If you have a smartphone, you have something listening to you all the time. Heck, if you spend a lot of time around people with smartphones, it’s also pretty true.
@rtjhnstn This was actually the first thing that popped into my head. I knew the intention of the question before reading the choices, but when I hear the term “digital assistant”, I think of the PDAs that preceded smart-phones .
If you have a smartphone, you have something listening to you all the time. Heck, if you spend a lot of time around people with smartphones, it’s also pretty true.
@simplersimon Yes, but here’s the thing: I’m still in denial about that.
Jenna Jameson
Holly from Red Dwarf
@Evansdoor Male Holly or Female Holly?
@Evansdoor @PocketBrain My head canon is that they’re one and the same
HAL 9000
@heartny
Oh I don’t know…
“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Also the killing people. Swipe left on that feature.
Ask Jeeves dot com?
I want a real assistant, not some digital spy.
So, which ones on the choices list can actually pass a ReCaptcha?
If not, “don’t bother to apply”.
Beep beep boop boop. (I assume if you failed CAPTCHA you now understand Robot.)
@phendrick
fun fact… when google was developing its assistant… and i mean early days, right after apple launched siri…the Development code name was Majel.
as in Majel Barret-Roddenberry, who voiced the starfleet computers in all the shows & Movies TNG->Voy.
Palm Pilot
@rtjhnstn This was actually the first thing that popped into my head. I knew the intention of the question before reading the choices, but when I hear the term “digital assistant”, I think of the PDAs that preceded smart-phones .
The computer from the USS Enterprise
Commander Data
I love the Google assistant.
My opposable thumbs.