It reminds me of when, in the early days of consumer GPS, a friend of mine was a bit shocked at my insensitive impoliteness of completely ignoring direction after direction. He thought it worked as a service where someone was personally tracking the car via satellite and sending back directions.
Google praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches
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#22I've had to become politer trying to instruct Siri as realised my children were copying my style of question. I wasn't swearing, just being sarcastic at lack of recognition and I didn't want to encourage that.
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#23My girlfriend does a similar thing with Siri. As a result, a lot of the reminders she creates on her iPhone end in "thank you". She's well aware it's a program and not a human being; I think, in her case, something about speaking a request aloud just automatically engages the politeness filters.
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#24> "she thinks that there is someone – a physical person – at Google’s headquarters who looks after the searches" And in this case there actually was a person looking after her search and replying.
Kind of reminds me of College Humor's 'If Google was a Guy' series.
Though they had Google dealing with their usual searches.
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#25It would be a nice easter egg is google responded to please and thank you in some way.
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#26That was a very nice gesture by Google. Made me smile!
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#27I had a similar experience showing someone how to use siri. I told them it could call someone for them, so they said
"Please connect me to john doe. j o h n d o e"
siri was pretty confused.
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#28I don't use please/thank you in written correspondence with computers, but I try to be polite when talking to Siri in front of my kid. Unfortunately, extra words (even pleasantries) tend to muck things up. More thoughts here: https://medium.com/@nicklum/siri-shes-no-miss-manners-600206...
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#29My girlfriend does a similar thing with Siri. As a result, a lot of the reminders she creates on her iPhone end in "thank you". She's well aware it's a program and not a human being; I think, in her case, something about speaking a request aloud just automatically engages the politeness filters.
I work on social robots and despite implementing and knowing how the system works it is still difficult to withhold a social response at times. It's pretty fun to see how our social nature is automatically applied to so many things.
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#30Well, thank YOU!!! Now I can't get a meaningful answer when I want to translate roman numerals and use a similar search. All I get are links about this grandma and her search.
I presume you're joking, but if not, just enter the Roman numerals into the search box and Google's first response will be the decimal equivalent.