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Can't profit without AI! /s
Do people use Assistant for more than just reminders, weather, and directions? Lol Just curious because that's all I use it for.
"set a timer for X minutes" And "set an alarm for X AM" are super helpful
I've tried one extra layer of complexity - "Remind me to water the plants when I get home" or something like that. It has no idea what I'm asking it to do despite knowing the "remind me" phrase and knowing where my home is.
It used to work years ago. It's not a technology problem. They changed their policy around location based reminders. One of the reasons I'm degoogling. I got rid of apple products too when they got rid of Google maps in favour of apple maps. Forcing a poorer product on users shows contempt for users.
But you can install any map app you like? There are plenty of legitimate reasons to not use an iPhone, but that's not one of them.
Can install, but can’t default them.
Also a slightly degraded experience compared to the OEM app.
Add X to Y list is great for when you run out of something in the kitchen.
X is already on my Why? list.
Simple timers, controlling the lights, background music, reminders, and occasionally thing like "how many tablespoons in a pint".
I don't ask it for the weather because I don't want a 30 second lecture on the weather, and it won't give me "cold now, hot later, might rain between".
Given that Gemini seem to be unable to give short answers, and it can't control stuff, it's missing most of what I require.
Odd I seem to be able to control all my IOT devices no problem so far from Gemini with voice commands over the phone. This includes all smart switches, lights, thermostats, and so on in my house
It seems to function a little quicker in response with the voice commands IMO.
Oh interesting. I'll have to check it out again. When I first tried it I asked it to turn off the lights and it said it couldn't interact with the outside world, a d some searching said they hadn't implemented that yet, so away it went.
You use the assistant?
I do a job where my hands are potentially full and I cannot touch my phone for extended periods of time. I use the assistant for as much as it will let me...
I've only ever activated it by accident (I think it's double-click the power button on my phone). Never actually used the thing.
yay, more nonsense added to stock android (degoogle now)
After being on Graphene for the past 2 years,I decided to reinstall with no google at all,since my bank app now works without any google services dependencies.
hooray for me,I'm finally free and can profit from multiuser installed sandboxed services in another user profile if needed.
Glad to be out of this downward spiral.
I need a degoogle wiki to all me through all the things I can do to degoogle and what conveniences I might loose and potential workarounds for them. E.g. I spent a few hours getting rid of chrome, but then found out that if I want to use maps from my home screen, I can't use the search bar and I need another button on my homescreen. Also, apparently I use the images tab on Google often, and ddg doesn't have an images filter.
So anyway, without good replacements for my typical workflow, I end up just adding inconvenience and still falling back on the old workflows when I can't figure out how to get what I need degoogled.
I can't wait for home assistant assist to be good enough to replace Gemini as a assistant. Without the need for an llm
I knew they were going to end up going full gemini, but this seems too soon to pull such shenanigans, considering it's still slow to respond, can't do several things that assistantcan do, and is 100% useless when not on data.
in fact it can only interact with your phone by generating google assistant commands and passing them on
And it still won't be as useful as Google Now
Is this gonna be one of those tech bandwagon things that Google fails at so consistently? You know, like Google phones, Google Plus, Google Pay, Google Stadia, Google Your Poodle, etc.
Google phones are some of the most popular in the marketplace (and their os is the most popular in the world) and Google pay works absolutely fine - I use it everyday, albeit with the new name of wallet.
Google pay and google phones are failures?
Both are THE standard for their respective industries, what you on about?
Make yourself a favor, delete this crap and instead use a real open source (means apache2) AI that performs even better than chatgpt4 or Google ai. Get Mistral 7B.
It's default? When I downloaded it, I had to manually choose Gemini to be the default. It wasn't set like that for me.
Haha, Google. I already type my dumb questions at DuckDuckGo
Srsly... Gemini is pretty cool tho. When I want an AI at least. (Rarely)
What if I don't use Assistant? Does it still have access to other parts of my phone?
It looks like you can switch the assistant to the old one, and then turn that one off.
But just like Microsoft, Google is going to use this technology everywhere. If in the future (or now, if it is already available to you), you use features to describe images, summarize data, create texts, you probably will be using some form of Gemini.
I'm confused. There is no assistant app as far as I can tell. It seems to just be part of the OS.
I don't see a Gemini app either though.
it's not as if the default assistant was actually good. can't make it any worse, at least
And somehow they did. It can't interact with things like lights that the other one can.
