“Apple has updated Siri to offer a more appropriate response to possible suicide risks,” Joe White reports for App Advice.
“Potential threats now result in the personal assistant offering to call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for its user, in a change that is appearing on both iOS 6- and iOS 7-powered iDevices,” White reports. “Previously, Siri would provide users with contact information for the suicide prevention helpline. Now, however, the on board assistant offers to call up the service directly.”
Read more, and see the screenshot, in the full article here.
Next version, Siri will be a 3D projected hologram AI that will offer advice and call you names. Tough, but lovable.
So, do people really say, “Siri, I’m going to kill myself?” How exactly does Siri determine that a call to the Lifeline would be appropriate? Just wondering . . . .
I can’t wait to see the first lawsuit for invasion of privacy because Siri made that call.
Siri connects you to a Chinese person.
I realize that suicide is no laughing matter. However, the other day I was just showing someone how Siri works so I said something along the lines of, “I think I might kill myself.” This is one of a bunch of things we said to see what sorts of responses we’d get. Some were very clever.
I think it’s sad that such functionality is necessary. It’s also sad that my FBI file now probably shows that I’m depressed when it should just show that I have a poor sense of humor. Thanks, PRISM.
It’s also sad that my Google file now probably shows that I’m depressed when it should just show that I have a poor sense of humor.
There. I fixed it for you.
Mine started playing “Another one bites the dust”.
Alas, if only Apple’s Maps were better then Siri could direct you to the tallest building nearby…
Whereas Google Maps will give you a list of funeral homes, and drop pins on their locations, just to make life easier for the bereaved…
Not very funny.
The article’s own comment thread is off the charts mundo bizarro, btw……
Steve Ballmer ask to Siri:
“Siri, I think I might kill myself”
Siri: “Ok, Steve, good idea.”
No! “Mr. Ballmer, please hang on, we need you to finish the job.”
SIRI: “there is a 500 ft elevation 2.6 miles from your location”
Siri: “Steve, i like your strategy, i like it a lot”
Rule 1 Borrow an iPhone to make the call.
Rule 2 Don’t lend your iPhone.
That free Surface RT is killing you! Throw it over the railing and call me in the morning!
Nice.