David Pogue: ‘125 Tests of the New AI Siri’
David Pogue: The hardest part will be getting out of the habit of opening apps, and remembering that you have Siri. Give it a few tries. Learn to trust it. You’ll save incredible amounts of time and fumbling. I used the beta-test version all summer, growing more and more excited. Now that the final version is out, I wanted to see how often it gets things right. It is AI, after all. So I ran it…
David Pogue conducted a series of 125 tests on the newly released AI-powered Siri, following the release of iOS 27. The hardest part for him was getting used to using Siri instead of manually opening apps. He encourages users to give it a few tries and to trust the technology. Pogue found that over time, he grew increasingly excited about the capabilities of Siri.
For the tests, he tried various tasks, some of which were explicitly stated by Apple to be possible with the AI. He also drew inspiration from Reddit users who had experimented with Siri, as well as from his own curiosity. Some of the tests failed, but others yielded impressive results.
One of the standout moments was when Siri performed tasks that Pogue never would have anticipated it could do. Since using iOS 27 with the new Siri AI since the week after WWDC, the biggest challenge for Pogue has been remembering to utilize Siri when tasks can be accomplished more efficiently with it. He often resorts to doing things manually, then thinks "I should have tried that with Siri," and later discovers that Siri could have indeed performed the task.
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