Siri, the AI assistant in the new iPhone 4s, is getting rapturous reviews, partly because you can not only ask her about a good restaurant nearby, but, say, the meaning of life. And Siri answers like what you see at left:
All nice advice, probably coded weeks or months ago, but I'm left wanting an answer more worthy of Apple and its founder, the late Steve Jobs. So I cribbed my favorite passages from his Stanford speech, to suggest a fix above right.
On the day he died, and many of us were in deep and genuine mourning, some unknown Internet commenter said he liked to think that Steve Jobs' soul had somehow been uploaded into Siri, so it could live on there. I'd like to hope at least his wisdom can.
Hat tip: Waxy.org
That Monty Python quote isn't bad at all, but is better in the context of the eponymous movie.
Siri could reply "Forty-Two" in a majestic voice instead, I guess the Apple engineers judged that far too obvious.
Posted by: Nahasa Singh | Friday, October 14, 2011 at 05:31 AM
Steve Jobs immortal graduation speech at Stanford is copyrighted to his estate and heirs. News sources can quote him due to fair use. Using his words in a commercial venture requires getting permission from the estate's executor and paying him or her. Siri is a commercial venture. Apparently Mr. Jobs did not will the copyright on that speech to his company.
Posted by: EileenK | Monday, October 17, 2011 at 10:02 AM