**Update:** *I updated the wording I used to query both Siri and Google and ended up getting similar results. Very slight change in how it was asked, but with different results.*
I use Siri all the time to confirm the NHL schedule and simple things like that. It works well, even though looking up a schedule isn’t the most difficult task in the world. Or maybe it is.
I was sure there was a playoff game on TV last night, so I asked Siri about 4:00 pm PT what the NHL schedule was—she replied with the score of the previous night’s game, but no information on a game that night.
I was still sure there was a game on, so I asked Google. I was right, a game started in an hour. Siri still had no idea about the game.
This morning I was talking to parents about the score of the game and we got the scores of different games in the last few days confused. I asked Siri:
“What was the score of the NHL game last night?”
As you can see, Siri gave me the score of a Russia vs NHL game played on February 12, 1987.
I asked Google and it gave me the score from last night’s game.
I’ve never seen Siri do this type of thing before.
**Update:** I inadvertently used two different phrases to ask the same question to Siri and Google. When I ask Siri:
“What was the score of the NHL game last night?”
It gives me the correct answer, as Google did.
However, if I ask:
“What was the score of last night’s NHL game?”
Siri gave me the Russia score pictured above. However, Google didn’t give me the proper answer either. It gave me the scores from the previous series.
I’m confused.
probably a temporary bug, but based on the articles I have seen about the siri exodus, and how hot “virtual assistants” and bots are right now, I would expect both Google, Apple, Microsoft,Facebook, are all having a hard time retaining talent in that particular discipline.
It worked for me, but I asked what the score of the NHL “playoff” game was, and when the next “NHL playoff” game was. Siri, apparently, doesn’t understand that the schedule continues beyond the end of the regular season and needs the magic word “playoff” to work. Silly Siri!!
So, now Siri cares about professional sports as much as I do? Sounds like a feature to me.
This just shows how tech journalists (and pundits in the comments section) need to sit down and learn something about natural language processing. If you don’t, you will continue to mislead readers.
well
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/04/apple-updates-siri-with-improved-baseball-acumen/
who has the most RBIs
shows a list of the top 10 or so.
From the exit numbers, SIRI may succumb to natural causes soon. Does Timmy have an option ? VIV ?? Something else? Better hurry !!!!
Yup, this is an absurd complaint. This shit will happen until NLP gets better. The upside is the answer is clearly wrong instead of just subtlety so.
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siri can be as thick as a plank all day, but when she denies a canadian his hockey results she has clearly lost her marbles 🙂