I was tooling around in the car last week, and I asked Siri a question through the dashboard interface.
(I have no idea if I am using the correct vocabulary. I talked to the car. What would kids today call that?)
I said “Hey Siri,” asked a question, and he (with his South Asian accent) said, “Do you want me to use ChatGPT to answer that?”
I agreed, and got my answer, and then wondered if the answer was wrong, as one does. Of course I now have a litmus test to see if ChatGPT is hallucinating.
I asked, “Hey, Siri, who is Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia?”
(Hint: I am she. Not anyone else. ChatGPT on my iPad knows this. Alexa knows this. Siri should know this, certainly if quizzing ChatGPT, because ChatGPT and I had a little talk and we got that straightened out and AI learned that I am not a character invented by Dave Barry.)
Siri in my car got as far as the words “Dave Barry” and I don’t know what came after that because I was yelling.
Siri in my phone (which I think is also Siri in my car) said this after I got home.
So NOW it’s calling me a plagiarist. How can I have plagiarized myself? This is just infuriating.
2 responses to “AI has learned, but only a little, and has not passed it on to Siri”
I’m slightly embarrassed to be asking at this late date, but how do you pronounce “Mediocretia”? You’d be surprised how often this comes up in my conversation.
Rosie! I was sure it was out there, but I moved it off the About page to the Gravatar icon page, which isn’t visible any more. So it’s back on the About page thanks to you. It’s a mashup on Mediocre and Lucretia (as in Borgia … which is sort of like borgeouise now that I think of it). I always say “Mee-dee-AH-cree-shu”