Well, besting it in one key area at least. Loup Ventures, the investment firm run by known analyst Gene Munster conducted a virtual assistant IQ test amongst the leading industry candidates. Involved in the test were Alexa, Cortana, Siri, and Google Assistant. Google Assistant was victorious, answering 86% of the 800 questions correctly. Maybe that’s not a surprise considering Assistant is widely regarded. However, Siri’s performance is perhaps more of note. Apple’s assistant got the better of both Cortana and Alexa.
As can be seen in the chart above, Siri answered 78.5% of the 800 questions correctly. Alexa was much less accurate with 61.4% correct. As for Cortana, Microsoft many be worried to see she answered just 52.4% of the questions correctly. This means Cortana is likely to get around half of all questions asked to her wrong. “Both the voice recognition and natural language processing of digital assistants across the board has improved to the point where, within reason, they will understand everything you say to them,” says the team at Loup Ventures.
Cortana Changes
Still, the company changed its trajectory with the assistant and is working on making it an enterprise focused service.
