Siri is Apple’s lovable digital assistant that comes complete with just a touch of sass. (Or if you’re an Android/Microsoft person, Google Now and/or Cortana do roughly the same thing.) Siri represents a significant investment from Apple over a number of years, and is among the world’s leading efforts in Artificial Intelligence and it’s synonyms.
Despite her best efforts, Siri doesn’t always get it right. There are (sometimes NSFW) web sites that focus on funny mishaps that Siri makes. Among other things, this is a good case study in the limitations of cutting edge AI.
Whenever I see someone talking about ultra-intelligent machines pulling an I Robot/Matrix/Terminator style takeover of the world I usually smile. Then I wonder how machines are going to pull that off when Siri can't even tell if she's screwing up trying to transcribe my text messages. Kinda like that time I told Siri "text my wife on my way home period"
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