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Apple's Siri Learns New Jokes
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Canned responses to specific inputs doth hardly competent AI make.
What a sad statement. I new thread boasting new jokes added to Siri's functionality. What a "Joke." 
These new jokes please me.
I welcome any opportunity to laugh out loud.
And to find delight.
I welcome any opportunity to laugh out loud.
And to find delight.
Be careful, that is Apple only reason to exist these days. Children are the only people willing to spend money on Apple's low performing, thin, awkward to use products. Since Apple products are now a fashion statement that people have to own just because its Apple, there is no need for Apple to create any more leading edge products. It would be a waste of profit for the shareholders.
Stupid jokes don’t impress me. She needs a lot of real work, not superficial crap like knock knock jokes. How about they make her list businesses in ascending order by distance when I ask for a business location? Google has been able to do that for almost a decade. Maybe make my Series 3 watch be able to send my current location if I say “Send (contact name) my current location”? That seems doable and logical. How about working harder to ensure that Siri actually knows about local businesses? In the metro area of almost a million where I live there are major restaurants that have been here multiple decades that Siri is not even aware exist. I love it when I am in my car and I say “Navigate to woodys smoke shack” and Siri offers directions to a restaurant with a different name more than 1000 miles away. Or when Siri thinks that “Kyle’s Bikes” is “Flix Brewhouse”. This sort of thing happens probably at least 30% of the time when I use Siri for anything that would actually make her useful.
I wish they would just kill Siri and use Google honestly. iOS is superior to Android in every way that has no Siri tie in. But Siri is weak and more of a point of frustration than a feature.
Maybe they should add the ability to prefix every question like this: “Hey Siri, ask Google,” and then ask whatever thing you want to know and let her ask Google. Then Siri could have snarky replies and tell jokes directly, but use Google to get real information since Siri is mainly useless.
I wish they would just kill Siri and use Google honestly. iOS is superior to Android in every way that has no Siri tie in. But Siri is weak and more of a point of frustration than a feature.
Maybe they should add the ability to prefix every question like this: “Hey Siri, ask Google,” and then ask whatever thing you want to know and let her ask Google. Then Siri could have snarky replies and tell jokes directly, but use Google to get real information since Siri is mainly useless.
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I asked Siri :Give me directions to the nearest pizza shop." She responded "One option I see is Pizza Shop, witch is 4,200 miles from you." It was in a completely different country
Sort of related, but I thought I would throw it in here.
We (especially my 5 year old son) do use the joke feature on our Google Home a fair bit. And the other day I tried something neat. I kept asking Google Assistant about Siri. "Do you like Siri?" "Is Siri a good assistant?" "What do you think of Siri?" Anyway, it was interesting how polite Google Assistant is about Siri, continually praising her, understanding "how busy she is" and "how being an assistant is a lot of work". I appreciated Google put the polite respect in there to such an extent. Apple probably did the same. In the end I was convinced they were great friends, and I felt kind of odd lying my iPhone down next to the Google Home last night. Half expected to have three devices in the morning!. (Bizarre world we live in).
We (especially my 5 year old son) do use the joke feature on our Google Home a fair bit. And the other day I tried something neat. I kept asking Google Assistant about Siri. "Do you like Siri?" "Is Siri a good assistant?" "What do you think of Siri?" Anyway, it was interesting how polite Google Assistant is about Siri, continually praising her, understanding "how busy she is" and "how being an assistant is a lot of work". I appreciated Google put the polite respect in there to such an extent. Apple probably did the same. In the end I was convinced they were great friends, and I felt kind of odd lying my iPhone down next to the Google Home last night. Half expected to have three devices in the morning!. (Bizarre world we live in).
Although pretty cool, these cheeky little things aren't going to sell me a Home Pod, Apple. And they're not going to make me want to re-enable Siri on my iPhone either. Ok maybe I'll test it out for a second and then disable again.
I'd prefer Siri without any sense of humor. For example, when I set a timer, just say "set", "ok" or "done" -- not one of half dozen semi-cute, long replies like "Roger that. T-minus 10 minutes and counting". The cute responses were fun for about 5 minutes back in 2011. Siri needs to get down to actual business, in all respects.
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I just tried this (from the USA) and it also tried sending me to "Pizza Shop" --- in Europe. SMH
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I just tried this (from the USA) and it also tried sending me to "Pizza Shop" --- in Europe. SMH
All this does is bug me.
How about learning how to add a reminder if I don't have a data connection?
How about learning how to add a reminder if I don't have a data connection?
The user privacy canard doesn't explain why the voice recognition itself has gotten so bad. Like most of apples recent offerings this is form over function. If I were Tim Cook, I'd ban any new Siri fluff until it actually works.
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Yes! Please give us a setting to turn off the 'personality'. Continent aware responses would also be helpful
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Yes! Please give us a setting to turn off the 'personality'. Continent aware responses would also be helpful
Homepod sales have face planted mostly because of Siri. So what does Apple do?
Add more jokes for Siri!?!? They aren't getting it...
Add more jokes for Siri!?!? They aren't getting it...
OMG... I don't even know where to start. Good thing Alexa is so helpful (my use-case only, YMMV).
That's great she knows more jokes a 7 year old would love but how about making her an actual personal assistant that WORKS instead of a personal joke teller?
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Google Assistant for the win. In fact, I tell SIRI to open Google Assistant. That seems to be the one thing she does well.
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Google Assistant for the win. In fact, I tell SIRI to open Google Assistant. That seems to be the one thing she does well.
Siri’s cutesy responses are a thorn in my side. Nothing is more irritating than having an incompetent assistant who thinks his/her jokes will compensate for the blunders and inefficiency. And a cute comment doesn’t improve the more it’s repeated.
I don't think it needs personal user info to get better. It already has my location if I'm asking for a business. And I'm asking Apple essentially, not a third party needing to access it. So my data is already there for Apple to see. Same with asking for information she will find online. This is not something that sharing my personal information is required, yet she gets it right about 30-40% of the time...and I'm being generous.
I'm good with them keeping my info safe, but SIRI could be so much better and in many areas not needing my personal info.
Oh man this is awesome. I mean, it isn't like that they need to invest time elsewhere, like getting Siri to just handle my home automation like by Amazon Echo does, supporting continuity of subject across multiple requests, etc.