Awesome Siri

The 1979 Sugar Hill Gang track Rapper’s Delight put hip hop on the map for many of us. Now enjoy a cover of the seminal rap track, as performed by the trio of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, courtesy of YouTuber Steven Rosenthal. It seems like Siri has the best sense of rhythm.

If voice assistants like Siri had existed back in the ’80s, they might have had a slightly different user experience than we’re used to today. Squirrel Monkey imagines what life might have been like if Siri shipped on a 3.5″ floppy and downloaded answers via a 1200 baud modem.

(PG-13) A man experiences a breakup with his girlfriend in the worst way possible, as her entire Dear John letter is read to him by the electronic voice living inside of his iPhone. Craig Tovey’s short film is an amusing commentary on dating and relationships in the 21st century.

BLACKM00NSTUDIOS re-edited the photo zoom sequence from Blade Runner, imagining that the Esper machine was built with today’s tech. Given the fact that the story takes place in 2019, we’ve got a lot of work to do.

When he’s not being annoyed by his children, or providing life hacks, Vine user RED 6 tries to be productive using Siri. Unfortunately, his phone’s OS has a different idea, and berates him incessantly instead. Perhaps iOS 8 will fix this.

While we like the idea of high-tech weapons as much as the next guy, we think that Sneaky Zebra’s take on Siri as a chatty combat assistant is ridiculous and would ultimately get you killed.

Apple is set to announce something this week, but we’re not sure a TV is a certainty. Here’s just a few reasons that Siri on a TV might not be the brightest idea. And yes, the misspelling is intentional.

(NSFW: Language) You’ve probably already seen news coverage on Siri’s troubles with Scottish accents. Gavin McInnes provides a little insight to the problem with his own Apple commercial.

The iPhone 4S virtual assistant Siri sure is smart. Maybe too smart for it’s our own good. To be fair, that dude who crashed his car deserved it. GPS is nice and all, but we still have to use our eyes.

With all the buzz about Apple’s Siri, Microsoft didn’t want us to forget that they have a similar technology in Windows Phone called “TellMe”. Here techAU puts the two to the test – with hilarious results.

If you thought Siri had problems understanding a Japanese accent, well, you might as well give up on the idea of her making sense out of Furbish. This is how Skynet was born, you know.

YouTuber Slacktory feeds Siri a special cookie and lets her ramble and like, say what’s really on her mind, man. It’s obviously fake, but dude, she’s right about that hurricane naming scheme.

HAL 9000’s younger, better-looking little sister sits on your desktop, adding a speaker dock to your iPhone 4S and so you can bark orders at Siri from across the room. Though she might not obey.

Jonathan Mann has a new iPhone 4S, and a little song (and a little thing) for Siri, his personal, virtual assistant. Despite his pleas, it doesn’t sound like they’ll be getting hitched any time soon.

(NSFW: Language) Okay, we shouldn’t expect the iPhone 4S Siri “intelligent assistant” to be able to understand a thick Japanese accent like this guy’s, but the resulting dialog is too funny not to share.