Cortana flops on stage as Siri laughs behind her back
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella attempted to show off Cortana's capabilities during a keynote speech when she let him down in spectacular fashion.
We’ve all been there. We try to issue a voice command and our digital assistant gets it completely muddled. But Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the last person who wants to be let down, especially when he’s in the middle of demonstrating what Microsoft’s Cortana is capable of.
Nadella was delivering a keynote address at Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference. He was demonstrating some productivity tools, and occasionally showed off what Windows 10 had to offer.
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Then he called upon Cortana. “Show me my most at-risk opportunities,” he told the digital assistant. But she got it completely wrong and instead opened a Bing search results page for "Show me to buy milk at this opportunity.
I feel like these AI don't really respond well to people who don't speak extremely clear English or those who have an accent but still, that was embarrassing
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