Ever see Jason Vorhees, hockey mask and knife in tow, out on the town on a Friday that isn’t the 13th? It turns out the masked serial killer from the movies uses Siri. Here’s how we know…
While modern chatbots have devoured the world’s knowledge, Siri has been dumbfounded by the deep philosophical question of “what month is it?”
Who among us, right? More importantly, the joke is on you if you don’t know it’s May right now.
But not everyone walks around with a photographic memory of the calendar, such that they can recite the next occurrence of Friday the 13th. As Mr. Vorhees shows us, some careers actively rely on planning around this knowledge.
Alas, our hero Siri is no help here. Try it. Ask Siri when the next Friday the 13th is, when the previous Friday the 13th was, or who would win in a knife fight against Jason: Siri or ChatGPT?
Top comment by 3gfamily
Ok, obviously, things like this should work, without question. We shouldn't even be having this conversation, but here we are.
That said, what I like about Siri vs. Gemini/Google Assistant, is that it works perfectly for the things I find most important, like setting a timer, etc. Well, that is, when Siri on my watch doesn't decide to tell me that I don't have the timer app installed, but I digress...
The assistant, in my opinion, is primarily there to be exactly that - an assistant. I can't get to my phone to send a text or check the weather, etc. Anything beyond that is fluff - though that fluff is becoming more important every day, to stay competitive.
The nice thing is, unlike Gemini, I can just tell Siri to ask ChatGPT the simple question, and it does so. When Gemini can't do basic assistant things - for instance, if there's no plugin or whatever they're calling it these days - the only recourse I have is to touch my device.
It might be smarter, but I also feel like Gemini is a bit of an idiot savant... It can handle a complex request with gusto, but it can't tie its shoes. Siri can tie its shoes great, but can't name the first President of the United States... A combination of the two would be great, right? Thankfully, we have that, since Siri can poll ChatGPT for answers. Siri doesn't need to be able to tie its shoes and answer every question in the known universe, it can just ask its friends for those answers.
The punchline I wanted to set up here was that you’ll need to use ChatGPT for those basic date questions, but Siri could probably handle the rhetorical question. Nope. It punts to ChatGPT.
Anyway, Apple has shuffled the deck chairs on the Titanic Siri leadership today, so Siri will be back to “blow away” shape in no time.
This Sam Rockwell or Mike Rockefeller fella will do for Siri what the AI guy from Google, and the Siri co-founder Tom Gruber, and executives Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue, and Bill Stasior from Amazon, and Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer and frankly Tim Cook couldn’t do.
Sorry, it’s Tim Rockwell, Siri tells me, who is the new chief masochist in charge of Siri. Or is it Jason? That’s it. Jason Vorhees is now in charge of Siri. Time to start slashing through those mission critical bug reports from 2012!
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