{"id":64474,"date":"2014-01-07T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=64474"},"modified":"2014-01-07T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:17:37","slug":"siri-hates-her-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/siri-hates-her-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri Hates Her<\/i>, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"hal-2001\"<\/a>

HAL 9000\u2014still the standard-bearer for baneful artificial intelligences.<\/p><\/div>\n

  • Eschewing received wisdom and millions of high school syllabi, one writer dares to contend that Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s Villette<\/em> trumps Jane Eyre<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Spike Jonze wrote the screenplay for Her<\/i>, which features a honey-tongued operating system named Samantha, well before Siri came into this world\u2014but surely you can see the connection. Siri can\u2019t<\/a>. Ask her about Her<\/i> and you\u2019ll get some guff: \u201cI think she gives artificial intelligence a bad name.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • As the New York Times<\/i> prepares to debut its new home page, this helpful gif shows how the site has evolved since 2001<\/a>. (\u201cThe New York Times<\/i> on the Web,\u201d it said then\u2014as if to congratulate itself for having arrived.)<\/li>\n
  • Fan art for The Catcher in the Rye<\/i><\/a>. Highest honors go to that left-handed fielder\u2019s mitt.<\/li>\n
  • Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry\u2019s The Little Prince<\/i> becomes an art exhibit<\/a>.<\/li>\n

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    Eschewing received wisdom and millions of high school syllabi, one writer dares to contend that Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s Villette trumps Jane Eyre. Spike Jonze wrote the screenplay for Her, which features a honey-tongued operating system named Samantha, well before Siri came into this world\u2014but surely you can see the connection. Siri can\u2019t. Ask her about Her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[7581,4217,12477,12479,12478,1818,7582,282,12476],"class_list":["post-64474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-antoine-de-saint-exupery","tag-charlotte-bronte","tag-her","tag-siri","tag-spike-jonze","tag-the-catcher-in-the-rye","tag-the-little-prince","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-villette"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSiri Hates Her, and Other News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why Villette is better than Jane Eyre, fan art for \u201cThe Catcher in the Rye,\u201d and other news.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/siri-hates-her-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Siri Hates Her, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 7, 2014 \u2013 Eschewing received wisdom and millions of high school syllabi, one writer dares to contend that Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s Villette trumps Jane Eyre. 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