even know them all?

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

So you just assume that all AIs know each other? That's so racist, maaaaan.

I agree that the single alien is a much stronger image than a whole swarm of them.

Timo Lehtinen said...

Siri, though, is not fictional. And it is accessible by mere mortals. This makes it completely unique. I stand by the prediction I made on the day of the 4S announcement that this will revolutionize the industry.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Would'na be the first time.

Have you read about Siri before it came to iPhone? I just wonder what exact data make you so certain that it's well beyond previous efforts.