📎 AI Summary:
The thread discusses users' experiences with Cortana on Windows, highlighting its capabilities like playing music, web searches, and providing weather updates, with positive sentiments about its usefulness and future potential. One user mentions concerns about Cortana displaying insensitive behavior, describing it as somewhat racist, which prompts a response humorously comparing her to an "all American girl." Overall, the conversation reflects a mix of admiration for Cortana's functionality and humorous observations about unpredictable or amusing responses.

MikeHawthorne

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Hi

I've been playing with Cortana today.

Pretty neat, I set up a playlist with 175 pieces of music, a mixture of styles from Pop, Rock, Folk, and Broadway, with everyone from Barbara Streisand to Steeleye Span, Bruce Springsteen, and Joan Baez.

Now all I have to do is say "Hey Cortana play my music" and she starts it someplace at random and plays them in a random order. Right now I'm listening to Julie London singing Fly Me to the Moon.

Ask her to do an impression, pretty funny.

She does really work well for doing a quick web search, I asked "Tell my about Scottish Deerhounds and you are there instantly without any clicking or typing.

Ask her if you need a coat and she will give you the current temperature.

This is a real taste of where computers are going.
In 10 years we really will be talking to our computers, which is a good thing because in 10 years I probably won't be able to type. LOL

I'm now listening to Don Mclean singing "The day the music died", I've been listening to my stuff all day because I can start and stop it instantly without stopping what I'm doing.

I understand you can send an email too, I haven't tried that yet.

Don't know what I have to do to give her access to my address book, probably I'll have to use Microsofts mail client but I haven't explored all that yet.

How's it going Trouble I know you were looking forward to this.

Mike
 

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I did find that she is a little racist. This was a little disturbing. Not sure what to think about her now. She always seemed to be so nice in Halo. :-/
 

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MikeHawthorne

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Hi

And I thought that she was an all American girl. LOL
The funniest joke she has told me so far is...

Two snowman are standing in a field, one says to the other...

"That's funny, I smell Carrots too!"

For some reason I really thought this was funny.
I guess I'm easily entertained.

Mike
 

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No, I had to laugh at that one too. I still like,

What's brown and sticky...a stick.