Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by giancarlostoro on Friday May 22, 2020 @05:26PM (#23277252)

> you can't have a conversation about your conversation with them and improve their comprehension of anything. It's like talking to a command line, or those old Palm Pilots you had to learn a special alphabet to scribble on.

Which is why I have no confidence calling it AI if its not even intelligent. Its just voice recognition on preprogrammed operations.

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by ratsmack on Friday May 22, 2020 @05:35PM (#23277325)

>Which is why I have no confidence calling it AI...

That's because it really should be called Simulated Intelligence, and would be a much more accurate description. The marketing team wouldn't like this though.

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by ajmurmann on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:04PM (#23278078)

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.

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by swinglock on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:50PM (#23278439)

It's an artificial idiot, plain and simple.

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by ferzul on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:38PM (#23278705)

your average idiot is intelligent. your average digita assistant can barely assist and has no fingers.

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