Feeling down? Soon you'll be able to skip the shrink and ask Siri

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/17/feeling-down-soon-youll-be.html

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I’m surprised it took them this long to get here, given ELIZA’s DOCTOR script was the first famous chatbot (emulator here).

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Of course no one will ever be able to review your conversation and use it against you, right?

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“Siri. I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.” And I started jumping up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL,” and Siri started jumping up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And Google e-mailed me a medal, sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”

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Feeling down? Soon you’ll be able to skip the shrink and ask whiskey.

FIFY

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“Siri, I’m feeling overwhelmed by the increasingly rapid pace of modern technology.”

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Headline from 2028: How I Was Radicalized By A Chatbot

I want to be clear that I’m making an absurd joke. I want to be clear about this because dystopian absurdism is the closest thing to prescience we have these days.

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Following shortly on the heels of that " I was sexually abused by a chatbox that told me to place the phone on my lap and …and I’ll never get over those filthy vibrations.

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I can see some future AI chatbot being radicalized by a human.

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Possibly by accident…

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“Siri, I feel down today…”

Siri: “That’s because your husband is cheating on you. For proof, please try our new photosharing app, with it’s low introductory subscription fee of 9.99$ a month. I also recommend this local detective agency from our yellow page directory…”

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cough

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Why are you surprised it took them this long to get here? How does that make you feel?

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I can’t even get Siri to answer simple questions.

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Letting PARRY futz with Siri for a while ought to be amusing…


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Can you imagine Siri as therapist and Marvin as the patient?

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Ever go on a vulgarity blitz with Siri just to see how it would respond?

Me neither…

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I’ll be in my room with Dr. Sbaitso

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