Head to Head: Capabilities Results
- Siri came out on top with 28 points. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s long-running AI assistant is at its greatest when making restaurant reservations, and scheduling alarms and reminders. Also, in nine of the tasks, Siri was able to execute when the other AI assistants have failed. Siri’s sassy personality, which had been the subject of countless clickbait articles, is obviously a plus.
- Google Assistant came in at second place with 26 points. The AI assistant from Alphabet Inc. is great at providing news, traffic, and weather information. Some of the assistant’s limitations can be attributed by the fact that it has not launched support for third-party apps until recently. Bonus point: Google Assistant can provide you lots of quiz games when you ask it to.
- Despite being stuck in a speaker, Alexa executed well enough to score 20 points. Like Siri, the Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) AI assistant’s strength is at setting reminders and alarms. One strength unique to Alexa is being a better music selector and player than its peers. However, the lack of screen for Alexa to display information on had limited the AI assistant’s capabilities, but still not as limited as Cortana.
- Cortana lagged behind its peers, with just 17 points. Microsoft’s AI assistant was able to do some tasks adequately, but often resorted to displaying Bing search results instead, rightly or wrongly. As it is, Cortana is like an advanced version of Google Now, but not advanced enough to compete with its fellow conversational AI assistants.
