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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by t-shaped on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:59AM (#23270722)
All of these situations are fairly complicated. So the best thing to do ( even for a human assistant ) is to ask more questions. That is the best way to get clarification rather than just trying to figure out what the context is. The assistant should be able to ask a simple question: "Are you talking about the London in UK or Ohio?"
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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by djaouen on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:12AM (#23270808)
The problem is, for some subset of people, the question is ambiguous. Thus we can reduce the problem to finding that subset and asking additional questions only in those cases.
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