Allison Johnson at The Verge tried the new Siri AI:

Siri AI working well depends a lot on the AI understanding context. So far, it’s doing pretty well. I asked it when I needed to return some camera gear I rented for WWDC, and it found the information from a calendar event I’d made and in an email (it’s due back Friday, for the record). Likewise, prompting it with something like “add these events to my calendar” will consistently trigger it to reference the information on my screen. So far, so good.

“So far, so good” was also the gist of Joanna Stern’s verdict during John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live event on Tuesday evening.

(I’m still in the waiting line for the new Siri, 48 hours later. I’m not bitter, nope.)

As a conversationalist, new Siri also seems a bit more dispassionate than Gemini. I gave them both the same prompt asking why the flowers in front of my house seemed to be wilting. They both gave wordy responses with a lot of possible causes, but Gemini’s started with “That is incredibly frustrating…” where Siri was more direct and got right into diagnosing the situation.

That alone is a reason to use Siri AI over other chatbots. I’m not a fan of the sycophancy and faux humanism.