iPhone 4S Siri answers my absurd questions and likes Star Trek, but not war

If you haven't heard, the iPhone 4S has a talking assistant named Siri. She talks and takes orders like a champ. She's also apparently programmed to handle some pretty random questions with sarcasm, elegance and ease. This makes me have a little crush on the Apple programmers.

I'm an unabashed gadget geek. So, since it was a work holiday, my sister Cayla and I designated Monday as Phone Day. Then we stayed up late into the night asking our iPhone 4S Siri assistants questions.

Absurd questions.

Yes, various folks have tried this since the shiny new phone came out in late 2011, but we wanted to push the envelope, get creative, and ask the anthropomorphized phone software the most random (and pressing) questions possible to, ahem, test its capability.

Not the most efficient use of time, but it was fun.

Following are the results of our useless experiment. All images below are real screenshots of 'conversations' with our neat iPhones.

And in case you're a little slow on the uptake, the phrases in bold quotes are things we asked, the non-bold answers came, audibly and in text, from our phones.

Siri on love and (mixed) emotions

Siri is ambivalent on chocolate, but clearly anti-war

Siri on fictional characters (and technology)

   

Siri answers (some) personal questions

Siri gets annoyed

So thanks for all the fun and games Siri. And, also, thanks in advance for the directions to bars, restaurants and places to hide a dead body (as necessary).

Comments

[Amy (yes me)]

laughing my big fat....siri, does this make me look fat.....