“Samsung claims its AI-based virtual assistant is smart enough to execute 15,000 tasks, use augmented reality to shop for you, and learn from your app usage,” Alejandro Alba reports for Gizmodo. “Yet, apparently it’s not capable of learning English.”
“The launch date for Bixby has been pushed back yet again. The virtual assistant is struggling to understand English, according to the Korea Herald,” Alba reports. “Samsung has been hyping the power of Bixby since it was first formally announced in conjunction with the company’s Galaxy S8 phone in the spring. No one has been able to fully prove it’s better than Siri, Cortana, or Google Assistant for the simple reason that almost no one has been able to use the technology to the fullest.”
The “Samsung Galaxy S8 comes with a button specifically designated for Bixby, which is basically pointless at this juncture,” Alba reports. “Why did Samsung decide to announce an unfinished product, and subsequently over-promise on when it could be delivered? A cynic might suggest the company was trying to distract from the lasting legacy of the exploding Galaxy Note 7.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Meanwhile, Apple’s Siri speaks 21 languages and is available in 36 countries.
If it’s from a South Korean dishwasher maker, it’s not an iPhone.
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Even more problems crop up with Samsung’s Galaxy S8 – May 1, 2017
Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ users suffer randomly restarting phones – April 29, 2017
Samsung under fire: Galaxy S8 owners angry over ‘red tint’ display problems – April 18, 2017
Now beleaguered Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Edge is reportedly catching fire – October 25, 2016
Samsung refusing to pay for property damage caused by its exploding phones – October 22, 2016
Horror stories from the flight ban of Samsung’s exploding phones – October 17, 2016
Analyst estimates 5-7 million ex-Samsung phone users to switch to Apple iPhone – October 17, 2016
U.S. air passengers who try to take Samsung’s exploding phones onto planes face fines, confiscation, criminal prosecution – October 15, 201
Samsung has no clue why their phones explode, yet they shipped replacements anyway, assuring their customers they were safe – October 14, 2016
Study: iPhone users are smarter and richer than those who settle for Android phones – January 22, 2015
Why Android users can’t have the nicest things – January 5, 2015
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “dijonaise” for the heads up.]
LOL! The email notice for this story read “…to stupid to learn English.” The AI that wrote this headline must have skipped the day homonyms were programmed in.”
MDN, Siri is nothing great so don’t tout it so much. At least Samsung is
holding off on the release. Siri can be quite the mess when it wants to be.
The idiocy of Samsung never fails to stun.
Samsung OWNS Viv, which speaks English. But stupid ScamScum isn’t bothering to provide Viv in its devices, as of yet. Instead they’re foisting their own Mickey Mouse attempt at something similar. Of course FAIL.
And to Rob, above:
AI (so-called ‘Artificial Intelligence’) remains profoundly primitive compared to the Gee Whiz! prophesies of its champions. Instead all we have is advanced Expert Systems that know how to traverse complex databases for corresponding question and answer information. ALL ‘AI’ systems ‘can be quite a mess when [they are challenged beyond their meagre abilities]’. Note that no AI system ‘wants’ to be anything. They’re just machine tools of mankind.
As for the StankScat ‘AI’ inability to deal with English. See my chatter below and laugh. Sheesh.
Caffeine deficit evident. Transform ‘chatter below’ into chatter above and laugh…
Samsung OWNS this and FAILs to use it:
http://viv.ai
Wow, it is capable of shopping for you??
Men, the company doesn’t know how tho make a phone or dishwasher that doesn’t blow away and you are going to trust it with your money?
Good thing that android settlers doesn’t have money and that is why they buy cheap iPhones replicas.