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Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber

Siri with Apple Intelligence gives confident but embarrasingly wrong answers to sports trivia questions, both famous (Super Bowls) and obscure (North Dakota high school hoops).

I picked an obscure state (no offense to Dakotans, North or South), a year pretty far in the past, and the high school sport that I personally played best and care most about. When I started work this morning I thought I was simply going to link, with very little additional commentary, to Kafasis’s exhaustive “Who won Super Bowl __?” exegesis at One Foot Tsunami. If there’s any consolation for the Siri team at Apple, it’s that one other company’s AI-powered answer engine gave me an embarrassingly wrong response when asked for the 2004 North Dakota boys’ basketball champions: Google.

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