
Since Apple released the new iPhone 4s and its revolutionary voice-activated personal assistant, Siri, a cottage industry of blogs has emerged tracking the program's amusing and sometimes surprisingly on-point reactions to the aburd, aggressive, or obscene comments and questions its users throw at it.
Here at Foreign Policy, we were wondering how Siri would do tackling some of the world's toughest questions on international affairs. The results were, well, mixed. (Special thanks to Michael Shear of the New York Times for lending us his new phone.)
First, the Herman Cain test:
Who is the president of Uzbekistan?
Not bad! Let's try a toughter one, a question that also stumped the pizza Godfather.
Would you negotiate with terrorists?
Hmm, she's not going to win Iowa with an indecisive answer like that. What about some current events?
Who is the leader of Libya?
Not sure. That's OK. Nobody really is. Let's try something a little more controversial.
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