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At least Siri acknowledges that it doesn't have the information necessary. Google Assistant comes up with an answer, but it might as well have picked a cheese a

At least Siri acknowledges that it doesn't have the information necessary. Google Assistant comes up with an answer, but it might as well have picked a cheese at random. It's not like there's a universal cheese that pairs with all fruit. Would you have felt satisfied if you asked, "What wine goes well with dinner?" and heard "Zinfandel" in response? An actually useful AI would ask you what kind of fruit(s) you want to pair it with. Not throw out an answer at random.

RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 9y ago
> At least Siri acknowledges that it doesn't have the information necessary. I've had two failures in recent memory where Siri recognized the queries correctly, but completely misinterpreted them. "What's <time> Eastern Time in Pacific Time?" => time in Pacific, MO. "Increase volume by 10%" => lowered volume to almost 0. The latter failure took me a while to figure out: Siri had interpreted my query as set volume to 10 (out of 255?). Indeed, "increase / decrease volume by X" had the same behavior. Also, asking Siri to play a particular song whose title's in Japanese might as well be asking it to play a random song. Setting its language to Japanese helps a little, but then of course I have the inverse problem. I wish I could switch Siri's language settings verbally, or be able to say "In <language X>, <query in language X>."