Siri, the app Apple acquired from a promising Palo Alto startup once upon a time, for close-ended, fixed phrase commands hasn't changed that much for accomplishing Apple-specific tasks. However, yes, going out to the interwebs or answering open-ended questions is more problematic now than it used to be.<p>Amazon's Echo has also enshitified such that many skills don't work and command phrases that used to work no longer give the same results. I used to be able to ask Echo "What's the IMDB rating for [movie name]?" but it invariably gives an unrelated or a wrong answer or does a HAL-9000.<p>It seems like an obvious category killer app to have an AI personal assistant able to perform free-form queries and operate on allowed services with a degree of trust and care so that it can't email everyone you've ever known a photo without a high level of interactive confirmation.