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Apple Highlights Ways Siri Can Get Involved in Super Bowl Sunday
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This ad campaign seems like a great idea, but asking which QB has more rushing yards is asking for a punch line.
Hé Alexa or Viv - can you assist Siri in some structural AI instead of singular per-event, prefab non-intelli fact checking ?
Wrong. The fact Apple added super bowl related commands to Siri shows they are working to improve Siri for everyday use and have a team developing commands that likely will allow for a better user experience in the coming years.
Having to add Super Bowl related commands means that Siri was unable to parse and correctly respond to what should be generic requests. I would bet that can only address very specific queries directly tied to that one event. This would be a good test.
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I wish Siri would get involved with understanding simple English first. Unless she can guarantee victory for New England, I don't care what she can do concerning the Super Bowl. Ring #5 for TB. 
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They've already had years and Siri still isn't a good user experience.
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They've already had years and Siri still isn't a good user experience.
And even then, it's a safe bet that Siri will still have no idea what you're talking about if what you said doesn't match one of maybe three or four specific sentence structures per command. If I want to do something as simple as adding a work shift to my calendar, I have to say, for example, "schedule work from 12:30 PM to 9 PM on Saturday the 4th". If I don't begin the sentence with the words "schedule work", Siri either won't know what I want her to even do, or won't know what to call the event (even if I give it a name at another point). If I don't specify PM for both times, my shift will be recorded as continuing on until 9 AM the following morning or something equally absurd, despite the context clue of the explicitly stated date. I consider myself lucky that I don't have to spell out which month said date is in. It's still quicker than going through the event-creation GUI in Calendar, but cripes almighty. Similar story for setting a reminder for a particular time — if I don't begin the sentence with the time at which I want to be reminded (before I say "remind me to"), the time invariably becomes part of the reminder's title. Siri may be handy for certain extremely specific things, but she clearly understands what she's being told about as well as a chatbot from the 1990s would.
If users have to be taught how to interact with Siri, then Siri is a fail in natural language AI.
That was like how you had to write in a special way on the old PalmOS PDAs for handwriting recognition.
If you have to speak in a special way to Siri, people are not going to be impressed.
That was like how you had to write in a special way on the old PalmOS PDAs for handwriting recognition.
If you have to speak in a special way to Siri, people are not going to be impressed.
I can't wait for the next Steve Jobs. Apple is boring the whole of me. If I didn't hate Eric Schmidt I would have moved to google years ago.
It's sad that Apple started so far ahead with Siri. The context she was capable of at the time was pretty great. Now she just seems like the slow kid in class that needs special attention. Even that kid can remember a short list of facts drilled into their head. But can that kid draw upon context clues and pull multiple bits of information together using indirect reasoning and analysis? Not without a whole lot of work, and maybe never without a brain transplant.
Siri needs this brain transplant. Maybe start fresh with a new AI, a new name, and new branding. To a lot of people I know, even middle-aged people like my boss and some of my coworkers, Siri is just an annoyance that they never use. They need to find a way to make it indispensable—along with a better brand strategy and connected smart home hub type device that manages HomeKit, general AI tasks, AirPlay, and maybe even creates or extends a WiFi network all in one.
Spot on. Compared with the competition, google's solution is so much more responsive and far better at interpreting speech/context. Siri fundamentally has had the same delays, slow infrastructure, horrible recognition since it's been born, very little change if any compared to the competition.
Finally, Apple news worthy of the front page for once
Why wouldn't It be? It's an interesting article that directly relates to Apple and Siri. Not every article has to pertain to something of your liking or preference for a main page article.
That's because it's not Siri or at least it's not tapped into Siri's vast database. It's kind of like asking about the weather in IMDB's search field. You'll never get a coherent response there either.
Siri is plain embarrassing when it comes to sport events
Put in rugby World Cup final and the top hit is 2003 ...... same happened with the olympics medal tally....while the olympics was on....forget extra features , fix the broken results first
Anything related to tv shows is ignored and you are sent to iTunes to buy the show....
Put in rugby World Cup final and the top hit is 2003 ...... same happened with the olympics medal tally....while the olympics was on....forget extra features , fix the broken results first
Anything related to tv shows is ignored and you are sent to iTunes to buy the show....
Good to see things like this being added but...
1. It's very US centric
2. It's yet another sports thing added
Hopefully Apple are also considering non-US non-sports fans.
So yes, good to see this. Well done and all.
Now please make Siri a smarter personal assistant for everyday things. Surprise us. Give us something we didn't even know we needed.
1. It's very US centric
2. It's yet another sports thing added
Hopefully Apple are also considering non-US non-sports fans.
So yes, good to see this. Well done and all.
Now please make Siri a smarter personal assistant for everyday things. Surprise us. Give us something we didn't even know we needed.
I think it has gotten a lot more accurate in understanding what I say, as in the input text matches much better, but it still can't understand many questions in the sense of parsing it, especially for many day-to-day questions.