As AI moves on, it’s time for Apple’s Siri to grow up – Telegraph.co.uk

My first encounter with Siri was back in 2011, when Apples voice-activated artificial intelligence was first released.

I was completing university; the BlackBerry was still popular and I was one of a handful in my class with the new iPhone that had the robot assistant built in.

The technology was pretty basic at the time: it struggled with some accents and the commands it could respond to were fairly limited.

So early on Siri was something of a novelty, rather than genuinely useful. Six years later, BlackBerry is all but gone and the iPhone reigns, but what hasnt changed is Siris novelty feel.

Its voice recognition has improved dramatically (I suspect even the thickest regional accent wouldnt trip it up), and Apple has added lots of new features, but I doubt most iPhone users take advantage of it regularly.

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As AI moves on, it's time for Apple's Siri to grow up - Telegraph.co.uk