Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Samsung hides Siri diss in Bixby rap

Samsung’s new digital assistant Bixby is finally starting to roll out to Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus users in South Korea, and, as it does, we’re discovering that the AI-powered bot has some hitherto-unknown skills. Like rapping. And beatboxing. And dissing Siri.

All users need to do is to ask the digital assistant “please rap” or “please beatbox” in Korean, and Bixby will happily oblige. As the video below shows, the assistant has a number of different verses on tap, each of which sounds, well, like a robot trying to rap.

The content is pretty innocuous, but in one verse Samsung does sneak in a half-hearted diss against its main competitor, Apple. If you look at the letters at the beginning of each line in the second rap it spells out the...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/2/15513486/bixby-rap-beatbox-samsung-siri-diss

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/samsung-hides-siri-diss-in-bixby-rap.html

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