[sauropod]

There is nothing as obnoxious as a Liberal’s supercilious self-righteousness.

[No Socialist]

It’s quite ironic that the author calls those you believe in life “Draconian”.

Maybe he should check a dictionary for the definition of Draconian:

1. of or relating to Draco, 7th-century Athenian statesman and lawmaker, or his code of laws, which prescribed death for almost every offence
2. harsh: draconian legislation

[houeto]

This good news is hard to believe. Who has the Moral Absolutes pinglist TOL?

[wideawake]

One answer might be that Iris was designed in India by Indian contractors.

Perhaps Andrew Belonsky should stop being such a racist cultural chauvinist and recognize that mobile apps do not have to be designed solely for the tastes of rich, white elitists from the Northeast in order to have value.

[Responsibility2nd]

This looks like Breaking News.

 

Android Assistant 'Iris' Has More Troubling Opinions Than Siri‎

You +1'd this publicly. Undo

The Atlantic Wire - 1 hour ago

... behind the latest bigoted robot, Iris, there are a lot of bigoted humans. ... personal assistant, the ChaCha-powered Iris, which runs on Android phones.

Highly Cited: Another Anti-Abortion Smart Phone: Android App 'Iris' Calls ...‎ ThinkProgress
In-Depth: Jeff Bezos-Funded Bigot Search Engine Powers Android Siri Rival‎ Gizmodo
Iris, Android's Siri competitor, may be politically conservative‎ Know Your Cell
Opposing Views - Death and Taxes
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I suppose that by tomorrow there will be thousands of liberals with their heads all exploding over this.

 

I'm loving it.

[newheart]

Now that I think about it, this kind of makes sense.

From Isaac Assimov. “The Three Laws of Robotics:”

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Now, my preference would be the 10 Commandments and the Beatitudes, but there may be a simple explanation for the way Siri and Iris have been programmed.

[Keith in Iowa]

Article author is less than knowledgeable....

The app is in the Android App store - and authored by a company called Dextera - the only connection Verizon may have to the app is selling devices capable of fetching the app from the Andriod store. To represent it as “Verizon’s Android application” is patently false.

[Tenacious 1]

...but the rest of us — you know, the less draconian people who believe in a woman’s right to choose — are left to wonder why 21st century technology is so stuck in the 18th century.

Sucking the brains out of a baby whose head pops out of the mother is not draconian at all. It is such a civil event.

[mkleesma]

Trying to download it from the Android Market now, but no luck - keeps error-ing out on download.
‘course, it even says it’s Alpha software...probably be a while before they get all the bugs worked out.

[BfloGuy]

I thought this controversy had pretty much been answered by the fact that abortion mills don't advertise themselves as "Abortion Mills" on Google, the phone book, or anywhere for that matter. They're pretty circumspect about what they do.

I'm sure Siri, et. al. could find you a "Family Planning" office without any trouble.