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Its my computer device. Only I should have say on what shit is installed on it and runs on it.
Which is exactly why there's also an effort to kill home computer ownership. Capitalists hate all the pesky competition they have to compete with that makes their enshitified products look like shit.
It's cool how they've broken assistant so badly that commands like "Call Mom" and "Set a timer for 20 minutes" no longer work for me the majority of the time.
I'll never forget; 2014, iOS 8 had just come along with some huge advances in Siri. I'm driving across West London to pick up my wife, who's just text me about something. I figured I'd reply by dictating the message to Siri.
After five attempts and absolutely zero success, I just pulled over and tapped out a text.
Apart from setting the odd timer, I don't think I ever used Siri again after that. Not on purpose, any way.
I tried to set a reminder yesterday and is proceeded to search Google for "set a reminder for 9pm". AI is making my phone less useful and it's infuriating. Even worse, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I guess it depends on geminis mood?
What's worse is they've added it to Android Auto. A couple days ago I told it to call my wife and it proceeded to search for local businesses containing my wife's name.
Luckily you can disable it... For now!
It's awesome that one of the best features of my TV, "Find my remote" has been completely broken. Paid extra for the fancy Bluetooth remote and everything, and now it's completely worthless. Every time I ask, I get "Sorry, I'm not set up to do that" despite it being something that I've been doing the past 5 years without issue
"Set an alarm" is similarly totally fucked now. I used to use the Google assistant for simple stuff like that, but now it's way easier to just open the clock app and set the reminder myself. Then they added a widget/shortcut to identify the song playing in the room, and now I don't need the assistant at all.
Use android and don't have any of this enabled. That's not to say I'm an anti-Ai purist. If I want to do a query I open an app and then close it when I'm done. This work flow just works so much better than having some sort of constant monitoring trying to be available when not needed. From Clippy to Gemini the idea of lurking pro-active Ai assistance has failed. This needs to be a pull function not a push.
Gemini has now replaced the default "dumb" assistant in android auto. On my drive home from picking my daughter up from preschool, she wanted to listen to Golden from KPOP Demon Hunters. Gemini gave me several sentences about how much it liked the song, then asked if I needed anything else. Then it failed to actually start the song playing. Half of the time it assumes I'm asking it to play a video on YouTube and says it can't do that while driving, so I have to specify to play using my music app.
just another peice of data trash to dump at the earliest opportunity. they keep trying to fix problems they create
All this chatgpt and Gemini etc shit is a front to get government surveillance Ai data centers built.
None of this is about us, it's about New government and transitioning to a modern digital age of profiling, surveillance, and control.
We are being played out.
It's like nuclear arms race for the future control of the world.
God is dead. Universe is dead. We are slaves already and our last thread of connection to natural humanity and essence is going to be taken.
And everyone that complains about it helped fund it for decades buying all the stupid shit that they never needed to entertain themselves instead of seeking truth.
Even the debates against chatgpt etc are a distraction... They are building the surveillance state while everyone complains.... Because they know that's how psychology works.
I wouldn't doubt it if some of the healthcare info hacks happening are sponsored and that data is being used to beta their new profiling. Kind of like how they torrented for llm.
Well yeah my limited experience is an android auto update replaced Assistant with Gemini, and now it can't do anything new, only the same things much slower and with occasional really weird results. Totally worth all the lay offs and resources hogging.
Eh, I use Gemini to project manage my little herb garden. Low stakes, well trodden ground. It was the kind of thing I knew LLMs could handle for stuff I do know about, so I'm trusting it for something I don't know about.
Ultimately it doesn't matter if my herbs live or die, I know I'll kill them on my own though. Gardening isn't a skill I want to actively acquire, I just want the herbs. It (the garden) is doing fine. I had some yellow leaves, the bot said to top dress it, I did, no more yellow leaves. So far so good.
Anything beyond the well trodden LLMs are shit at though. I tried to use it to find a specific motorcycle part, discontinued by the manufacturer: it couldn't. When I wanted it to shop for me, it failed. It seems to be doing well managing this non-commercial project for me.
The two greatest problems in handheld assistants is speech recognition and command integration.
Gemini solves neither of those, and I was already complaining about Google's crappy assistant long before the LLM era lol.
I could be wrong, but why hasn't someone just bothered gluing openai whisper to something like voice attack from elite dangerous?
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. AI can eat the entirety of my arse.
