> Does Siri lack a lot of smarts to ask random questions and give the answer? yes, But I found when I switched to HomePod the things I normally do (like weather

> Does Siri lack a lot of smarts to ask random questions and give the answer? yes, But I found when I switched to HomePod the things I normally do (like weather, timers, and similar) Siri did better Disclaimer- I have never worked on Siri and don’t know. But this smacks of “hard coding” the common cases, something that apple is much more likely to do than google or some of the other big tech companies because of how poorly it scales. For me this is not evidence at all that Apple has caught up in the ML space, just that they have good enough speech to text and better UX people willing to invest in identifying and manually outlining a lot of cases.