Microsoft CEO Trashes Siri and Alexa for Being 'Dumb as a Rock'

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Microsoft CEO Trashes Siri and Alexa for Being 'Dumb as a Rock'
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No minced words here.

" while demoing Cortana, was overtly comparing digital assistants to Microsoft's newer, OpenAI-powered Bing Search, it certainly seems that way.

And to Nadella's credit, in a lot of ways Bing Search is already more advanced than the Siris and Alexas of yesteryear. If you ask Siri, for example, to build a workout plan for you from scratch, it can't — it can only find a pre-made program online via conventional search.

"Fundamentally, [generative AI] will enable that breadth and flexibility and complexity that has not existed with the previous generation of voice assistants," Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer told the

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