Use of English

Matt Legend Gemmell, a ... designer from Edinburgh, got a new Apple Inc. iPhone on Friday and asked it :"Who's your daddy?"

"You are", the phone answered, in the ... of an authoritative man.

The real science of artificial intelligence is finally catching up to science ...

HAL 9000, the scary computer that could respond from the movie "2001:A Space Odyssey", has come to life, in the form of Siri, a ... personal assistant that comes with Apple's iPhone 4S, which arrives in stores in October, 2011.

The phone takes verbal commands and questions, and ... with computer-generated speech.

Real humans are responding to this amazing ... by asking their iPhones ridiculous questions.

Micah Gantman, the director of mobile business at software firm HasOffers.com in Seattle, asked his ... : "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

A lot of work went into so much ... sarcasm.

The ... of Siri put "deep thought" into the personality of their software, says Norman Winarsky, co-founder of the company that was bought by Apple for $200 million in 2010.

An Apple spokewoman declined to answer questions about ... Siri works.

... uses different voices in each of its available markets:female in the US,Australia and Germany, and male in the UK and France.

One listens and ... what customers are saying, the other interprets the meaning behind the request and responds.