Google’s digital helper can not tell a joke. And Siri seemingly has a matter for the metric system.

Those are just a small number of the things I learned after staging a faceoff between the three top digital assistants.

That just about everyone can speak with their cellphone or computer, we needed to see what the results are when you attempt.

Unsurprisingly, none of the helpers are not imperfect. Astonishingly, they do have distinct characters, even if they are only willful artefacts of their originators.

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Up: Some essential questions that are factual. All three did pretty well when asked, “What Is it like outside?”

Cortana earned extra points for replying with a weather report that was verbal. Siri and Google each revealed a display picture that listed a prediction as well as present conditions.

All three provided the age of President Obama.

Likewise, they understood the span of the Golden Gate Bridge. But for some reason, Siri replied in meters, while Google and Cortana stuck to feet.

Next arrived more complex tasks, like locating the closest drugstore. Siri and Google listed three in downtown San Francisco within a half mile of The Associated Press agency. Cortana did.

Introducing questions is hungry work. Cortana and Siri were stumped, but Google mechanically fired up the Open Table program on the Nexus mobile, together with the form filled out to make a booking. The position is really fashionable; it was reserved for weeks.

(Shhh! Do not tell my editor.) All three helpers had local movie listings at their fingertips that are digital. But Siri led off with a fresh release from the AP agency at a theater only half a mile. With a few wiretaps, Siri had started a program that allows you to purchase tickets online, Fandango.

Google additionally linked with Fandango. Cortana had more problem; Microsoft lags in the amount of programs which work with its program behind Google and Apple, and I could not get the correct Fandango program to load on a Surface tablet PC.