Since its debut in 2011, Apple’s voice assistant has been able to…Crab  “Changing the way we interact with our iPhones. Siri is capable of many amazing things today, including making calls and playing music. Along with answering questions, sharing contacts, getting information, and performing tasks smoothly and accurately, Apple’s virtual assistant was not like that in its early days. Let’s take you on a journey back in time, as we explore together the story of how Siri came to be, moment by moment, and how it moved from the secret halls of the Pentagon to Apple Park.

Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence, has received a completely new redesign, and you can summon Siri by voice as before, “Hey Siri.”
ai – etymology

hey (interj.)

c. 1200 as a call implying challenge, rebuttal, anger, derision; variously spelled in Middle English heihaiai,  heheh. Later in Middle English expressing sorrow, or concern; also a shout of encouragement to hunting dogs. Possibly a natural expression (compare Roman eho, Greek eia, German hei, Old French hay, French eh). In modern use often weakened, expressing pleasure, surprise.In Latin, hei was a cry of grief or fear; but heiaeia was an interjection denoting joy.

Siri start

Siri can be said to have started in 2003, when the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in collaboration with the Stanford Research Institute decided to fund the CALO project. It is a personal assistant capable of learning to perform very simple tasks such as understanding what is inside files in order to organize and archive them. The goal of this project was to create an artificial intelligence capable of understanding and executing voice commands with unprecedented accuracy.

CALI-fornia /  CALO name

mythology, A. J. Carnoy.7 Califerne, he asserts, is the Persian Kar-i-farn, “Mountain of Paradise.” On this mountain dwelt enormous birds, half eagle and half lion, in the West generally called griffins.  In the surviving records the term “California” seems first to have been applied to the tip of Baja California, on October 15, 1841, by Francisco de Bolanos, but as H.R. Wagner remarks, “for what reason we do not know.” Why, of all possible names, was this one selected? One is tempted to believe that the choice was inspired by a sight of the California condor which of all birds would surely suggest the legendary griffin: indeed one of its early names was Pseudogryphus. This largest of flying creatures  (rivalled in size only by its Andean cousin, Vultur gryphus), was unknown on the Mexican mainland and must have astonished the Spaniards, who spontaneously would name the new land after Montalvo’s Isle of Griffins. Such an hypothesis would explain Bisselius’ insistence, in 1647, that in California Griffins (gryphus) are found; and this is not a fable but the truth.”  SOURCE

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We can see throughout this post that AI is very much in favor of feminism and describes women as “protecting” men.  We see them displayed as beautiful and tempting women, who are battle tested warriors and royalty. We also see them as cunning, self centered deceivers.

California Name Myths: How did California get its name?

Throughout history, there have been many stories about how California got its name. Some believe that the name is rooted from kar-i-farn, a Persian term that means from the elemental or celestial fire used to identify griffins described in Greek myth as “the blazing birds”.

Fire Temple

This posting is a continuation of the Citadel of Glory discussion.

Having now read much of A. J. Carnoy’s Paradise of the East — Paradise of the West, which I received due to the graciousness of Dr. Josef Chytry at the University of California, I can now speak a little more confidently about Carnoy’s Kár-i-farn conjecture.

One interesting point that Carnoy makes is that the place name “Califerne” in the Song of Roland may have been a hybridization of the construct Kár-i-farn and the theocratic title Caliph. What Carnoy does not discuss is the possibility that the word Kár as spoken by an Arab may have sounded much like “Kál” to an early Frenchman, whose deep ‘r’ and ‘l’ sounds were perhaps quite unlike the sharp, shallow ‘r’ and ‘l’ of an Arab or a Persian. Carnoy’s Kár-i-farn could have very easily been modified by the French without any hybridization whatsoever.

Unfortunately, Carnoy does not appear to claim that he had ever read of the construct Kár-i-farn; rather, he appears to argue that the construct was probably used because it appears to be an obvious construction:

Il serait naturel que les légendes concernant les feux divins, les paradis sur les montagnes, les oiseaux merveilleux qui les gardaient ou les transportaient se soient localisées sur la montagne de Kár ou de Kár-í-farn (“Kár du farnah”) comme on a dû l’appeler.

Here’s my rough translation:

It would be natural that the legends concerning divine fires, the paradises on the mountains, and the marvellous birds which kept them or transported them were located on the mountain of Kár or Kár-i-farn (”Kár of the farnah”) as one had to call it.

Carnoy does not appear to provide any evidence that anyone ever actually used the construct, so we must continue to wait for it to appear. Let’s not hold our breath.

That said, I happen to believe that the construct Kár-i-farn is even more likely than Carnoy contends. In my town, there is something called a fire temple. To be precise, it is called a “Dar-e-Mehr” (or Dar-i-Mihr), from the Farsi for “House of Fire” or “House of Light” (I say “Farsi” rather than “Persian” because the term has obvious Arabic influence). I find it quite noteworthy that Dar-i-Mihr can easily be translated to Kár-i-farnMihr and farn(ah), do, after all, carry quite compatible meanings. The actual fire in the district of Kár was even called Farnbag, roughly meaning “Light of God”. As for Dar and Kár, the former is an Arabic word for “house”, and the latter appears to be a Persian root that derives from the Sumerian word for “fort”, and appears to have evolved into a more general meaning akin to “edifice”.

Carnoy appears to think that the construct Kár-i-farn would derive from the name of the district Kár, but it seems to me that the inverse would be more likely: could Kár-i-farn have once been used as a term for “fire temple”?

And regardless of etymology, wouldn’t Karefarnah be an appropriate name for the Golden State? “Land of Sun Worshippers?” “Temple of Fire”?

ai – etymology

ember (n.)

“small, live coal,” Old English æmerge “ember,” merged with or influenced by Old Norse eimyrja, both from Proto-Germanic *aim-uzjon- “ashes” (source also of Middle Low German emere, Old High German eimuria, German Ammern); a compound from *aima- “ashes” (from PIE root *ai (2) “to burn;” see edifice) *uzjo- “to burn” (from PIE root *heus- “to burn;” source also of Sanskrit osati “to burn, scorch,” usna- “hot;” Greek euo “to singe;” Latin urere “to burn, singe;” Old Norse usli, Old English ysle “hot ashes,” Old Norse ysja “fire”). The -b- is unetymological.

In 2007, a group of researchers at the Stanford Research Institute who implemented the CALO project decided to establish their own company to market the technology they developed. The company was named Siri. If you are wondering why the name Siri?

The answer, according to the researchers, was because they wanted a name that was easy to remember, short to pronounce, human-friendly to provide a unique experience, and easy to book a domain name for a cheap price. The word Siri in Swahili means “secret.” In Norse, it means a woman who leads to victory. In Sinhala, it means “beauty.”


Jobs and Siri

 

When Siri launched its app in early 2010, it was Steve Jobs He was very excited about the new technology. He immediately met with the company’s founders to talk about the future and capabilities of Siri. During the meeting, Jobs made it clear that Apple was on the right track to dominate the smartphone market. And that Siri could play a crucial role in this. For about 37 days, the Apple founder was in intensive communication to push for the acquisition and then Siri’s services.


Siri acquisition

Old Siri App Video

In April 2010, it acquired Camel Apple Inc. acquired Siri for $200 million, marking a pivotal moment in the virtual assistant’s journey. The acquisition, overseen by Steve Jobs, integrated Siri into Apple’s ecosystem. Initially released as a standalone app for the iPhone operating system in February 2010, Siri was integrated into the iPhone 4S, which was unveiled on October 4, 2011. Apple subsequently removed the standalone Siri app from the App Store, making it an exclusive tool for the company’s devices.


Improve my siri

 

Since its initial release, Siri has featured a number of advanced technologies. It uses a speech recognition engine, provided by Microsoft’s Nuance Communications. In addition to advanced machine learning techniques such as convolutional neural networks and extended short term memory  Language support was also expanded to include Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Russian by 2013. Voice options have also evolved, and after Siri was limited to the voice of American artist Susan Bennett in 2005, it later supported other female as well as male voices.

As for the main improvements, the phrase to activate the voice assistant “Hey Siri” was added in 2014. Along with improved privacy features and the ability to process user commands on the device and perform many tasks smoothly and quickly.


Legacy and impact

 

Ultimately, Siri represents a quantum leap in how humans interact with technology. Its influence extends far beyond Apple’s ecosystem. It paved the way for voice assistants on smartphones and helped develop competitors like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s voice assistant. Despite criticism over the years for its limited features and voice recognition issues, Siri remains an integral part of Apple products and represents a vital step toward a brighter future where computers interact with humans in a more natural and effective way.

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