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[–]hockeyc 30 points31 points ago

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"What is your favorite color?" "Siri: I'm not sure how to say it in your language... it's sort of greenish but with more dimensions"

[–]philip1201 19 points20 points ago

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The human eye can receive three different dimensions of light - really just pixelated quantities which give integrated values over certain ranges of the one-dimensional spectrum of light - but the visual cortex automatically turns them into an estimation of the dominant frequency of any absorbed pixel (hence colour). TL lamps don't actually emit white light, it just appears like that to our eyes.

An iphone however - or any computer for that matter - receives certain dimensions of light (probably more than three to compensate for the TL lamp effect), stores them in such high dimensions (if you don't compress the image), and only turns them into our limited rgb values when the image has to be displayed.

A computer's impression of what we can see would be a 3D value assigned to every pixel on their display, while they themselves store information in a higher-dimensional system. If you would imagine the computer to be sentient, it could analyse each input frequency independently, rather than limiting itself to the estimated dominant frequency. This would allow computers to consider colours that we can't see, by manipulating the dimensions we don't consciously process.

[–]CryptoPunk 7 points8 points ago*

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That'd be cool if it wasn't bullshit. Cameras don't take pictures with a spectrometer for every pixel, they use CMOS sensors which have RGB filters over them, limiting their reception to RGB, whereas humans have 4 photoreceptors, increasing our color profile immensely. If CMOS sensors didn't have the filters, they would be monochromatic. They could also be using the foveon sensors, but while it would theoretically be feasible to apply the technique to get an arbitrarily fine spectrum, in practice, there are only 3 layers.

[–]TheCheeks 5 points6 points ago

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Woah.

[–]Albaek 0 points1 point ago

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Clearly you understood that. Care to translate?

[–]Aquabreak 2 points3 points ago

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There are colours our brains automatically edit out to make things simpler.

Computers can store information about those colours and they simplify it when they display it.

Computers could "see" things we don't.

[–]TheCheeks 1 point2 points ago

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No no, I was more amazed by all the big words. It sounds scientific.

[–]ThisNameIsOriginal 0 points1 point ago

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So..... Magic?

[–]rtilde 13 points14 points ago

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They need to combine the banter of CleverBot with the utility of Siri.

[–]thmoka 54 points55 points ago

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And so GLaDOS was born.

[–]Krxe 12 points13 points ago

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"siri, release deadly neurotoxin"

[–]TheoQ99 10 points11 points ago

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"I'm afraid I can't do that, Krxe"

[–]thmoka 2 points3 points ago

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Like GLaDOS, or anything GLaDOSesque would pass up the chance to gas some meatbags.

[–]thetoastmonster -3 points-2 points ago

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The Cleverbot Android app already has speech recognition.

[–]rtilde 3 points4 points ago

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There's a Cleverbot android app?

I was going to get it, but what's the point? My Hero can barely run its own version of android.

[–]thetoastmonster 0 points1 point ago

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[–]Shazoola 14 points15 points ago

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[–]SomethingWonderful 9 points10 points ago

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"Aluminoscilicate glass" Is that like... transparent aluminum?

SCOTTY!!

[–]scottydg 17 points18 points ago

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YEAH?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Jesus, man.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points ago

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"Siri, jailbreak my iPhone", someone must test this.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points ago

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Tested.

Siri's Response: "I don't understand 'Jailbreak my iPhone."

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points ago

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Aww :(

Thanks for testing anyway

[–]rbohlig 9 points10 points ago

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[–]aussieidiot 13 points14 points ago

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"Siri, give me your source code."

[–]ShrimpCrackers 8 points9 points ago

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You'll probably get an automatic cease and desist from Apple's lawyers.

[–]whoami9 1 point2 points ago

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Pretty sure your iPhone will blow up if you ask Siri that.

[–]specialk16 21 points22 points ago

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Oh God, first the messaging screenshots, now the Siri screenshots... The future of /r/pics is not good.

[–]tekn0viking 4 points5 points ago

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i asked this too and it told me i have the wrong kind of personal assistant ಠ_ಠ

[–]whitemamba83 5 points6 points ago

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From what I've seen of Siri so far, she reminds me a lot of EDI from Mass Effect.

[–]jocelmeow 4 points5 points ago

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[–]DrMarf 3 points4 points ago

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"Siri, What is the best phone?"

"You're kidding, right?"

[–]richworks 10 points11 points ago

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It actually says, "The one you are holding in your hand." :)

[–]bdavbdav 7 points8 points ago

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I think it has a series of responses for each silly question like that.

[–]kukamunga 11 points12 points ago

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a... Siri-s of responses? he he hehhhhh

[–]ShrimpCrackers 1 point2 points ago

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"Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the most beautifu..."

[–]AvoidMadness 2 points3 points ago

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When I asked the same thing she said, "why do people keep asking me that?"

Clearly she's on to us.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Forever alone no more.

[–]coldfusion079 2 points3 points ago

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I see $300 well spent.

[–]jeffrexsave 1 point2 points ago

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It says " nice, eh" here in Canada

[–]lukewarm2 1 point2 points ago

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Oh my god. Siri is the new cleverbot.

[–]10tothe24th 1 point2 points ago

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Totally worth the $400 bucks, ain't it?

[–]k_lander 1 point2 points ago

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that's siriously cool.

[–]sarahpalinstesticles 0 points1 point ago

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All these post make me want to get an Iphone. How long before the novelty wears off?

[–]Halefire 0 points1 point ago

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"Do you have a self-destruct sequence?"

[–]essjay2009 0 points1 point ago

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Not as good when you've got it set to British English on account of it being a rather stern sounding man's voice. I imagine he's wearing a triple breasted suit, bowler hat and pocket watch. And leather underwear.

[–]jorellh 0 points1 point ago

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She just tells me unable to connect to server. You 4S people took my Siri!

Ask her who let the dogs out?

[–]Tashre 0 points1 point ago

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The way this trend is heading is really disturbing.

[–]broo20 0 points1 point ago

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That's actually quite witty, props to apple for that one.

[–]joemamalikesit 0 points1 point ago

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ask siri: "what is best in life?" see if she responds with the conan line. i'd check but i'm a broke ass.

[–]BaconChapstick 0 points1 point ago

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I can't wait until someone makes a thing for jail broken Iphones that adds hundreds of new definitions to Siri's mind and you can ask it almost anything and it will answer it for you.

[–]grahvity -3 points-2 points ago

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[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points ago

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forever_alone.jpg

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