Joanna Stern made an AI bot that can answer all your iPhone 16 questions [Video]

Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal is an expert at coming up with clever and inventive new angles for her Apple product reviews. For this year’s iPhone 16 launch, Joanna tried something entirely new by creating “Joannabot,” which she describes as a “generative-AI buddy who never tires of answering your iPhone 16 questions—especially whether it’s worth an upgrade.”

Joanna and the WSJ team fed the generative AI bot a decade of her iPhone review excerpts, iPhone specs from Apple, and her notes after a week of testing the iPhone 16. The result? An interactive chatbot – powered by Google’s Gemini Flash large language model – that can answer all of your questions about the iPhone 16, feature comparison, make upgrade suggestions, and more.

Why a bot? Well, with iPhones, it’s starting to feel very “Groundhog Day”—similar, year after year. Plus, you might be looking for something my review didn’t address. Joannabot is more open-ended. And since Apple is now all about …