Hey Siri

Siri, Apple's Virtual Assistant

We all know about Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant, that is of 2024, is now 13 years old. Hard to believe, right?

But what is the story of Apple’s sometimes sarcastic response assistant?

It turns out that Siri is a spin-off from the Stanford Research Institute’s Artificial Intelligence Center and is an offshoot of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s funded CALO project. SRI International used the NABC Framework to define the value proposition for Siri. The Apple virtual assistant called Siri was launched in 2011 and quickly became a cultural phenomenon.

125 fun things to ask Siri: