NY Times Compares Digital Assistants

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/17/technology/alexa-siri-conversation.html

On my iPhone telling Siri “Add these things to the shopping list” got the result from Siri: “OK, Things added ‘these’ to the shopping list”.

Generally, though, Siri is more “conversational” in tone than Alexa – Alexa is strange. A friend has Google Home and it misunderstands simple questions frequently.