Siri , Apple 's voice assistant , experienced an outage on three weeks ago . iPhone has not commented on the reported outage . `` Not only is AI still in its infancy -- a condition it 's been in for more than half a century -- but it relies in its current incarnation on networks and servers whose unreliability you can bank on , '' Philip Elmer-DeWitt wrote on Fortune 's Apple 2.0 blog . ` Philip Elmer-DeWitt is a feature of the new iPhone 4S that answers questions . Some Apple owners have come to depend on her since phone 's release Thursday .
Siri , Apple 's voice assistant , experienced an outage on three weeks ago . iPhone has not commented on the reported outage . Philip Elmer-DeWitt is a feature of the new iPhone 4S that answers questions . Some Apple owners have come to depend on her since phone 's release Thursday .