It barely works even today, like Siri is laughably bad.

I mean the examples he gave definitely work. Mostly well I'd say as they are pretty primitive.

What Siri is missing is more logical solutions and answers for recipes, etc (still suck even with chatgpt integration).

Works, sometimes. But they can fail spectacularly and unexpectedly even on very basic questions/instructions, like so simple that a hand-coded word-matching style logic could get them right 20 years ago.