Siri Is Stuffed With Hilarious Easter Eggs

[evo_9]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/siri-is-stuffed-with-hilarious-easter-eggs/

[TechStuff]

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.

[nQuo]

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

[ronnoch]

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.

[Skroob → ronnoch]

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.