Meteorologist Forecasts Snow, Siri Interrupts Him On Live TV & Says There's No Such Prediction
Meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker was delivering a weather forecast for snowfall in Minneapolis and Denver in the US. When Tomasz says that there will be snow Siri on his Apple watch interrupts him and says there is no snow in the forecast.
Technology has taken leaps that would astonish most of us. Siri and Alexa have made our lives easier in a lot of ways. They have reduced our dependency on our brains, they make decisions for us that confuse us, and sometimes just make decisions for us and provide information that we do not even think we need. That is what happened with a BBC meteorologist.
During a broadcast on BBC, when meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker was delivering a weather forecast for snowfall in Minneapolis and Denver in the US, he got interrupted by Siri, even when he did not ask.
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The video of the live broadcast is now viral and one can see that when Tomasz says that there will be snow, Siri on his Apple watch interrupts him and says, ¡°there is no snow in the forecast¡±.
Astonished TV presenter asks Tomasz, ¡°Is that your watch?¡±, to which he replies, ¡°Yes that¡¯s my watch saying there is no snow in the forecast.¡± When the TV presenter asked, ¡°Did you just trigger that?¡± Tomasz replies, ¡°It was obviously listening to what I was saying, apologies for that, that was not part of the plan.¡±
When you're a weather presenter and your watch contradicts your forecast....?
¡ª BBC Weather (@bbcweather) November 28, 2019
?Sound on? pic.twitter.com/YXojblKcIQ
The TV presenter then asks about the contradiction and says ¡°But there is snow in your forecast,¡± and Tomasz defends Siri's contradictory weather report by saying, "Yeah but it probably doesn't know what place I'm talking about.¡±
BBC Weather tweeted the video with the caption, ¡°When you're a weather presenter and your watch contradicts your forecast¡¡±
In a Twitter post Tomasz said that he did not activate Siri manually, however someone pointed it out that it gets activated at times by the 'Raise to speak' option; he later admitted that it was actually enabled.
Have you got ¡°raise to speak¡± turned on? Raising your wrist in the way that you did can trigger siri pic.twitter.com/l5wv4A3pzG
¡ª Met4Cast (@Met4Cast_) November 28, 2019
Well, hope the meteorologist was right in his predictions. It would be really embarrassing to be proven wrong by your watch.
