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Once I had a new assistant and I asked her to book me a flight to Boston. She went to the travel booking system, typed in Boston, then called me back confused.
by dreamcompiler 6y ago
Once I had a new assistant and I asked her to book me a flight to Boston. She went to the travel booking system, typed in Boston, then called me back confused. "Which Boston do you want? There are 8 of them?"
I was caught off guard and told her I'd prefer the one in Massachusetts. I did not fire her. She was young, had a poor general education, and had never traveled outside her home state. Those things do not make her stupid.
- saagarjha 6y agoThis is how people treated Siri when it came out. It's been nine years since, so it should really not be something that is OK now. (Aside: are there actually people who grew up in the United States who aren't aware of the significance of Boston, Massachusetts, arguably the nexus of the American Revolution?)
- scrozier 6y agoThanks for this. The tone of this article was off-putting to me. The world doesn't really break down into "us" and "stupid people."
- casefields 6y agoIf she were still doing that a decade later what would your response be? We choose to hire Siri/Alexa/etc. At some point there's to be a baseline of good enough or else you fire them.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoYeah, point very much taken. Agreed.
- grayclhn 6y agoNote that she didn't book you a flight to the nearest Boston either.
- smabie 6y agoI mean, you can become smarter. She does sound stupid, but fortunately, maybe she can change that.