You know how your digital voice assistant like Siri or Alexa is “just okay” at understanding you and giving you helpful answers to your questions? Yeah . . . they do even WORSE when there are actual stakes.
According to a new study out of the University of Alberta in Canada, voice assistants are NOT a reliable source of information during a life-or-death emergency.
The researchers asked 123 different critical first aid questions about things like heart attacks, poisonings, and choking to the four most common digital voice assistants: Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana.
And they found that Google gave acceptable medical advice 56% of the time . . . Alexa came in at 19% . . . and Siri and Cortana NEVER came through.
So if there’s a real emergency, it’s a better bet to call 911. (Study Finds)
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