Bizarre Google Assistant bug suggests it thinks Siri is a rat
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google’s voice assistant has a peculiar bug when you ask it about rodents – and one that may be unflattering to its competitors. Users asking Google Assistant whether it likes rats, it appears to be subtly insulting the Siri voice assistant found on Apple’s smartphones and computers. Google Assistant, and other voice assistants like it, convert a voice command into a text input, then from text into intent, and finally works out some possible answers to what has been posed to it. In 2018, Apple’s Siri voice assistant infamously thought that Donald Trump was a penis, due to someone vandalizing the current president’s Wikipedia page and Siri pulling the information from there.
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