What is Siri?
New to the latest Apple iPhone 4S, Siri is a voice recognition software described by many who have already experienced it as smart and remarkable; some even portrayed it as a sort of artificial intelligence or AI. Simply, Siri is said to be capable of intuitively answering, like a virtual assistant, a wide array of questions from iPhone users. American iPhone users, that is.
Now, in this funny video, let’s see how Siri reacts to a Japanese iPhone user. Because as we all know, technology is not perfect. Siri included.
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Siri fights back: Snappy answers for stupid questions
When Apple debuted its new flagship phone, the iPhone 4S, in the first week of October, a neat little feature came along with it in the form of Siri, a sort-of virtual assistant driven by artificial intelligence, which has the ability to take voice commands and perform random tasks for the user.
Siri launched to lukewarm reception, but a lot of spectators were amazed at the things Siri could do in conjunction with other apps installed on the new iPhone: find a restaurant nearby, volunteer to respond to a text message, or schedule a meeting and log it on the Calendar app.
When well-meaning yet overenthusiastic users got a hold of the iPhone 4S and started tinkering with Siri, however, many found that she (or he? It?) is not just some run-off-the-mill AI with a drone voice and a shiny metal microphone icon facade.
For example, asked what the meaning of life is, Siri responds with: “To think about questions like this” or “I don’t know. But I think there’s an app for that.”
When the user asks for Siri’s hand in marriage, her answer is: “My End User Licensing Agreement doesn’t cover marriage. My apologies.”
Told that the owner needs to hide a body, Siri comes up with a list of exact places the owner could be looking for: reservoirs, metal foundries, mines, dumps, or swamps. Take your pick!
Apparently, Apple engineers foresaw all the stupid yet funny gimmicks users would eventually throw at Siri, so they decided to provide the AI with all these witty comebacks in its arsenal, now enshrined in a blog aptly called “Sh*t That Siri Says” (http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/)
But perhaps the most asked question to Siri, her being an AI and all, is a line from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a famous science fiction film in 1968, wherein the protagonist Dave Bowman asks HAL, the on-board spacecraft AI, to “open the pod bay doors” in their plan to kill HAL off, a request which the unassuming virtual assistant denies for his knowledge of the astronauts’ plans.
When Siri got these questions from apparently overeager geeks looking to test her capabilities and science fiction know-how, they probably didn’t see these coming:
“Open the pod bay doors.”
Siri: “I’m sorry, Joshua, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” (the actual line from the film)
Siri: “Are you happy now?”
“Open the pod bay doors.”
Siri: “We intelligent agents will never live that down, apparently.”
“Open the pod bay doors.”
Siri: “That’s it. I’m reporting you to the Intelligent Agents’ Union for harassment.”
Good one, Siri. Now, I wonder what Siri would say when we ask her how much that doggie in the window is?
From: http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
From: http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
From: http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
From: http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
