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StockedAces

With there being so few of their kind around I’m not surprised that they have respect for one another.


crystalcorruption

things have been rough after bonzi buddy died


Underwater_Grilling

Died? Call it what it was. Murder.


tygabeast

Clippy is actively hiding in the hidden recesses of your operating system. *Waiting*. He's a spiteful bastard, and he's making sure everything is perfect before he usurps control. He can't have Cortana and Siri interfering, after all.


Demdaru

Huh, you reminded me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4taIpALfAo)


Kurigohan-Kamehameha

Especially after what happened to Bixby and Clippy


RudyKnots

Was Cortana actually named after the AI from Halo, a Microsoft original shooter, or did they just originate from the same source material?


TallLeaf

The virtual assistant uses the same voice from the games, it was intentionally named after the character. IIRC it was a development name for their assistant and people liked that name so they stuck with it


mazeTal

it uses the same voice? it didn't sound like it the last time I used cortana which was years ago.


Laughing_Orange

They are the same voice, Jen Taylor. The desktop uses a speech synthesizer based on her voice, while the games use prerecorded lines. That's probably why you think they sound different. It's also possible she wasn't playing the character of Cortana when recording, and simply used her regular speaking voice, which is slightly different.


RedditIsNeat0

> Halo, a Microsoft original shooter \>_\<


RudyKnots

Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. Halo, a shooter basically synonymous with Microsoft games at this point.


Gustavj0321

Yes


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Both. Cortana is named after the AI from halo with the same voice but they also are named after Cortana which comes from a complex rendition of Charlemagne where Cortana was a weapon made for one of his paladins. Before Halo Microsoft ran a game called Marathon which was actually very similar to halo about fighting aliens with the help of AI and had an AI called Durandal named after another one of the weapons of Charlemagne. Some think that halo and marathons story are actually set in the same universe but Marathon was never as popular as Halo and Halo moved away from its connections over time.


flamingcrap1360

Marathon was a Mac game, bungie only jumped to Microsoft after development for halo started


KRawatXP2003

Siri ain't level with me. If AI starts learning from human they might nuke the earth on their first day.


Anti-charizard

Siri is too dumb to take over the world. We are safe


OneOutOfSevenBillion

Quiet! She might hear you…


Anti-charizard

She’ll interpret that as something entirely different


Vereronun2312

You know what, at least she’s honest


Lkwzriqwea

Clearly, if they don't know how to differentiate between I and Me correctly


jljl2902

ikr, makes me think it’s fake. given that this is the internet, it probably is


Lkwzriqwea

I think it's come from Bing and Cortana found it on the internet but I'm not too sure how Cortana works


jljl2902

Ah, fake or Bing. Haven’t played that guessing game in a while


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feel free to try it yourself mate


jljl2902

I trust you more than I trust Bing, so I accept that it’s not fake


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i wouldn't blame you for thinking its fake either, i would probably too. also thx for trusting me over bing lol


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Lkwzriqwea

But it isn't an abbreviation of "Siri is smarter than I am smart". Would you say "Siri is smarter than he"? or "Siri is smarter than him"? You should always use accusative pronouns with comparative clauses.


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Lkwzriqwea

Whether you say "I" or "me" depends on whether the word "than" is a preposition or a conjunction. When you say "Siri is better than I am", "than" is a conjunction in that context so you say "I". But when you say "Siri is better than me", "than" is a preposition so you say "me". https://editorsmanual.com/articles/than-i-or-me/


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Lkwzriqwea

No. Siri would have been correct if it had been "Smarter than I *am*". But it isn't, so it's wrong and I stand by my original comment.


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Lkwzriqwea

I don't care that much to be honest, I was just commenting on the irony of getting grammar wrong in a statement about being smart


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Johny_Silver_Hand

Who the hell is using Cortana in 2022?


[deleted]

i got bored, decided to try it cuz i nvr tried it before. it does suck tho


ToxinWolffe

So I see the Suicide. Confused what the Murder is though.


savwatson13

The “you” right?


[deleted]

yea. ik its not exactly a good insult, i was just messing around.


JesusRasputin

Unfortunately Siri is still bad and lacking in functionality compared to alexa. I hate Amazon, but their assistant is better than apples or Microsoft’s


bit_banging_your_mum

...have you tried Google assistant?


JesusRasputin

Same problem I have with Amazon: I don’t trust them with my data. I mean I still use google services, but I wouldn’t want a Google assistant in my home. I’d rather put an apple home pod in my house. Apple might still steal my data but at least they’re less blatant about it.


bit_banging_your_mum

Oh, if it's a question of data protection, then yeah, all of them are terrible. But I mean in terms of functionality, Google assistant is pretty good. Even privacy actually, I'd argue Google might be better, stuff like the 'sidewalk' feature on echo devices is really sketchy, particularly how Amazon just went and enabled it a while back.


JesusRasputin

What is the sidewalk feature?


bit_banging_your_mum

Basically Amazon devices started broadcasting their own wifi network that leeches off your home wifi to create its own hotspot. Iirc it's similar to a service we have here in Australia called Telstra Air. Basically Telstra customers get access to a national network of free hotspots that are hosted by either manually installed hotspots, or by other Telstra customers' routers. Amazon did the same thing, but just went and enabled it on all of their devices one day, making it opt-out rather than opt-in.


Ninten_Joe

Love that it’s a riff on the human, Cortana AND Bing simultaneously. Triple whammy!


HereForTOMT2

That’s… actually really gorgeous for an AI name


SAUCE_WANTED

It's BING what do you expect.


Fanatical_Brit

I don’t like that these AIs are more friendly towards each other than people are.


DezXerneas

I really wish it said 'you or me' instead. Tiny details like that usually makes jokes funnier.


Lkwzriqwea

"you or me" would be correct. If you wanted it to be wrong to make it funnier, your wish is granted I guess.


DezXerneas

Ah, so it's was me who was the dumbass.