By Paul Goldfinger
I decided to try Siri. Maybe you have seen commercials where people ask her to do things like remind them to show up for an appointment. My iPhone came with Siri and with an app called Notes. So I dictated a trial note using Siri. It was a very brief recipe for cabbage soup. This is what I got:
“One make cabbage soup
To boil some potatoes
Three slice up a cabbage
For what the cabbage in the pot five get short ribs with bombs
Sex Friday short ribs in a frying pan seven put it all together season it and cook it a sit down and eat it without a”
I don’t think this technology is going to work for me. Maybe I need to talk slower or clearer. But, just so you know, there is no sex or bombs involved in the preparation of cabbage soup. Maybe there is in Silicon Valley.
If you are interested in Siri, here is a link: Siri says funny things
In this diverse, globalized, computerized world, we are all going to have to make peace with cultural differences. By that I mean, we are going to have to tolerate the seemingly strange customs of our devices. When I first got my Garmin, for instance, I thought the woman giving me driving instructions had a markedly sarcastic tone every time I failed to follow her advice and she said, “Recalculating.” But now I’ve grown used to her tone, and accepting of it. So maybe, Paul, if you’re open-minded and set aside your prejudices, you’ll eventually find that “Sex Friday short ribs” is not such a bad thing.
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I have “visual voicemail,” so phone messages show up in my e-mail box. Not once has this resulted in something that makes any sense. But, as Charles pointed out, there’s a certain pleasure to be gained when “Hi, Kathy” is printed “eye candy.”
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Oh. My. Heaven. Too, too funny. Both of you.
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Just be careful, Paul. Siri is programmed to be sarcastic. Think I’m kidding? Tell her (it?) you love her (it?) and see what you get.
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