“Hey Siri, turn on all my alarms”
Siri, What Time Is It in London?
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#702Once I had a new assistant and I asked her to book me a flight to Boston. She went to the travel booking system, typed in Boston, then called me back confused. "Which Boston do you want? There are 8 of them?" I was caught off guard and told her I'd prefer the one in Massachusetts. I did not fire her. She was young, had a poor general education, and had never traveled outside her home state. Those things do not make h…
If she were still doing that a decade later what would your response be? We choose to hire Siri/Alexa/etc. At some point there's to be a baseline of good enough or else you fire them.
Yeah, point very much taken. Agreed.
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But if you had not worked at Google at the time, there’s basically zero chance you could’ve got anyone at the company to do anything about it.
My address has been blatantly broken in Google Maps for years now. When you enter it, for some reason it deletes the house number and just looks up the street, which ends up pointing to somewhere about a 10 minute drive away. For example, if my address was "123 Elm Street" it just ignores the "123" and searches for "Elm Street" instead. We have to give special instructions all the time to delivery drivers and other p…
Well, this can be a feature rather than a bug if you like privacy. I knew a house that was on a large, mostly wooded piece of land where Google Maps would direct you to the wrong side of the property via a dead-end street in a development. If you went there, nothing but trees for a thousand feet or maybe two. Probably at least a 10 minute drive if you actually knew the street that the driveway connected to.
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#704Siri doesn't know that my front door is called "FRONT DOOR". I only have one smart lock, which works perfectly, and it is called "FRONT DOOR" in HomeKit. When I ask Siri about my FRONT DOOR she responds that she cannot find it. When I ask Siri about the status of my DOOR, she responds with "The FRONT DOOR is locked/unlocked". I'll then say 'Alright Siri you literally just used the phrase "FRONT DOOR" five seconds ago…
About once a week Siri and I have this conversation: Me: "Siri, turn off the bedroom lights." Siri: "OK. Your 6am alarm is off." For the most part Siri works for me, with the exception of the above and her insistence on adding "ginger ale" to my grocery list as two items. /Native English speaker, specifically trained in non-regional diction because I used to work on-air in radio.
Me: "120 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius"
Siri: "Contacting emergency services in five seconds"
To be fair I was in a noisy environment and Siri only got the "120" part but seriously, why would that be okay? My phone is registered in America with an American phone number and English set as it's only language. Why should it think 120 is equivalent to 911?
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Anyone want to guess where this sign is located? https://imgur.com/XyTJHEc
As a non-American, can someone explain why there are US cities with the exact same names as cities in Europe, Egypt, Greece, etc.?
Because settlers from Europe came to America and didn't give af what the Indians called their land. So they named places after ones they knew; New York, New England, Boston.
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Reminds me of when I worked at Yahoo, for not very long in the early 2000s. Yahoo had a consumer product called My Yahoo, a customisable home page with various feeds in it, and at the time they also had a My Yahoo Enterprise Edition, which they tried to sell to companies to serve as an intranet home page. I worked (in a junior sort of way) on the European deployments of MYEE. Anyway, one of our customers - representi…
If this had happened at some of the other places I have worked, the CEO would have made all the developers stay in the office until the problem was fixed. Why did no one care?
Don't have to name them, but what kind of places are these that care? Big, small, tech, non-tech? Locations?
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#707Earlier quoted context omitted.
About once a week Siri and I have this conversation: Me: "Siri, turn off the bedroom lights." Siri: "OK. Your 6am alarm is off." For the most part Siri works for me, with the exception of the above and her insistence on adding "ginger ale" to my grocery list as two items. /Native English speaker, specifically trained in non-regional diction because I used to work on-air in radio.
Me: "120 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius" Siri: "Contacting emergency services in five seconds" To be fair I was in a noisy environment and Siri only got the "120" part but seriously, why would that be okay? My phone is registered in America with an American phone number and English set as it's only language. Why should it think 120 is equivalent to 911?
Looks like 120 is the emergency number for ambulances in China, emergency at sea in Norway, police in Guatemala, and national police in Bolivia [1]. Alternatively, maybe it interpreted "120 degrees Fahrenheit" as a body temperature reading for an extremely high fever?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_nu...
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Not only a zip code can span cities, a single city/zip can span multiple tax authorities e.g. parts of Redmond, WA zip code 98052 are under Regional Transit Authority and others are not. I think that pretty much any assumption we're making about strict hierarchy are bound to be broken at some point.
I worked with zip codes on a project. Zip codes are a nightmare. They cross everything. There are zip codes which cross state-lines. Zip codes which are not a single contiguous area of land. So many issues.
That's because zip codes aren't defined by an area, but by postal routes.
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Are they even simulating intelligence. To the parent poster's point it's really just simulated voice recognition. No intelligence even gets simulated. This is more like running cucumber scripts based on voice recognition.
It's an artificial idiot, plain and simple.
your average idiot is intelligent. your average digita assistant can barely assist and has no fingers.
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> If the person asking the question lives in Ohio, they may actually be talking about London OH (or Dublin OH). I would seriously doubt this assumption. Why on earth should someone living in a state specifically ask for the local time in a different location within that same state? On the contrary, this context information would make it much more likely that the person actually meant "London, England". Except if ther…
Flipping this around a bit: if someone in England asked "what's the time in London?" should Siri assume that they're talking about London in Ohio or Ontario? Everyone in England is on GMT, so they don't need to do timezone conversions to London time.
Pedantic: London is currently in British Summer Time, not GMT (which it is in the winter)