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The lost decade

If you’ve had a play with ChatGPT, you probably have a very obvious question: why don’t digital assistants Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have such advanced conversational skills as the chatbot that has taken the internet by storm?

After all, Amazon has had the Alexa Echo voice assistant devices on the market since 2014. Siri, Apple’s voice assistant built into its Mac computers, iPhones, smartwatches and home

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