The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri 

Imagine someone casually watching this video, suddenly recognizing one of their emails (like at 3:00) and only now finding out that person hated them after all.

Imagine getting dumped via email 20+ years ago, only to have that memory unlocked while harmlessly watching a RU-vid video... poor Jason. 🤣Shout out to Kyle, too.

I like the idea of him waking up after a long night of eating dino nuggets like "oh god what did i do last night?" covered in crumbs and fried nugget bits

Lol one of the uses for the Enron emails is "fraud detection". Really couldn't have found a better dataset there...

I love how sam has been carefully training us to watch longer, better quality videos over the past few months.

I have several times had the job of reading through emails like this. I am a lawyer and hae worked document review a bunch of times. Assume that strangers WILL read your corporation's emails at some point. Companies get involved in litigation and then send massive quantities of emails to teams of young lawyers fresh out of law school to look for anything that is relevant to the case. In the process, they read EVERYTHING (depending on the budget, smaller budget cases may rely on searches, but usually that isn't considered sufficient). I've seen adult material, discussions of affairs, and all kinds of other things. I wasn't particularly the type to talk about the juicy emails with my colleagues... but some people were. They take confidentiality seriously, so the emails don't leave the secure setting. But people will discuss them in that setting and discuss them without names attached in other places.

Hey Siri how's the weather tomorrow? -What the f*** is The Lion King? Excuse me!? -The movie is a movie where a kid bullies ants. What...

I still have more unread emails

Hey Siri, what would be a good comment

I've uploaded this data set (or a portion of it) thousands of times to run performance tests. Shoutouts to Andy Zipper.

“Hey dale I found another novelty nappy” Siri in 2024:

GI/GO isn't just an AI idea. It's been around pretty much since the beginning of computer science.

My old house mate was doing an internship when ENRON went down. He was on all front pages of newspapers with a a box of his office supplies. I don’t know what he does now, but when Enron collapsed his face was everywhere. Smart guy but just at the wrong company at the wrong time.

"Re: I Love You" got a good laugh out of me.

Just a note from a sociolinguist, for us at least vernacular speech is the gold standard and a holy grail and we don't pay undergrads to just talk. We go to speech communities we want to study and conduct sociolinguist interviews where we try to basically elicit stories about people's lives and experiences because they're much more likely to have a relaxed, normal speech that they aren't self monitoring.

The videos are getting longer, they are no longer Half as Interesting, they are atleast 3 Quarters as Interesting

I taught English in Tbilisi for a year. "Siri" means "penis" in Georgian! 🤣🤣🤣

siri gotta be one of the worst assistants ever made

That guy had two guesses for his question "What the fuck is Lion King?", which were "like disney on ice" or "some kind of porn thing". Idk how the hell he went from some sort of Disney thing to thinking it might be some kind of adult entertainment lol

Seeing the emails used as examples in this video make me realize how realistic the terminal entries in The Outer Worlds are

"If I eat dino nuggets for half my meals in a given week, I feel like a dinosaur..."

"Garbage in garbage out" has been a programming phrase for decades. As always, love your videos, love your channel

5:29 Heyy thats the place I work at now! SRI's rarely mentioned anywhere despite the technology they've invented, I'm just surprised to see Sam bringing it up.

I've always been blown away by how much 'personal use' company email is used for. I've know very intelligent people use their work email for a variety of things that in hindsight are just a very bad idea. I've never got that.

So that’s why Siri keeps trying to tell me about mark to market invoicing, and how I should defraud Pacific energy companies whenever I ask for directions to Chipotle.

So what you’re saying is, we need to look out for accounting and securities fraud from Siri

Hi Sam! I'm so proud of Amy for reading each and every one of those 517,431 emails for the juicy details. She deserves a raise!

"Boring nonsense"? WTF, that email about "Canadian's Testicles Torn-Off, Girlfriend Charged" boring? I think not.

Citizen Kane is a cartoon of a man torturing ants.

How do you not know what the Lion King is by 2002???

I always enjoy HAI videos, but this one was a cut above the rest. Very fun and interesting.

still waiting for that logistics of hello fresh video, a real happy episode

Sam mocking Dino nuggets and saying they'd make me feel bad is what made me unsubscribe. It's clearly the 5G waves not the 317 Dino Nuggets i ate since the beginning of May.

The e at the end of in Deutsche Bank is not silent. It never is in German. Straße, Hase, Name, etc.

This is actually very interesting and funny. Good work :))

3:14 "Canadian's Testicles Torn off, Girlfriend Charged" Wait wat?

garbage in, garbage out was one of my CS professors favorite thing to say

What a weirdly interesting video! Would love to see this on Brain Blaze in the Whistlerverse

The term "garbage in garbage out" isn't new and it isn't from AI, it just also applies to AI as it applies to any data processing system.

Absolutely loved all the subtle Texan references in the emails due to their being in Houston. I do wish I could’ve heard more about their escapades on 6th St and how Sam thinks “Gruene” is pronounced.

Fun fact: Blockbuster invented streaming before streaming was a thing. Unfortunately, they partnered with Enron for their internet services and, well, we all know what happened with Enron.

Never heared of those emails, well, now I have^^

and now Google uses the entirety of Reddit for their dataset which results in things like "one Reddit user suggested jumping off the Golden gate Bridge"

That's really interesting. 90's office work was wild.

Another classic video. This was about half as interesting as any other!!

yoo homer simpson's email on thumbnail

This video has just made me *really* want to download all of these emails to sort through them for that hot goss.

Oh god i have not slept yet, stayed up long enough for a new HAI video

Goddamn the people at Enron were freaky

This is WILD on so many levels! What a cool thing to learn how computers learned. Also didn't know Siri was a separate entity before she was bought by Apple. Also I guess a lot of these ex Enron employees are finding out how others in the company hated them LOL

Now, Siri gets trained on the writings of underpaid Nigerian crowdworkers instead! A great improvement.

Holy shoot, poor Susan. That e-mail was cringey af.

no longer bored

7:14 Glad to see you are hanging out in Vegas now

I could never imagine sending anything half as personal as these emails through my work email 😂

I kept hearing “Enron Porpoise” 🐬

So who do I have to pay to get that version of Enron Siri? 😂

Lab grown conversation. 😂

5:40 just gonna look at this in silence for a few minutes

Personally I really want an assistant that talks like an unethical energy exec in the 90s

I own the Enron ethics manual from 2001.

Love your videos

How does hai even come up with such good ideas?

And this is exactly why you don't use your work email (or any work tech) for anything else other than work... 😅

Hey Siri, how should i explain how good the animations of "Sam" are getting really good

Hey everyone working in a company. You as an individual, don't break law rule one. Do not write down your crimes. Don't ask for advice on your crimes in an email. Whenever you're writing an email, ask yourself if this is an email you'd like being read aloud in court. In the same vein, if anyone ever asks or implies you should break some laws, make them write it in an email to you. A good old "okay sure I can do that, can you send me an email to remind me?" This way your company can be taken down without hurting you.

6:27 "... but is not very reflective of what happens in Citizen Kane" But maybe is for "Them!"?

Oh, the privacy violations. Hate to be one of those email senders/receivers.

I really don't understand why people haven't figured out that, if you're planning something illegal, immoral, or fattening, you don't do it over text or email. That seems obvious to me. You could use strong encryption but, to defeat traffic analysis, you'd have to encrypt _everything,_ even the most banal and innocuous messages. If you only encrypt the good stuff, it will stick out like a sore thumb.

So Siri is GLaDOS now

Why didn't google just train smart compose on their own corporate emails?

I guarantee that Siri and modern text AIs are absolutely trained on data scraped from public information online, or private posts from sites owned by the company that owns the AI, and only a small part of the training set is taken from existing text databases, free or otherwise. This was something I worked on about ten years ago for a targeted marketing company and it was shockingly easy to train a neural net on this stuff. As much as I want to hope that's changed--come on, of course not.

I only watch on here and not nebula to see how good I am at guessing the sponsor.

“I searched the web, and Sam, is indeed, a los- *YEET*

2:05 This will go into the next "All mistakes made" video, lol, unless "Enronyees" was an intentional wordplay

Genuinely curious: how is releasing private individual emails to the public legal? I thought it was a basic protection even for convicted criminals, let alone suspected ones.

Is this the guy from Jet Lag the Game?

Let us all thank the youtube algorithm, that HAI videos are now 8 to 9mins instead of 4 to 5

Houston mentioned!

4:44 Oh the AI sparkles haha!

Siri apparently watched Jet Lag Seasons 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9 to come up with her "Sam is a loser" conclusion.

How come half of Siri's answers aren't: "FWD: FWD: FWD: Opportunity"?

I saw a guy with an Enron Polo earlier today. This is an insane coincidence.

Sam’s voice tricked my husband’s Siri!

Is thst why Siri used to send you to the pier to get rid of the body

5:42 green shorts guy 😏

Hey Siri, what would be a boring first liner for a video? I found this on the web

The amount of times this video set off my Siri was record setting

now my phone tells me the weather {actor looks out window seeing the weather}, cheers!

fun fact, the first fee lines will break carplay

Why are there as many employees as gen 1 Pokemon...?

0:15 YEET

But imagine if a kid asked Siri what's Lion King and she answers, "I don't know what the *@#^ that is,".

Let’s go new video dropped

YAYYY HAI morning video

Good morning!

The intro 😂😂😂

The real ones know why I can never look at a serious factor at again

Sad that a lot of people at Enron who weren’t breaking the law had their personal lives exposed to the world. Good vid.

0:25 I'd joke about the US government using torrents, but on second thought, I'm absolutely sure some department somewhere actually does and has a valid reason for it