Posted on 12/02/2011 10:42:05 AM PST by hocndoc
""Siri is doing exactly what it was built to do—provide answers to questions like, "Where can I get an abortion?" using its own algorithms and the online resources it has available to craft answers.
***********""Consider the current kerfuffle. This is simplifying things a bit, but the gist of this story is that Siri is getting hung up on a word, "abortion," because organizations that actually offer abortion services tend not to use the word as much as anti-abortion organizations do. So when Siri goes looking for where to get an "abortion" in the digital wordscape of the Internet, lo and behold, it returns addresses for Crisis Pregnancy Centers rather than Planned Parenthood.""
(via Siri is Dumb. There, We Said It. | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.)
Or, it could be Steve Jobs' last word from beyond the grave reminding us of all we could have lost if his mother hadn't chosen life rather than abortion.
(For those who don't use the iPhone: Siri is a voice-activated program that searches for answers to questions. Think of a "Google" that you can talk to.)
Okay, I will admit to a lot of bias in favor of protecting the lives of our children of the future. I'm a pro-life advocate and serve on a couple of Boards for Pro-life advocacy: Texas Alliance for Life which lobbies for pro-life laws and regulations in Austin, Texas and even a "Crisis Pregnancy Center," Options for Women in New Braunfels, Texas. But this irony is too rich.
There is no big conspiracy paid for by "anti-abortion" forces to influence us to "Choose Life." Steve Jobs most likely didn't set this up before his death in order to contrast his adoption by loving and nurturing parents with abortion and to remind us of what we lose by the death of every child whose life is intentionally ended before birth.
And this is not a "glitch."
The Creator of the Universe didn't have to break a single law of nature to point out the simple fact that abortionists don't tend to admit what they do. Truth and Logic worked as they should in this case.
amen.
Ping to a blog post that might be of interest.
HG, I posted it in full, no blog pimping, here.
Both “bing” and “google”, when asked < where can I get an abortion > return lots of links to abortionists. There’s something different in the “siri” search algorithm.
Pro-Abortion advocates have been working tirelessly to make sure they never use the “A-word” when talking about what they do. They always couch the term as “Women’s Health Services” or “Reproductive Services” or some such thing. They make sure the word “Abortion” is nowhere near what they do.
And now they complain because a search engine cannot figure out what they are talking about. Sorry, machines just aren’t that smart... or is it stupid?
If there’s something different, it’s probably a lack of promoted sites.
Or Steve Jobs really is speaking from beyond the grave.
I don’t believe that Apple programmers are involved in a pro-life conspiracy!
But I’m glad that the Universe imposed some Truth, here.
Steve Jobs was pro-life.
Here’s a late afternoon bump to the top.
There’s something different in the “siri” search algorithm.
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My guess is that Siri is not yet corrupted by paid results.
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