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About the apostrophe, I literally ask her the same question using a slightly different possessive form and she messed up...…continued…
She didn't use a number. She said one moment, but I never heard back from her.
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Oh really? I guess I'll go there!
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Siri, not sure when the next Super Bowl 44 is, even though that doesn't make sense and I didn't ask her.
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So she didn't understand this:
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And yet understood this:
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Did you spot the difference? She added, on her own, an apostrophe. Then she didn't understand the query with an apostrophe, and wasn't smart enough to realize that I have something named that without the apostrophe. If I remember right this happened multiple times and I eventually renamed it "Studio Desk Light" even though multiple lights are connected to the switch.
I mean, Siri is definitely getting better over the years, but when she is bad, she is really bad. And it's not saying much when you start out from such a low place.
The main barrier for me in using any personal assistants is their ability in recognizing my voice commands. If they don’t recognize my voice commands 99% of a time, it became frustrating. This is the biggest hurdle imo. You cannot be just 70 or 80% accurate.I disagree. Queries like the one highlighted in the article don't require extraordinary data collection. In fact Siri did well in the Loop Ventures questionnaire in categories that would be adversely affected by privacy and limited data collection.
Preach, I try it every new device for about a 1/2 hours, Facepalm at the stupidity and turn if off. Last attempt was about 2 weeks ago with a brand new Xr for the other half. Just ridiculously flawed. If you provide all the necessary data, it should be able to do simple searches.
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If you have ever complained about Siri on Twitter or likewise, your feedback could actually make its way to Apple executives.
A recent Apple job listing seeks an engineering program manager to "monitor what the world is saying about Siri through social media, news, and other sources." This will include detecting "Siri issues that are going viral or otherwise trending" and reporting them to the Siri team and its leadership.
Based on user feedback, the employee will be required to provide recommendations for next steps on areas where the Siri user experience could be improved. The person will also work with Apple's marketing teams to ensure external information like Apple support documents are updated to clear up misunderstandings.
The employee will have a secondary responsibility of working alongside Siri software engineers to ensure the success of Apple marketing campaigns, press events, product announcements, and product launches involving Siri.
As noted by VentureBeat, which first discovered the job listing, the employee will be able to "drive rapid-response solutions," hopefully meaning the company will quickly address any trending issues before they become embarrassing headlines like the major FaceTime privacy bug unearthed in late January.
Any improvements to Siri would be welcomed, as the assistant is widely considered to have fallen behind its rivals Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Siri has already shown some signs of progress lately under the leadership of Apple's recently promoted artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea.
Article Link: Apple Seeking Analyst to Monitor Siri Complaints Trending on Social Media
I don’t find any difference in understanding me between Siri and the google assistant. The difference for me is that the google assistant is just a lot better because it can do a lot more.The fact that this job has to exist seems to be an admission by Apple that the ways they've been testing Siri internally don't mimic how normal people interact with Siri. They've finally realized something that most of us on this board have known for years.
As someone who also uses Google Home products, I'm amazed how I can sometimes say something to Google Home that doesn't come out exactly the way I meant to say it yet somehow, it manages to understand what I meant to say and it gives me the information I needed. Looks like Apple's trying to get there with Siri, too. I guess monitoring social media for screenshots of Siri screwups is one way to do that. It doesn't seem like a particularly efficient method, though.
I still don’t think it’s unreasonable for Siri not to know which queen you are talking about. There are many Queen’s in the world. However my google home got it right.View attachment 824626 I posted a thread here 2 and a half years ago as to Siri not being able to answer the simple question ‘How old is The Queen?’
I’m English, in England, with my Apple account registered in England, with my Apple products in England. Siri knows this and fires up location services just to confirm.
The question is asked in the present tense and there is only one answer any British person is looking for when asking that question. (i.e. the age of the current Queen of England).
Alas, Siri still insists on giving the age at death of the long dead Queen Victoria (although seems to get it right for people outside the U.K).
It’s absolutely pathetic that this hasn’t been improved in 2.5 years. I’ll check back in another 2.5 years.
The Queen is 92 btw.
I still don’t think it’s unreasonable for Siri not to know which queen you are talking about. There are many Queen’s in the world. However my google home got it right.
Siri isn’t at the point yet that they need to worry about data collection, they need to worry about the basics again. It’s not that Siri can’t handle complex queries, it’s that she sometimes can’t handle the simplest queries. Simple searches, adding to lists or reminders, finding a contact. I’ve had Siri fail at all of those in the last 3 months.+1000. As frustratingly outdated as Siri is I'd rather wait for secure and privacy-conscious updates than the ******** that is Amazon/Google data collection. They seem to be pivoting Siri slightly to a workflow model via Shortcuts but that's not what 90% of people think they want right now.
That would be a real breakthrough. A voice assistant that can misunderstand what you say in multiple languages.Also, I hope Siri can be multilingual, or at least have the ability to change the language easily (like the keyboard).
Time to hire engineers to fix or recreate Siri
It will be extremely hard (or slow) to improve Siri without Google-like data collection practices.
I do hope Siri to get better. The race is still early, and as good as Google assistant is, it's still not that good.
Also, I hope Siri can be multilingual, or at least have the ability to change the language easily (like the keyboard).
You clearly got a brain modeled after siriSiri has improved a great deal and most of the people criticizing it need to update their "Siri Sucks" software.