Siri is not the same simple, charming digital assistant Apple launched with the iPhone 4s in 2011. Though always AI-based, Siri 2024 is considerably smarter than it was back then, when I asked it simple questions ("Where are the pumpkins?") and had it perform simple tasks, like scheduling a meeting.
It's had more than a decade of brain transplants to make it a better interlocutor and digital companion, but Apple has never even tried to make Siri a true ChatBot, which was fine until the world changed early last year.
