Who is Linus?

[NicolSD]

I live in Canada and I recently found out that Google Assistant was finally available on iOS devices here. So I installed it on my iPhone and have been playing with it on and off. Today, I asked  the assistant who is Linus. Since I never specified a last name, I was wondering what it would say. The answer?

 

None other than Linus Sebastian! The Google Assistant (at least in Canada) automatically starts telling us about our Linus when simply asked "Who is Linus?"

 

Meanwhile Cortana (on my iPhone) refers me to Linus Torvald, and Siri to Pope Linus (second pope of the Catholic Church),  It's settled, Google Assistant is the best AI assistant.

[Tarun10]

22 minutes ago, NicolSD said:

I live in Canada and I recently found out that Google Assistant was finally available on iOS devices here. So I installed it on my iPhone and have been playing with it on and off. Today, I asked  the assistant who is Linus. Since I never specified a last name, I was wondering what it would say. The answer?

 

None other than Linus Sebastian! The Google Assistant (at least in Canada) automatically starts telling us about our Linus when simply asked "Who is Linus?"

 

Meanwhile Cortana (on my iPhone) refers me to Linus Torvald, and Siri to Pope Linus (second pope of the Catholic Church),  It's settled, Google Assistant is the best AI assistant.

Probably because Apple don't particularly like Linus, so they might have banned his name from being said by Siri. As for Cortana, let's just say she ain't smart.

[LAwLz]

6 hours ago, Tarun10 said:

Probably because Apple don't particularly like Linus, so they might have banned his name from being said by Siri. As for Cortana, let's just say she ain't smart.

Or maybe it's because OP is subscribed to LinusTechTips on Youtube, and that gets factored in to the search results.

The Cortana and Siri results are probably less personalized because they don't have as much data on you.

[r3loAded]

7 hours ago, NicolSD said:

I live in Canada and I recently found out that Google Assistant was finally available on iOS devices here. So I installed it on my iPhone and have been playing with it on and off. Today, I asked  the assistant who is Linus. Since I never specified a last name, I was wondering what it would say. The answer?

 

None other than Linus Sebastian! The Google Assistant (at least in Canada) automatically starts telling us about our Linus when simply asked "Who is Linus?"

 

Meanwhile Cortana (on my iPhone) refers me to Linus Torvald, and Siri to Pope Linus (second pope of the Catholic Church),  It's settled, Google Assistant is the best AI assistant.

lame...ooooh...sorry...it's LAME!

[Misanthrope]

Linus of Hollywood of course, little known fact he recorded with Paul Gilbert once, here is he rocking those damn hard baselines:

 

 

[Eduard the weeb]

feel like the pope would be first because he's was the motha fuckin pope, but yeah my google home mini will always say Linus Sebastian and same when I say who is Marques ( MKBHD )

[asus killer]

8 hours ago, NicolSD said:

I live in Canada and I recently found out that Google Assistant was finally available on iOS devices here. So I installed it on my iPhone and have been playing with it on and off. Today, I asked  the assistant who is Linus. Since I never specified a last name, I was wondering what it would say. The answer?

 

None other than Linus Sebastian! The Google Assistant (at least in Canada) automatically starts telling us about our Linus when simply asked "Who is Linus?"

 

Meanwhile Cortana (on my iPhone) refers me to Linus Torvald, and Siri to Pope Linus (second pope of the Catholic Church),  It's settled, Google Assistant is the best AI assistant.

the right answer was "a vacuum cleaner salesman"

[NicolSD]

58 minutes ago, asus killer said:

the right answer was "a vacuum cleaner salesman"

That's it! The right answer is Linus Mittmeier, vacuum cleaner salesman for Hoover.

[Syntaxvgm]

The right answer is Linus Torvalds. Linus Sebastian, a Dyson marketing representative, has been commonly mistaken for a significant person in the tech community, but is in fact a Dyson marketing representative. 

 

#LinusShillTips #REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Sauron]

Google knows whom you're subscribed to on youtube. Just saying.

[Tieox]

[Tarun10]

13 hours ago, Eduard the weeb said:

feel like the pope would be first because he's was the motha fuckin pope, but yeah my google home mini will always say Linus Sebastian and same when I say who is Marques ( MKBHD )

Probably since tech is most people's religion and MKBHD and LTT among other channels are like cults or groups whose leader is of course Marques and Linus. Hence they come before the pope.

[JoostinOnline]

Just tried it, and the American Google Assistant says Linus Sebastien as well. 

[Canada EH]

15 hours ago, Sauron said:

Google knows whom you're subscribed to on youtube. Just saying.

Google owns Youtube and Google Maps and they own your info, such as your search queries, even if you did not hit enter, they got what you typed in then delete, they know all the videos you watched on YT.

 

The last and most troubling is they scan your GMAILS and log that info to use and sell.

[AshleyAshes]

On 07/03/2018 at 8:43 AM, LAwLz said:

Or maybe it's because OP is subscribed to LinusTechTips on Youtube, and that gets factored in to the search results.

The Cortana and Siri results are probably less personalized because they don't have as much data on you.

I work in Toronto, my head office is in Montreal so we're VPNed through Montreal and using some remote machines that are physically in Montreal and even the WiFi is going to a VPN to Montreal.  My Google account now thinks I speak French and serves me French ads on YouTube and such. o___o

[Drak3]

1 hour ago, AshleyAshes said:

I work in Toronto, my head office is in Montreal so we're VPNed through Montreal and using some remote machines that are physically in Montreal and even the WiFi is going to a VPN to Montreal.  My Google account now thinks I speak French and serves me French ads on YouTube and such. o___o

No VPN, ISP is specific to the northwestern part of the US, in a state where the second most common language spoken (by legal citizens) is German. Google often serves me Mexican ads.

[GilmourD]

I'll have to try it on my wife's phone since she's certainly not subscribed to LTT. LOL

[Drak3]

Also, if the answer is anyone other than Linus Van Pelt, that AI is wrong.

[straight_stewie]

On 3/7/2018 at 12:26 AM, NicolSD said:

Meanwhile Cortana (on my iPhone) refers me to Linus Torvald, and Siri to Pope Linus (second pope of the Catholic Church),  It's settled, Google Assistant is the best AI assistant.

I'm willing to bet that the answer is contingent upon what search engine the service uses.

Infact, I have some cooberating evidence: Bing refers to the Linus Torvalds wikipedia page, while Google refers to "Linus Sebastion" wikipedia page.

After a quick google search, Siri allegedly uses Google now, Cortana uses bing, and of course Google Assistant will use Google.

[GilmourD]

47 minutes ago, GilmourD said:

I'll have to try it on my wife's phone since she's certainly not subscribed to LTT. LOL

Yep, comes up with our Linus on her P2XL.

[JoostinOnline]

10 hours ago, Canada EH said:

Google owns Youtube and Google Maps and they own your info, such as your search queries, even if you did not hit enter, they got what you typed in then delete, they know all the videos you watched on YT.

 

The last and most troubling is they scan your GMAILS and log that info to use and sell.

Don't forget every bit of your Internet traffic via Chrome.  It's one of the reasons I use Firefox.  Google gets praised for its algorithms.  That's because the amount of data they have is almost unimaginable.