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Siri Is Stuffed With Hilarious Easter Eggs (wired.com)
38 points by evo_9 on Oct 13, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



The original is here: http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/12/siri-weird-things-iphone-...

I'm sure the joke responses are deliberate, just as Infocom text adventure games were programmed to be 'smart' enough to respond to predictable human input.


I posted to Quora yesterday to find out who exactly (besides Wolfram Alpha) is behind Siri's impressive sense of humor.

http://t.co/Z3aCe1sm


I can't help but think it's more likely that these images are faked than that Apple actually designed Siri to recommend escort services.


It's not like they had a bunch of people sitting around a conference table thinking up the phrases people might ask it. It's a natural language parsing engine; it understands "horny" as sex, and pulled up related Yelp listings.




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