Apple Job Posting Seeks Creative Individual To Breathe More Life Into Siri
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- Try all sorts of stupid things, like you would when you're chatting with an AI bot online for amusement
- Once or twice try to ask the weather, or some other trivial information that you're not sure how you could elsehow get more quickly
- Become frustrated with inaccuracy, and high chance of the information you're looking for being unavailable
- Not use Siri again, and eventually forget about it
Very, very interestingly, I did start using the Google Now app... which works more responsively, and gives tremendously better results (in my estimation). If I'm not in a public space and don't care about looking like an overzealous geek trying to talk to my phone, I use the Google app and ask very basic information.
I set alarms to remind me when I need to feed the parking meter so I often say something like "In two hours remind me to pay for parking". About 25% of the time Siri will get it right on the first try. It's pathetic. Usually it's a problem voice recognition problem ("I don't understand into hours"), but I have also had alarms not go off (apparently she didn't hear the confirmation).
I tested Google's voice recognition for the same types of queries and it nails it. In real time. If Apple ever allows users to decide what apps they want to use Google is poised to destroy Siri.
Now I just open Clock and set a timer manually. It's a little slower, but it works 100% of the time.
Erik Wolpaw, anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_diagnosed_with_u...
Or a concept artist who's done work for Disney, Konami, and Warner Brothers.
Humanizing technology must go further than simply a name and a voice.
Tim Cook needs to start spending money to address Apple's weaknesses – they don't have the talent internally, and no one with the talent wants to work there...