Are Siri and Cortana AI programs? Siri and Cortana communicate pretty much like humans. Unlike Google Now, which mainly gives us search results when asked some questions (not setting alarms or reminders), Siri and Cortana provide us with an answer, in the same way that a person would do.
So, are they actual AI programs or not?
(By &quot;question&quot; I don't mean any academic-related question or asking routes/ temperature, but rather opinion based question).
Siri and Cortana are AI to some extent. The usual label is &quot;weak AI&quot; (also called &quot;narrow&quot; or &quot;soft&quot; AI). It turns out the Wikipedia article on Weak AI explicitly refers to Siri:

Siri is a good example of narrow intelligence. Siri operates within a limited pre-defined range, there is no genuine intelligence, no self-awareness, no life despite being a sophisticated example of weak AI. In Forbes (2011), Ted Greenwald wrote: &quot;The iPhone/Siri marriage represents the arrival of hybrid AI, combining several narrow AI techniques plus access to massive data in the cloud.&quot; AI researcher Ben Goertzel, on his blog in 2010, stated Siri was &quot;VERY narrow and brittle&quot; evidenced by annoying results if you ask questions outside the limits of the application.

Important to note that &quot;mixing&quot; weak AIs does not make a &quot;stronger&quot; AI, by some arguments (see Searle's Chinese Room argument), but there is no consensus on this topic yet.