Siri, Please Understand Human Relationships

[elfs]

This morning, I had misplaced my phone. I asked Omaha if I could use hers to call mine. Having had some luck with it in the past, I pushed the button on her phone and said, "Siri, please call Elf Sternberg."

"I cannot find Elsi Sternberg. Would you like me to search local businesses?"

"No. Call Elf Sternberg."

"I don't understand that."

Omaha took the phone from me. "Siri, Call Elf Sternberg."

"I cannot find Aleph Sternberg. Would you like me to search local businesses?"

"Siri, call my husband, Elf Sternberg."

"Okay. What is your husband's name?"

"Elf Sternberg."

"Okay."

"Siri, call my husband."

"What is your husband's name?"

Omaha got a little exasperated. "Let's try this again." She pushed the stop/start button twice, resetting the conversation. I wish I could do that in real life sometimes. "Siri, call my husband."

"Okay, what is your husband's name?"

"Elf Sternberg."

"Fine," Siri says. "Would you like me to remember that Omaha Sternberg is your husband?"

Talk about relationship graph fail. Not only does Siri not know that Omaha Sternberg is the owner of the phone, but she does not know that Omaha Sternberg cannot be the husband of Omaha Sternberg.

I suspect that part of the problem is that my name, on Omaha's phone, starts with "ICE:", which is intended for emergency personnel to be able to find and call the person most capable of answering any questions in case Omaha has a seziure. Paramedics are taught to look for ICE entries on cell phones.

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Huh, I Did Not Know That (re: ICE).

Rather than polluting the contacts db namespace with the "ICE:" string, maybe you could just edit the lock screen image to have "ICE: 203-xxx-xxxx" visible on it?

[irismoonlight.livejournal.com]

ARgh.

Yes, and mine now refers to my Sweetie as ICE. Even after deleting the ICE entry. Nothing I do has been able to restore his name to its "first" memory, so all his texts and calls are from ICE. It's a little thing, but it's annoying as h*ll.

[areitu.livejournal.com]

With regards to ICE, maybe creating one contact with multiple phone numbers, while maintaining a separate "Elf Sternberg" contact, would fix this problem