> Do they? I can completely fathom, given my own anecdotal experiences, how garbage Siri quality is today.
Siri is a dead end. When Jobs bought Siri (what, 10 years ago?) he explicitly junked almost all the AI back end, mainly buying the speech recognition engine. I didn't understand why and still don't (but strangely he didn't ask me :-).
John Giannandrea has run Apple's AI effort for the past five or six years. He is the reason Google has a big AI effort (he consolidated a bunch of AI projects and bought Deep Mind, etc) before he decamped for Apple. For all I know the Siri team isn't even part of his remit.
You can never look into Apple (even if you work there) so one can only speculate based on what visible signs appear. But Siri isn't one of them.