Siri
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- Two Easy Pieces … somehow without acting on it”) without me having to specify, for example, “Hey Siri, hold all my calls apart from notifications about pizza delivery.” And we know that …
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … using something like Epic, and you’re potentially there already, regardless of whether Siri or whatever LLM-powered replacement comes about this year. (Never mind the fact that …
- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … There’s a bunch about “this is what Siri was supposed to be” and, you know, people aren’t wrong. We’ve been trying to get computers to …
- To help you best, I'd need to know you … But even then we'd have to come to grips with the tradeoff being if you want Alexa or Siri to be more useful then it would have …
- Success Criteria; Chat … As an aside, Siri continues to be dumb. Here is an example of what I would like Siri to be able to do, because from the point of …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … level messaging framework which it kind of has done as a backdoor through Siri and so on, so that at least there's OS-level consistent control of …
- Domestication … As Jesse Vincent points out, it's also not that helpful when turning on the lights isn't reliable , and Siri/HomeKit aren't that much helpful here …
- Things that I wish existed; HIG but not Hygge; Stages of Digital Transformation, Again; Good Enough Digital Transformation … They're marginally more reliable if I just cue up music to play on them via Siri, but what I find I'd really love would be an …
- s11hiatus05/05: umbra … Finder (duh) Siri Safari Chrome Mail Calendar Address Book Notes Messages Twitter iTunes Slack Illustrator Sketch Photoshop Terminal * I share a house with Caitlin, Tom and Amy in …
- But Where (Or How) Do You Start? … Computers that talk and gender The Computer’s Voice - From Star Trek to Siri is a book by Liz W. Faber. Caught my attention because : deconstructing the voices …
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2 … Of course, me being me, the first time I learned about Microsoft throwing a bunch of servers under water was when I wondered out loud “ Hey Siri, how …
- The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet … Hey Siri what’s an example of a disingenuous position? … because clearly the Substack Discourse had been brewing for a while now and it was time to take …
- Aren't we all just so tired … Every voice assistant is dumb , fight me (Siri on creating appointments and sending calendar invitations to people(!), not even the thing about Which London Is The Relevant London …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … remind everything that she is not a woman. ( Spoiler-filled recap video ) Alexa, Siri, “Hey Google” and Cortana (who is kind of disappearing) are the front-end interfaces …
- Snow Crashing … calls Roadkill using an elementary Siri or OK Google because “the telephone remembers” and to me, this feels like an interesting choice. I know I’m obsessing a …
- Snow Crashing … I am reminded that Apple Watches with Walkie Talkie are practically combadges and if I have tap-to-Siri on an Airpod, it is also practically a combadge …
- Stop Using Nouns … So there's Elderly Southern White Supremacist Siri, and Angry Sarcastic Scotsman Siri, and Pretentious Art Student Alexa and Bitchy Double-Entendre Making Google Assistant and Depressive Siri …
- Breaking the rules … Pretty much exactly a month ago: “ Huh, just realized a single larger AirPod you can wear with tap-for-Siri is basically a Star Trek combadge .” I tried …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … Anyway, the idea that people in the Potterverse would yell at portraits in the same way that we yell at Alexa and Siri and, uh, OK Google, was …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … my previous references) about observing my young children interact with voice UI assistants (Siri, Alexa) and now enough time has passed that there’s actual academic research! Here …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … now a) “smart”, b) connected to the internet and c) thusly Alexa/Cortana/Siri/Google-enabled. Oh and I guess maybe Bixby too? So just from the ads …
- Division by Infinity … Doesn’t this only become *practical and useful* when we’re able to substitute in usable, useful values for, *v*? (“Siri, search the web for “applied ethics”[0 …
- umbra … Finder (duh) Siri Safari Chrome Mail Calendar Address Book Notes Messages Twitter iTunes Slack Illustrator Sketch Photoshop Terminal I share a house with Caitlin, Tom and Amy in …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … I'm writing it now because I have stuff in my head that I have to get out and I tried dictating it to Siri and Jesus Christ …
- The usual: nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there … I said "The need for a cognitive exoself in today's society" and Siri heard "The need for a codependent text herself into days hunting." Siri is clearly …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet … At places like Apple, I'm reasonably sure that writers for Siri are kind-of in MarComm and less in the product side, and fall more under Schiller …
- Of Course I Still Love You … front of you", then you've got a whole bunch of "talk to Siri more" as well as *every single bit of already existing iOS app reconfigured for …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … You've got Google's cloud machine learning products[3], IBM's Watson Services[4] and, as ever, absolutely nothing that you can plug Apple or Siri services …
- Politeness … I've written about this before in terms of how social interactions with agents/characters/personalities/services like Siri, Google and Alexa are *designed*, because we have to …
- The Product Wars; Emergency _________ Hologram … But! It's the 24th century, so they have a backup, and it's a bit like Siri - literally, what with the bedside manner and all - and this …
- What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation … My son, completely unprompted, has started trying to ask Siri to "play Shake It Off" but because he's about two and a half, his enunciation is fine …
- When Things Listen; An Unproductive Argument; Process; Until It Turns Into Writing … if memory serves me correctly, Nuance also powers the speech recognition portion of Siri's architecture for Apple) to provide the interpreted data it needs to run commands …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … vast power of a near omniscient non-sentient set of ill-understood algorithms. Siri - and Cortana, for that matter - only appear when you want them to, when you …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … Not that I've got something going for Apple, but at least they had the taste to name their assistant Siri, at least something androgynous sounding. And that …
- The Difficulty … We do not have, at the moment, this level of customisation in our interaction with services like Google Now or Siri. What we do have, instead of a …
- This Inexplicable Future, Where Did All The Agents Go, Brittle … up to, at best, general purpose semantic knowledge graphs such as Wolfram Alpha. Siri and Google Now are not, in any way, going to fool us into thinking …
- Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript … a) For a certain group of people, hearing British Siri makes them want to punch British Siri in the face, no matter how useful he may be; b …