Fuhgeddaboudit! Artificial intelligence has hard time with NYC, NJ, LI accents

Hey ChatGPT — you talking to me? If Siri and Alexa tend to misunderstand a lot of your requests, it could be that accent. A new survey suggests the distinct intonations of folks from New York City, New Jersey and Long Island are amongst the hardest for artificial intelligence technology to decipher. To absolutely no one’s surprise, Southern drawls top the list as the hardest accents for AI voice-recognition programs to understand, according to language resource site Guide2Fluency. “Words like ‘y’all’ and ‘fixin’ to’ can be particularly perplexing for AI,...