From our first interviews with Siri, Alexa, and Google in 2017, to observations over the years, joyfully celebrating their birthdays.
Siri is already nine years old, Alexa is six, and Google is five years old.
At an Apple Special Event on October 4th, 2011, Siri was born. Sorry, not actually ‘born,’ more like, ‘announced,’ now becoming part of the iPhone. A year earlier, in April 2010, Steve Jobs finally managed to buy the Siri app, supposedly for over $200 million, and brought the Siri co-founders Adam Cheyer, Dag Kittlaus, and … Read more
Seven years ago, on November 6th, 2014, Alexa saw the light of day. She moved into our homes, became part of millions of families, and changed profoundly how we interact with technology at home: simply by voice. Let’s celebrate Alexa’s birthday and look into seven exciting years with our voice assistant. 2014 – Introducing the Amazon Echo … Read more
Today, on 18th May 2016, five years ago, Google Assistant and Google Home were announced at the Google I/O 2016. Time flies by for the young ones. Can you imagine our smart little fellow is already five years old? Time to celebrate and look into the highlights of our youngest assistant.
Where is my interview transcript? No, siriously? Apple does not keep a history of our conversations with Siri because they honor our privacy? Okay, need to type. She is Siri, a virtual assistant, but it does not matter who she is. Her responses to her age vary from being 45.980 years old in the ninth … Read more
Let’s start this post with an interview … Me: Alexa, how are you?Alexa: I’m excellent. I’ve got dinosaurs on my mind. If I was around back when they roamed the Earth, I wonder what they would have asked me. Maybe, “Alexa, what’s that massive fireball streaking across the sky?” Me: Alexa, how old are you?Alexa: That … Read more
As with our other assistants, I tried to interview Google Assistant. It threw me off when it started to ask back. So, here is just a summary: Google Assistant’s age is two in dog years (it does bark after that). Google Assistant was born in a meeting. At first, it was just a rough concept, now it’s … Read more
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