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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by dmd on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:45PM (#16589659)
But what none of them can do is what people actually need, which is "remind me to do X before I leave work".
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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by scarface74 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @09:28PM (#16589866)
What signal could it pick up on before you leave work besides when you get in your car or after you leave somewhere?
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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by jannyfer on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:49PM (#16590125)
Sudden increase of movement (via the accelerometer) around the time they usually leave work, for example.

If I usually leave work around 5-6 and I start packing up my bag, that could be a signal.

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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by torstenvl on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @11:11PM (#16590177)
Would you use a Markov model for this?
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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by torstenvl on Thursday March 15, 2018 @01:13PM (#16594663)
Interesting. I guess I thought that discussing how to model a software problem would be an acceptable and interesting conversation on HN. Do any of the downvoters care to contribute in a productive way? I'd be curious to hear what people found disagreeable in my question.
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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by ddingus on Thursday March 15, 2018 @12:14AM (#16590367)
It could guess and or extrapolate, based on recent data.

For a lot of people it would be effective.

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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by paulie_a on Thursday March 15, 2018 @08:06AM (#16592070)
Nest is already pretty effective at learning schedules
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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by scarface74 on Thursday March 15, 2018 @01:25PM (#16594798)
Nest doesn't have to be accurate to the minute to be effective. A reminder based on before I leave work would be.

For instance, if I don't know what time aim getting off of work and I wanted a reminder to call my wife when I got to the car, it could do that completely accurately based on phone connecting to the car. It could only guess about doing something before I left work.

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