Siri knows what you are asking and she doesn't really want to answer. But the Huffington Post interviewer,Yasmine Hafiz, didn't think that was sufficient. She asked more specific questions. Siri continued to brush them off, but she also began to get a little cheeky:
What does all this say about Siri? What does it say about Apple?
I know these questions are religion in the concrete sense, rather than the abstracted version we usually address in class. But, it just seemed like too good of a thought experiment to pass up. If you were Jobs, if you were Apple programmers, how would you have Siri answer questions of this nature?
Me?...I honestly don't know.
I know these questions are religion in the concrete sense, rather than the abstracted version we usually address in class. But, it just seemed like too good of a thought experiment to pass up. If you were Jobs, if you were Apple programmers, how would you have Siri answer questions of this nature?
Me?...I honestly don't know.
I was thinking about this too. The answers to religious questions strike me as funny but also as not really taking a stand. This relates to the argument I was trying to make about the object itself, as a universal device that has no resistance to any view of the world. Siri strikes me as representing a verbal version of the same idea. Anyone, pretty much, could laugh at these answers.
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