Google Assistant Reigns Supreme Over Siri, Alexa and Cortana in Yet Another Search Test

Virtual assistants are everywhere, and one of the most popular offshoots of the AI trend that'due south sweeping the tech world. With so many AI assistants around, there is e'er a debate about which is the smartest? And like a few of these tests in the past, Google Assistant seems to be the reply in the latest ane conducted past Loup Ventures.

In theAnnual Digital Assistant IQ Test conducted by Loup Ventures, the Google Assistant reigned supreme over Siri, Alexa, and Cortana on mobile. The examination was conducted to assess their smart capabilities on a smartphone, and the Google Assistant outsmarted its competitors on multiple parameters.

As part of the exam, the virtual assistants were asked around 800 questions related to the post-obit five categories:

Local and geographical cognition
Questions related to commerce like product query and ordering goods
Navigation capabilities
General queries about TV shows, films, artists, etc.
Commands to accomplish tasks such as setting an alarm and playing a podcast among others

During the examination, the Google Assistant was able to answer 86% of the questions correctly, while Apple'south Siri stood at 79%. Amazon's Alexa took the third spot by correctly responding to 61% of the questions during the assessment, while Microsoft'south Cortana lagged much farther behind with but 52% of the questions answered correctly.

While Google Banana beat the other three virtual assistants past a sizeable margin, it'due south victory was not absolute, as the Google Banana lagged backside iOS in 1 primal area, and that is obeying the command of users. "We institute Siri to be slightly more helpful and versatile (responding to more than flexible language) in controlling your telephone, smart dwelling house, music, etc. Our question fix also includes a off-white amount of music-related queries (the most mutual activeness for smart speakers)", read the report.

One area where the Google Banana left the contest far behind is in the sheer amount of information it can replenish for a query, which is not a surprise given Google'southward search roots. Likewise, when it comes to improvements over the past year, the Google Assistant took the pole position ahead of Siri, Alexa and Cortana. So it's looking more and more than like Google Assistant's lead to lose, even if Siri is getting smarter with iOS 12.