Did Apple Spill The Beans On Its New Voice Assistant Product 24 Years Ago?
from the not-really,-but... dept
This one is just amusing -- so please don't try to pull any sort of "serious" statement out of it. Apple announced its voice activated Siri assistant feature, which is a bit more advanced than similar attempts at this kind of thing:Back in 1987, Apple put out this video showing a future with a tablet-based virtual assistant called the Knowledge Navigator:
Based on the dates mentioned in the Knowledge Navigator video, it takes place on September 16, 2011. The date on the professor's calendar is September 16, and he's looking for a 2006 paper written "about five years ago," setting the year as 2011.Nicely done, Apple of the past.
And this morning, at the iPhone keynote, Apple announced Siri, a natural language-based voice assistant, would be built into iOS 5 and a core part of the new iPhone 4S.
So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off.
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so let me get this straight. you've decided to go with android because apple have added an app to iOS that you don't have to use? well, that makes loads of sense!
you're living up to your name with that kind of backwards thinking. where i come from a 'dobber' isn't something you'd want to be called, it means dick but with the added implication of being as intelligent as one.
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These systems are the most useless ideas ever.
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I understand that Apple's way has great appeal to people who want their machine to be an appliance that requires no thought or attention. However, there are those such as myself who want to use the machine as a computer and not have a Big Brother limiting access to the system (by software or humans) For Our Own Good.
My point is that you state your FTFY as if you are pointing out a fault in Android. You are not. You are pointing out a side-effect of a very valuable feature of Android.
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When A Company Starts Litigating, It Stops Innovating
Expect Apple�s legendary cash reserves (and profit margin) to disappear rapidly down this plughole. Who will rescue the company this time?
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making sure there's money to pay for it? not so much.
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DON'T. USE. THEM.
See how easy that was?
But the hands-free dialing, directions, messaging, reminders, timers, weather reports, and so on look to me like they could be very useful when you're driving, walking, when your phone's in your coat pocket, or when your hands are otherwise occupied (like the kitchen timer demo, perverts).
I rarely use the existing iPhone's Voice Control feature. But when I do, I'm glad it's there. Siri looks to be a lot better.
And that's just the beginning of the services they're going to offer.
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you do realise that, right?
kinda significant.
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beep beep... okay.
Siri, Make those people stop staring at me talking at full volume to you.
beep beep... okay, trunk monkey deployed.
Siri, This movie bores me, how can I make other people hate it to?
beep beep... The killer is Catherine...done.
Siri, explain to me how it is ok for Apple to make something like someone else made, but if someone makes something like what Apple makes its worthy of a lawsuit?
beep beep... Our lawyers on on the way to sue you out of existence.
While I expect there might be limited real world need for this, ummm this is not the hype we were expecting.
You had one of your people threaten a US citizen of Mexican decent with deportation and more harassment because you lost a prototype... of this...
Siri, mark the date as the day the Apple reality distortion field failed.
beep beep... I'm afraid I can't do that TAC.
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That's because the reality distortion field doesn't belong to Apple. It belongs to Jobs. Without him, they're just another tech company.
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Seriously?
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And if they had added an avatar it would have been a smooth rounded clippy.
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which replaced the old system.
the old system was nice. bog standard 'square image of your choosing' deal.
you could (and many people did!) by shiny awesome new ones, or get them on bonus preorder discs for games, or what have you.
so, yeah... all those nice non-refundable shinies you payed for?
system update.
they no longer exist. you get these crappy puppet things instead.
oh, those wallpapers (actually entire themes) we made you Pay Money For? those ones that were all designed based on our icons and things being in certain places? yeah, we're going to compleatly redo the interface so the only part of those you can see is the BLANK part designed for the ICONS TO GO ON ... the rest is going to be covered up by a white Desk that we now put the icons on. congratulations.
(... that was the worst jump, but it's got worse since.)
not as bad as sony's other OS disaster, but pretty bad.
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But will Apple add REAL multitasking? and a easy way to root the device?
1) Will apple add REAL multitasking, not the "we don't want you to actually run multiple apps at once, so we fake it" (Android ran _upto_ {It still does some fancy 'faking it' when resources are low on the device, but when not, they actually run concurrently} 6 applications at 1.0 launch)
2) Will Apple devices have a way to press external buttons to load the boot loader on boot up like other device manf. have?
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Does it work in the wild?
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i remember seeing a video that gave a prime example of how bad that could be.
there was at least one major example that was so baffled by the NZ accent that, if memory serves, they had to release a separate version that could compensate... (unfortunately neither my memory nor google-skills are sufficiant to the task of finding and linking that in a time frame smaller than the point at which it's really, REALLY not worth my time.)
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Not Too interested in the current apple offering. I always assumed a server-remote solution would come around. Run the resource-heavy speech processing and AI on my home computer (where it would also be used) and have the silly thing call me, skype me, something. Let it do the heavy thinking, then squirt me the data to a handheld device.
Sure, this idea could work even Better if the "home" was an Apple server or even a Google server, I just cringe at handing over the complete and total control of my every interaction with any human to a server I cant kick down a flight of stairs.
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Siri vs Knowledge Navigator
To those of us who were in the CIS/AI business back in 1987, Knowledge navigator was clearly a goal to strive for. Back then the ARPAnet was not yet the Internet as we know it today. .. and Wireless... purely a dream. There are still things to be done to realize Knowledge Navigator, but we ARE getting closer.
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Right now only the iPhone 4S. I do have the Siri App and have used that on my iPhone4 for over a year. It works similar, it's just doesn't have the added benefit of being built into the OS to do all those other cool things. Many of those things would be quite handy.
When I'm driving I'm streaming music from my iphone which is linked by Blue Tooth to my Radio which also has Hands free Voice Support. (I do really hate them dorky Blue Tooth headsets. With Siri, while driving down the road I could tell it to play my Txt Message or read my E-Mail and then Reply to that, all hands free. Siri does work quite well. How it works in real life on the 4S as shown, I can't wait to hear. I'll have it when I upgrade next year to the iPhone 5 which should be a Major Upgrade going by Apples track record.
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Homer Simpson says 'Boooorrring'
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tastes like shiri
I'm not "into scat"
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Now I can't be ticketed for texting while driving, just being on my cell phone when driving. Not sure if there is a difference on that though.
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You people are nuts
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