Well spare a thought for all those people in the world who share their name with the digital assistant.

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence system that can solve Captcha challenges, rendering them "broken" and "ineffective". The security check is designed to block potentially harmful bots from websites, and does so by presenting puzzles that are supposed to be easy for people to solve, but very difficult for computers. They've been around since the late 1990s and have long been considered extremely annoying, but experts believe it could soon be time for them to be replaced. The researchers, from a company called Vicarious, managed to build an AI system – called the Recursive Cortical Network (RCN) – that approaches Captcha challenges in much the same way that a human would. "With one model, we achieve an accuracy rate of 66.6% on reCAPTCHAs, 64.4% on BotDetect, 57.4% on Yahoo, and 57.1% on PayPal, all significantly above the 1% rate at which CAPTCHAs are considered ineffective," they wrote in a blog post.