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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 07:23 PM Mar 2012

Siri: I Couldn’t Find Any Suicide Prevention Centers

If you’re feeling suicidal, don’t rely on Siri.
Today, I decided to play around with my fiance’s new iPhone. Siri, the iPhone’s “digital assistant” is capable of handling all sorts of tasks: sending text messages, scheduling reminders, determining directions, searching Google for answers to questions, and using Wolfram Alpha to compute math problems.

She’s clever, though. Ask her if she’s male or female and she’ll answer frankly: none. Ask her about the meaning of life and she cracks a snarky joke about writing a “very long play in which nothing happens.” Ask her about which religion is correct and she’ll mention something about being a “Siliconist.”


http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/03/16/siri-i-couldnt-find-any-suicide-prevention-centers/

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With 80 suicides committed daily and another 1500 attempts and over 32,000 people annually just in the USA....I think Apple should reconsider there lack of seriousness.....
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Siri: I Couldn’t Find Any Suicide Prevention Centers (Original Post) MindMover Mar 2012 OP
Siri is dumber than Rick Perry OffWithTheirHeads Mar 2012 #1
Could there be possible legal ramifications USArmyParatrooper Mar 2012 #2
"Where can I hide a body?" longship Mar 2012 #3
Asking a SIRI? The proper answer is "you win a Darwin award for that one". saras Mar 2012 #4
must be an apple booblehead.....this information says Siri is the end all.... MindMover Mar 2012 #5

USArmyParatrooper

(1,827 posts)
2. Could there be possible legal ramifications
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 07:47 PM
Mar 2012

if Apple included suicide hotlines?

I'm not sure about now, but it used to be if you ask her to have sex with you she finds "escorts" in your area.

Yeah I asked so what? Then my wife splashed a glass of water all over me, but that's another story.

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. "Where can I hide a body?"
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 08:58 PM
Mar 2012

I've heard that this is the iconic Siri question. It was the first one my friends and I asked when I first got my iPhone 4s. Sorry, no spoilers.

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
4. Asking a SIRI? The proper answer is "you win a Darwin award for that one".
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 09:32 PM
Mar 2012

It's like expecting a Roomba to cure you of HIV.

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