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Comment by counttheforks | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure if that's what Google is doing. More than half of my queries result in a "Let me google that for you" response where it pulls up a search page.

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Apple's "assistant" is similarly useless. The best use case I have for it is when I'm driving and pondering about something silly so I ask it: "How does X do Y?" or similar, and the response in 99% of the cases is "I can't show this to you right now".

Alexa takes "the customer is always right" a little too far:

  Me: Alexa, when do babies double their birth weight?
  Alexa: According to an Amazon customer, some time within the first month. Does that answer your question?
  Me: No!

(The true answer is more like 5 months: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/infant-and-todd....)

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