SIRI and talking to ourselves!

Honestly, if you ask me, we are already "socially deprived" because we talk to people via our smart phones via facebook, or an instant messenger service, and not to "real" people so to speak. We need to be more talking on the phone, interacting outside of the phone. Siri is a bad deal though, I mean it's a great invention but like you said you can pretty much interact with it like a human being. It reminds me of that chat site that's really "intelligent" it's a computer but you can talk to it like it's not, I forget the name. Either way, Siri needs to be made "smart" but not "companion" material.

I think that siri can be pretty useful on certain occasions. My friend has it on her iphone (mine doesn't :() and whenever we're hungry she pulls out her phone and says I'm hungry. Lol that's usually how we find a place to eat. So in that aspect I think it's useful but I think it's dumb that people sit there and say stupid things just to see what siri will say back. I don't really think it makes people anti-social or anything, I think apple just wanted to make a useful and fun tool for iphone users. The thing that gets me though is the cleverbot site where you basically talk to an AI and it answers you and forms it's answers based on how other people who use it type. To me, that's just weird and creepy lol

I had not heard of this feature before. I am sure that this does not surprise you? I would think that for omeone to use it just to hear someone speak is, oh, so sad. If I want to talk then I would call family or friends but definitelly not suri,

I have seen one or two of those commercials and I think it's a little weird too. I also do think that technology is decreasing social skills...at least on a personal level. To be honest, I don't want to end up with just me and SIRI.

Ohhhh, this is a whole new level of "talking to yourself"! And it's kind of like "Knight Rider" come to life (remember KITT?)! Yah, it is a bit disturbing, isn't it? In the commercials they make it out like the celebs are actually having a personal conversation with their iPhones - not just storing or getting information. Ugh - it is kind scary to think people could get "attached" to SIRI in a social way. Heck, people can get social online without ever seeing or speaking to the other person personally as it is . . . only with SIRI it isn't with another living being. I suppose SIRI could never be rude, insulting, or talk your ear off! It will be interesting too see what happens in coming years as they tweek it and improve it . . . you never know how a mere "tool" can affect its users - in ways no one ever thought of! John Malkovich is a strange oddball type - but for some reason I find him intriguing . . .

Hey.Siri just has some pre-programmed answers for the possible things that a human will ask.It connects such answers to doing certain tasks like making a reminder or sending messages on its own or tracking down the best places for a dinner based on the ratings in a pre-programmed website.Also,in order to function,it should be connected to the server so that all recent advancements will be updated and you get the best of Siri.Although you can say that as artificial intelligence,it does not have the skill to reason out things along with emotions like the humans do.So I don't think people will be satisfied by using such artificial intelligence software.