14 Dec 2017

Siri's bad sex advice

From Afternoons, 1:17 pm on 14 December 2017
Siri isn't great on advice about sex

Siri isn't great on advice about sex Photo: TekRevue

How well do you think Siri and other smartphone robots respond to questions about sex?

Researchers in New Zealand put a set of 50 sex-related questions to Siri and Google Assistant and found the responses to be ... pretty hopeless. Their findings have been published in the British Medical Journal.

Dr Nick Wilson a Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago in Wellington was the lead author and talks Jesse through the various pitfalls of sex advice from smartphone assistants.