▲ 369 ▼ The other day, I said to Siri "Surely it will stop raining." Siri replied, "On Sunday, and don't call me Shirley." (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by Arsenal4ever@lemmy.world to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments Turns out, I had my phone in Airplane! mode.
[–] dojan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) I’m sorry, I don’t understand. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Play. My. Gym. Playlist. (Sigh) “Okay, here’s music by the Playlists” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) Whenever I ask my Google Assistant in the kitchen to play music, it mishears me and plays some bizarre rap. It's always rap too. My favourite occasion of this was when I'd asked it to play "Believe by Cher" and it was all "Sure! Beat the Baby by Brooklyn Queen, playing on YouTube music." I did a double take, sure I'd misheard it, but then the song started playing... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Why would you do this to anyone's ears. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) When I ask my google assistant to make my light blue, sometimes it plays a random song with blue in the title and ignores me for a bit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I feel like Google Assistant has gotten increasingly worse over the years. Functionality is being removed and it’s getting less reliable. I loved the kitchen speaker’s integration with my shopping app, which I shared with my roomie. As I was cooking I’d just be all “Add this to my list” and it would, but now they’ve disabled that API so all it does now is say that it doesn’t understand things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Great, they've made a sea lion AI! 🤦 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago This oddly enough fits in very well in a different conversation thread I’m in right now. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) About 1/3 of the time when I ask Siri to call my wife Rita (not real name), I get “I’m sorry, but there are no Rita’s in your contacts”. There are at least three. How can it not search local contacts correctly? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Haha. My roomie and I are moving soon, and the other week we checked out the apartment we eventually settled for. On the way home his father sent a text that he has time to talk this weekend, and so my roomie wanted to use Siri to respond. So he was all "Send a text to Friedrich" (also not real name), and it was like "I couldn't find a Fred in your contacts. To who?" - "Friedrich!" eventually he spelled it out and it was all "Okay, calling Friedrich." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Play. My. Gym. Playlist. (Sigh) “Okay, here’s music by the Playlists” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) Whenever I ask my Google Assistant in the kitchen to play music, it mishears me and plays some bizarre rap. It's always rap too. My favourite occasion of this was when I'd asked it to play "Believe by Cher" and it was all "Sure! Beat the Baby by Brooklyn Queen, playing on YouTube music." I did a double take, sure I'd misheard it, but then the song started playing... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Why would you do this to anyone's ears. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) When I ask my google assistant to make my light blue, sometimes it plays a random song with blue in the title and ignores me for a bit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I feel like Google Assistant has gotten increasingly worse over the years. Functionality is being removed and it’s getting less reliable. I loved the kitchen speaker’s integration with my shopping app, which I shared with my roomie. As I was cooking I’d just be all “Add this to my list” and it would, but now they’ve disabled that API so all it does now is say that it doesn’t understand things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Great, they've made a sea lion AI! 🤦 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago This oddly enough fits in very well in a different conversation thread I’m in right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) Whenever I ask my Google Assistant in the kitchen to play music, it mishears me and plays some bizarre rap. It's always rap too. My favourite occasion of this was when I'd asked it to play "Believe by Cher" and it was all "Sure! Beat the Baby by Brooklyn Queen, playing on YouTube music." I did a double take, sure I'd misheard it, but then the song started playing... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Why would you do this to anyone's ears. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) When I ask my google assistant to make my light blue, sometimes it plays a random song with blue in the title and ignores me for a bit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I feel like Google Assistant has gotten increasingly worse over the years. Functionality is being removed and it’s getting less reliable. I loved the kitchen speaker’s integration with my shopping app, which I shared with my roomie. As I was cooking I’d just be all “Add this to my list” and it would, but now they’ve disabled that API so all it does now is say that it doesn’t understand things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Great, they've made a sea lion AI! 🤦 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago This oddly enough fits in very well in a different conversation thread I’m in right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Why would you do this to anyone's ears. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) When I ask my google assistant to make my light blue, sometimes it plays a random song with blue in the title and ignores me for a bit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I feel like Google Assistant has gotten increasingly worse over the years. Functionality is being removed and it’s getting less reliable. I loved the kitchen speaker’s integration with my shopping app, which I shared with my roomie. As I was cooking I’d just be all “Add this to my list” and it would, but now they’ve disabled that API so all it does now is say that it doesn’t understand things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Great, they've made a sea lion AI! 🤦 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago This oddly enough fits in very well in a different conversation thread I’m in right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I feel like Google Assistant has gotten increasingly worse over the years. Functionality is being removed and it’s getting less reliable. I loved the kitchen speaker’s integration with my shopping app, which I shared with my roomie. As I was cooking I’d just be all “Add this to my list” and it would, but now they’ve disabled that API so all it does now is say that it doesn’t understand things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Great, they've made a sea lion AI! 🤦 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago This oddly enough fits in very well in a different conversation thread I’m in right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Great, they've made a sea lion AI! 🤦 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago This oddly enough fits in very well in a different conversation thread I’m in right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago This oddly enough fits in very well in a different conversation thread I’m in right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) About 1/3 of the time when I ask Siri to call my wife Rita (not real name), I get “I’m sorry, but there are no Rita’s in your contacts”. There are at least three. How can it not search local contacts correctly? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dojan@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Haha. My roomie and I are moving soon, and the other week we checked out the apartment we eventually settled for. On the way home his father sent a text that he has time to talk this weekend, and so my roomie wanted to use Siri to respond. So he was all "Send a text to Friedrich" (also not real name), and it was like "I couldn't find a Fred in your contacts. To who?" - "Friedrich!" eventually he spelled it out and it was all "Okay, calling Friedrich." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dojan@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Haha. My roomie and I are moving soon, and the other week we checked out the apartment we eventually settled for. On the way home his father sent a text that he has time to talk this weekend, and so my roomie wanted to use Siri to respond. So he was all "Send a text to Friedrich" (also not real name), and it was like "I couldn't find a Fred in your contacts. To who?" - "Friedrich!" eventually he spelled it out and it was all "Okay, calling Friedrich." permalink fedilink source parent