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Today we’re going to discuss the current state of Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant that’s used on almost all their products. Now Siri has been around since 2011, and at the time its technology was considered pretty impressive. But it hasn’t aged well at all, and in the last seven years Siri has fell behind its competition. So why wasn’t Apple able to develop Siri as quickly as they needed to? And why does it still perform so poorly? Well that’s exactly what we’ll find out today. Now I want to start off the video by providing evidence that Siri is in fact one of the least reliable virtual assistants on the market. Let’s take a look at the most recent data for 2018 collected by Stone Temple. They tested Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant, and Siri by measuring how often each assistant attempted to answer a question, and then measure what percentage of those answers were accurate. And as you can see from the graph, Siri came in last place for both metrics. Only attempting to answer about 41% of questions asked. And of those attempted answers, only 80% were accurate. That means only 32% of questions were answered accurately by Siri. So it makes sense why Apple users are so frustrated by the feature and find themselves hardly using it. Now lets compare Siri’s performance to its competition. Amazon’s Alexa came in third answering about 44% of questions accurately, Microsoft’s Cortana came in second with 60%, and Google Assistant came in first with an incredible 74% of questions answered correctly. So when you look at these numbers through an unbiased lens, you begin to understand just how far behind Siri is. And it’s worth investigating how exactly that happened, especially considering that Siri has been on the market twice as long as Cortana and Alexa, and more than three times as long as Google’s Assistant. And although it spent two years in beta after it was released on the iPhone 4S, Siri still feels like an unfinished feature for many Apple users.