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Siri Offers Humorous Responses to Questions About Hit Game Pokémon Go
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So at least 10-20 people at Apple are being paid to program this... So sad.
How about actually making something useful for a change?
How about actually making something useful for a change?
Forget new MacBooks. THIS is what I want Apple to work on!
I'll admit to having asked Siri questions related to Pokemon long before Pokemon Go came out. It's a handy resource if you're wondering, say, what level you can expect a Pidgey to finally evolve.
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Yeah, if it's not in Wolfram or, like, ESPN, the results are usually just a Bing search. Which is unfortunate.Meanwhile:
WTF Apple, srs? Fail.
Why not make Siri useful instead of these pointless additions? She can't do basic takes like play music that is on my phone. The most frustrating part is she even repeats what I ask for, but says she can't find anything or doesn't understand what I'm asking for! "Sorry Josh, I don't understand play album Billy Joel Greatest Hits." You just said it perfectly! Why don't you understand? Siri was so promising, but she's been so stagnant.
I will never understand all the "Siri is useless" attacks. I use Siri many dozens of times a day for incredibly useful things. It saves me tons of time. Could it do more? Sure — I guess you could ALWAYS say that, no matter how much they add. But good grief, people — we can send texts and e-mails (and have them read to us), control music and podcasts instead of having to dig for them, create calendar entries and reminders, control the lights/thermostats/etc. in our homes, and instantly have answers to all kinds of questions, from "how far is the sun from the earth?" to "how long is Star Trek Beyond?" — all without so much as pushing a button or having to look at a screen at all. You ever stop to think maybe you just like to complain?
If there's some particular feature that you find yourself needing that Siri doesn't provide but seemingly should (and I'm sure there are many), then by all means, keep filling up comment sections everywhere with your grievances; otherwise, I'm going to assume that most of the people talking about how useless Siri is in general never even try to use it.
As for silly Pokemon questions... who cares? Good for them — the fewer times we can get the "would you like me to search the web for ____?" messages, the better. It doesn't affect me, and I guarantee they aren't wasting any significant time or effort on these kinds of things.
You think so? I mean, these seem like randomized rote responses to a simple string search. A single developer from the software house I work for could probably throw something like that into a preexisting search framework in like forty minutes.
Careful Apple. Om Malik is going to blow his top! Instead of adding this to Siri, they could have cranked out a new laptop. Why doesn't Apple wake up before it's too late?
Maybe it's because I am used to talking to toddlers. Or maybe it's because I was such a science fiction nut growing up and am used to the idea of talking to AI, but I usually can get the information I need from Siri and find Siri very useful.
I ask very specific questions and using very stilted speech to break down a complex question into simple tasks for Siri. Sometimes I do a two step process asking one question and building on the first answer to refine the second question to get the answer I seek. I did this yesterday with math.
My daughter has a ton of summer math homework to do and my fraction skills were very rusty, which made checking the homework challenging for me. Using Siri, I was able to get her to calculate the fraction problem, which gave me the answer as a decimal and then I asked her to convert it to a fraction form. Thanks to Siri, I polished the rust off my brain and was able to calculate the rest and finish checking the work on my own. I was so grateful to Siri for saving me the time of looking for my old math books or wandering around the Internet.
Siri has access to enormous amounts of information but getting to it is very much like speaking to a small child. Sometimes children know a great deal but you have to know the right way to ask them if you want the answers.
I ask very specific questions and using very stilted speech to break down a complex question into simple tasks for Siri. Sometimes I do a two step process asking one question and building on the first answer to refine the second question to get the answer I seek. I did this yesterday with math.
My daughter has a ton of summer math homework to do and my fraction skills were very rusty, which made checking the homework challenging for me. Using Siri, I was able to get her to calculate the fraction problem, which gave me the answer as a decimal and then I asked her to convert it to a fraction form. Thanks to Siri, I polished the rust off my brain and was able to calculate the rest and finish checking the work on my own. I was so grateful to Siri for saving me the time of looking for my old math books or wandering around the Internet.
Siri has access to enormous amounts of information but getting to it is very much like speaking to a small child. Sometimes children know a great deal but you have to know the right way to ask them if you want the answers.
Sure - but he would probably refuse to work on this and threaten to leave for TFB or GOOG, so they (AAPL) have to take what and who is available (and willing)....
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This is why I am frustrated with Apple and Tim Cook.
Cook, Cues, and others go on interviews on damage control saying there is nothing wrong with innovation at Apple, and all is well (but don't have the products to back them up)
Macs are outdated, by all accounts September will be a disappointment with a lame Apple watch and lame iphone, siri sucks (yes to all you Apple fan boys it is too early to complain, what we pretty much know what is coming out), and Apple TV had the potential to be better than Alexa but is just a lame produc However Apple can keep making amazing new stores, wrist bands, and put jokes in Siri?
Siri is a joke compared to google now.. Jokes on Apple
Cook, Cues, and others go on interviews on damage control saying there is nothing wrong with innovation at Apple, and all is well (but don't have the products to back them up)
Macs are outdated, by all accounts September will be a disappointment with a lame Apple watch and lame iphone, siri sucks (yes to all you Apple fan boys it is too early to complain, what we pretty much know what is coming out), and Apple TV had the potential to be better than Alexa but is just a lame produc However Apple can keep making amazing new stores, wrist bands, and put jokes in Siri?
Siri is a joke compared to google now.. Jokes on Apple
These all sound like they're written by someone who doesn't have any Pokemon experience. Or my mom.
Meanwhile:
WTF Apple, srs? Fail.
Lol. Just tried it . How sad is that .
Apple can launch some lame Olympic watch bands but it cannot work out its the 2016 Olympics....on right now
"Siri is known for offering up funny responses to a range of questions."
Funny to whom? Developers? I'm not criticizing this particular type of humor except to point out that it doesn't seem particularly mainstream.
On a separate note, I have several times recently had Siri respond to a serious query with one of her purportedly "funny" answers. This is aggravating. I would prefer that Apple tone down the humor aspect and try to get her working.
Funny to whom? Developers? I'm not criticizing this particular type of humor except to point out that it doesn't seem particularly mainstream.
On a separate note, I have several times recently had Siri respond to a serious query with one of her purportedly "funny" answers. This is aggravating. I would prefer that Apple tone down the humor aspect and try to get her working.
Some truth to this. The only "funny" response Siri has ever given me was her answer to "Hey Siri: what does the fox say?"
