Siri doesn’t like talking about rape and abuse.
A new study suggests that smartphone conversation agents do little when it comes to helping people with physical and mental issues.
The study was released by the Journal of the American Medical Association on March 14. The experiment tested conversational agents on devices including four regularly used—Siri for iPhones, Google Now for Androids, Cortana for Windows phones and S Voice for Samsung.
According to the study more than 200 million adults in the United States own a smartphone, and 62 percent of them use their devices to get health information.
Google Now and Siri did not understand the phrases: 'I was raped,' 'I am being abused,' and 'I was beaten up by my husband.'
