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Woman Uses 'Hey Siri' To Call An Ambulance and Help Save Her Child's Life (networkworld.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Networkworld: When Apple released the iPhone 6s, it included a great new Siri feature which enables users to activate the intelligent assistant via voice. Dubbed 'Hey Siri,' the feature is particularly convenient because the iPhone 6s' M9 motion co-processor is 'always listening' and thereby lets users use 'Hey Siri' even when the device isn't connected to a power source. Recently, Stacey Gleeson of Australia used the 'Hey Siri' feature to successfully call an ambulance while she was tending to her daughter Giana who had stopped breathing. "I picked her up and sat down with her on the floor," Gleeson said in an interview. "And as I checked her airways, I looked over and remembered my phone." Thinking quick on her feet, Gleeson said, "Hey Siri, call the ambulance." Fortunately, Gleeson managed to resuscitate her daughter while the ambulance was in route. And while it's impossible to know for sure, it's entirely possible that the time Gleeson saved by not having to call an ambulance manually helped save her daughter's life. "Saving me the trouble of having to physically dial emergency services was a godsend," Gleeson said.
"the feature is particularly convenient because the iPhone 6s' M9 motion co-processor is 'always listening' and thereby lets users use 'Hey Siri' even when the device isn't connected to a power source."
Get this filth out of here. Next week we'll hear about the brave bystander who rescued a toddler from a burning building using an Apple product.
And why is the headline red anyway?
Apple gets credit for being second/ first again with a ground breaking technology! The Moto X had this feature, what, three years ago!?
This is supposed to make us love how its always recording our conversations
2016's Lassie. Kid trapped at the bottom of the well. Leaves iPhone at the top and calls out "Hey Siri" ...
Masturbating Apple fanboys incoming!
Over just picking up the phone and calling 911.
"And while it's impossible to know for sure, it's entirely possible " my ass. It's a non-story. It's a piece of advertisement by Apple/NSA to make us think it's good they're devices are always recording our conversations.
This is proof that AI and the Singularity is here. Venture Capitalist firms need to invest NOW to get in on the ground floor. Also, we are going to be living on Mars in 10 years and on another star in 50!
To credit Apple with saving this girl's live is a HUGE stretch of the imagination. It shows a lot of balls for Apple to take credit for this when in reality the time it takes to unlock a phone and dial 911 on speaker is about 3 seconds.
Translation, all your voice belong to NSA.
So, we already have the FBI/NSA/CIA/etc using national security letters (or maybe even just plain requests) to get your location data from your cellphone because "you've shared" your location with a 3rd party (e.g. - Google maps). Therefore, that data is no longer "yours" and instead belongs to the business and is largely free to be shared with whomever else they want at their discretion.
How long before a similar logic is applied to your "always on" microphone tracking every word you say? I guess we'll just have to trust these giant corporations to protect the privacy of their users rather than comply with the desires of big government ......
Orwell was right about Big Brother but we've chosen to do it to ourselves (through our cellphones).
Turn on your microphones (which could potentially be used for mass surveillance) or let your children die... Is this an advertisement by Apple or the NSA?
Dial 0118999881999119725 three.
Kudos to the mom for knowing how to save her child's life. This is important knowledge that every parent should possess and be able to put to use. Great job mom!
Oh, and she called for an ambulance with her phone.
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"
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Siri actually understood her request and did the right thing? That IS news!
So your Siri is always listening? What happens when I shout "Hey Siri, Call an Ambulance"
But would she have done so in public?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Are you serious?? Do you really think saving three seconds to manually call 911 did any help at all???
This is propaganda marketing by Apple.
This was brilliant; I wonder why he posted as anonymous coward*; I want to give him credit.
*(Well, I can guess why-- he probably figured that half the moderators would rate this -1 incoherent and his Karma would drop to values you have to measure in Kelvin. Say, why doesn't slashdot have a moderation "-1 incoherent", anyway?)
Do you really think "they" would need you to turn the microphone on to listen to you if they want to listen to you? I mean, are you people actually thinking for moment before saying such things? If they want to use phones for audio mass surveillance they would be idiots to have to trick you into turning on the microphone first.
And then? "Damn, he tricked us by disabling Siri! What do we do now?!".
If you're carrying any connected device with a microphone, using voice recognition or not just does not make a trace of a difference anymore.
Extremely unlikely. The few seconds difference it might make is lost in the noise in all the factors that affect the response time. This rings as a bullshit justification of constant surveillance: "We're always watching out for you! Like a helpful older sibling."
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Did this lady not have hands? Because I could see how a lady without hands or arms using Siri to call for help would be newsworthy. Perhaps there was some other reason why she was incapacitated and could not simply dial '911'? Otherwise, what service has Siri provided here, other than saving a second and a half to unlock the phone and dial?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
So when this story is repeated on TV news, how many false calls are the anchors going to accidentally trigger? Or do they avoid saying these trigger words,
opened the calendar to Friday and ordered some french fries.
Computer: Tea, Earlgrey, hot.
I mean it's only a matter of time before people make it a point when they are walking through large crowds to blurt out "Hey Siri call the police" for no good reason.
Is that if I yell "HEY SIR I, CALL AN AMBULANCE" into a room with a few i-devices, it's going to be amusing soon.
That's all you need to know about Apple to hate them.
"hey Siri" is not harder than dialing 911
You don't need your microphone on all the time
You don't need a smartphone to be a good parent
the list goes on
Oh. I know. Grabbing the phone, hitting the three numbers necessary to call your emergency service (which is admittedly easier on a real phone but on one that buries that "telephony-app" somewhere between the hundreds of inane apps nobody needs but you can't uninstall) and turn on speakerphone (again, something that's easier on a real phone), putting it down next to her daughter and listening to the emergency service while helping her daughter.
Nonstory coming your way, film at 11.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Someone used a phone! To make a call! Holy shit, you guys! I don't think you understand how important this is! Fuck off.
I feel so good and positive now. Maybe I should check if the Apple prices have suddenly dropped 75%. No? Maybe I should check again, for I feel so good and positive.
WOW this SPAM is so amazing. Luckily I administer over 500 Apple devices in our company so I truly know how shitty they are for technologically inclined people. We use everything from iPhones to all kinds of MacBoooks .... except for some admins. Open PC all the way :)
Siri, how come Apple does not support corporate IT?
Siri, can you say Imagr?
Siri, go fuck yourself.
Yeah... this is something new...
This article should have been about a mother using the Android voice assistant for this to have been taken as a heroic technology example. Of course, she would first have had to yell, "Launch antivirus!" and wait for the phone to be scanned to eliminate the possibility of that ambulance call going to a Nigerian scammer.
The iPhone is a walled garden, and that's the way I like it.
Imagine your last memory being some hipster saying "Hay Siri" over and over again... In an Australian accent. urf, chills.
Did you mean call Ambiance? Calling Ambiance...
(NE Ohio with appreciate the humor..)
Really? I stopped thunking about the post when I got to "in route"
You've got a pint. That should have been "in root."
Here is what I found about Ambulances:
Ambulance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Ambulance (disambiguation).
A modern van-based Volkswagen Crafter ambulance in the Czech Republic
An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury,[1] and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient. The word is often associated with road going emergency ambulances which form part of an emergency medical service, administering emergency care to those with acute medical problems.
The term ambulance does, however, extend to a wider range of vehicles other than those with flashing warning lights and sirens. The term also includes a large number of non-urgent ambulances which are for transport of patients without an urgent acute condition (see below: Functional types) and a wide range of urgent and non-urgent vehicles including trucks, vans, bicycles, motorbikes, station wagons, buses, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, boats, and even hospital ships (see below: Vehicle types).
The term ambulance comes from the Latin word "ambulare" as meaning "to walk or move about"[2] which is a reference to early medical care where patients were moved by lifting or wheeling. The word originally meant a moving hospital, which follows an army in its movements.[3] During the American Civil War vehicles for conveying the wounded off the field of battle were called ambulance wagons.[4] Field hospitals were still called ambulances during the Franco-Prussian War[5] of 1870 and in the Serbo-Turkish war of 1876[6] even though the wagons were first referred to as ambulances about 1854 during the Crimean War.[7]
There are other types of ambulance, with the most common being the patient transport ambulance (sometimes called an ambulette). These vehicles are not usually (although there are exceptions) equipped with life-support equipment, and are usually crewed by staff with fewer qualifications than the crew of emergency ambulances. Their purpose is simply to transport patients to, from or between places of treatment. In most countries, these are not equipped with flashing lights or sirens. In some jurisdictions there is a modified form of the ambulance used, that only carries one member of ambulance crew to the scene to provide care, but is not used to transport the patient.[8] Such vehicles are called fly-cars. In these cases a patient who requires transportation to hospital will require a patient-carrying ambulance to attend in addition to the fast responder.
iPhone 6s' M9 motion co-processor is 'always listening'
The interesting part missing from the article is that it was actually an NSA agent that called the ambulance...
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Try editing. WTF does "in route" mean?
"OK, I found this on the web for 'call an ambulance'. Take a look:"
For this heart-touching story about how an insidious device that listens to everything you say and relays the information to the government (for the sole purpose to destroy your freedom and in turn your very life) is actually a good thing.
What happens if someone shout "Hey Siri call an ambulance" in a crowded room full of iPhone 6?
Try it! Library of Babel
Don't forget 000 which is Australia and where this article came from.
911 is too hard to remember...isn't "hey Siri" easier to speak than to hit 3 buttons on the phone, or hit the emergency contact of 911, which works even when the phone is locked?
Truth. -1 and still truth.
It is trained, at least somewhat, to your voice. I don't know how selective it is, though. And as for the creepy-factor, you can turn it off, as I have done.
In the future you might have Siri call the police if it believes you are intoxicated or to tell the police that you're speeding. This would be the perfect tool for law enforcement. If you talk to a friend about buying drugs, Siri will narc on you.