• Microsoft's answer to Siri unveiled
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[QUOTE=TurboSax;44436377]Well, look on the not-so-bright-but-still-positive-side: Even if "Cortana" bombs harder than ever, it'll still get us one itty-bitty-baby-step closer to having a voice-controlled assistant program that's actually competent. For every failure, there's always someone who looks at it and says, "I can do better." We gotta slog through the shitty years of this technology before we can get to the good versions. That's how it usually works, start off with some shit, refine it into gold piece by piece.[/QUOTE] Following that logic, Apple Maps was a good move.
[QUOTE=Nick Nack;44436381]Following that logic, Apple Maps was a good move.[/QUOTE] Considering that Google Maps had already been out and marvelously-functional for a good while before the Apple version, it's just a little bit different. Google Maps had already pretty much done the innovating, Apple Maps was just a shoddy attempt at the same innovation made when no such attempt was necessary. That doesn't mean its failure couldn't inspire others to outdo it, it just means it was already outdone before it even existed. Besides, I never said releasing a product that bombs was a good move. I'm just saying that someone could learn from the mistakes of the product that bombed. The company who shat it out is still screwed at the end of the day, but outside parties could look at their mistakes and learn from them, or maybe even the company itself could learn and try again.
Isn't this old news? I remember hearing it about a year ago. That or I am a time traveler.
[QUOTE=Panda X;44433590]I always find it humorous when people keep trying to use voice controls and it gets it wrong. "Call Bill" "Playing Call Me" "No, Call Bill" "I'm sorry I didn't understand" "Call.......Bill" "Calling Jill" "No call Bill" After a while you realize had they just hit Bill and hit call they would have finished the phone call by this point.[/QUOTE] This shouldn't really happen with modern voice control unless you have a really strong accent
[QUOTE=Map in a box;44431534]Google Now is like the most competent of all these services. It's not a gross broken conglomeration of cloud computed "AI", just a simple knowledge engine and productivity tool, which is what all these awful Siri alternatives should be[/QUOTE] When Google now was in early public releases, it had a hard time trying to recognise my Australian accent so I had to talk like a dumb fuck Southern American to make it understand me (which looked ridiculous in public and at home)
[QUOTE=tom1029;44431359]Why? I literally never see anyone actually using Siri/equivalent. Nobody really uses it, it's just a dick waving competition for phone companies. I actually do occasionally use google now to set alarms but it still seems like a massive waste of resources for companies to keep making stuff like this.[/QUOTE] I use Siri a lot. Easy for navigation while driving, selecting a specific song, stuff like that. Fastest way to set appointments and reminders, alarms too. I like it
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;44437733]When Google now was in early public releases, it had a hard time trying to recognise my Australian accent so I had to talk like a dumb fuck Southern American to make it understand me (which looked ridiculous in public and at home)[/QUOTE] Google Now is scary. I was at home with work starting soon when I got a Now notice that read; "Time till work: 15 minutes light traffic." I never posted anywhere where my work was or the schedule :tinfoil:
dat GPS [editline]3rd April 2014[/editline] It knows where I live, where my parents live, and where I work. :tinfoil:
Why can't they just call it "Computer", like in Star Trek.
[QUOTE=V12US;44438241]Why can't they just call it "Computer", like in Star Trek.[/QUOTE] Google's hotword detection actually recognises Ok Computer it once also recognised "Oi Google" when I got pissed off
[QUOTE=Novangel;44437909]Google Now is scary. I was at home with work starting soon when I got a Now notice that read; "Time till work: 15 minutes light traffic." I never posted anywhere where my work was or the schedule :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] Google Now is some freaky shit. That thing automatically set my school as "work" and home as home. Then, the last time I went traveling it showed "2hr 15mins to [Hotel I booked at]" right after booting up the phone on the plane. I never even searched for the hotel on Maps.
[QUOTE=V12US;44438241]Why can't they just call it "Computer", like in Star Trek.[/QUOTE] ..or HAL.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;44438340]..or HAL.[/QUOTE] But then if you told it a secret it would try to kill you. And if you asked it for directions it would kill you. And if you played a chess game with it it would kill you. And in any other situation it would kill you.
As stupid as it is to name it Cortana, the Bungie fanboy in me loves it :v:
It's actually pretty creepy considering that Cortana is a direct copy of Halsey's brain and personality, which means it does everything a human does but is confined to a single network or piece of hardware. So imagine for one thing that you are trapped to a single, Microsoft run confined space for eternity (being the phone) and that on every phone there are exact clones of you. Think of what damage that would do to a persons psyche. No sense of individuality, no sense of freedom. And on top of that you can never truly die unless you are destroyed or emped. You only would gradually get less and less sane because of age. And this isn't even covering any of the stuff that happens to AI in Red Vs Blue. I dunno maybe I'm reading too much into this? But the whole concept of if it was actually a halo type AI is really interesting to me.
I'm gonna be dissapointed if they don't add a microsoft sam voice option
Whenever i see the title i thing of the [i]other[/i] Siri. I guess my mind has been tainted by the net.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;44433543]I actually use voice for Google now a lot and it works great. Especially when I'm drunk.[/QUOTE] It's the only thing that can understand me when I'm drunk aside from other drunk people.
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