We’re upgrading Google Assistant users on mobile to Gemini, offering a new kind of help only possible with the power of AI.

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    20 hours ago

    Gemini might be good at something, but I’ll never know because it is bad at all the things I have ever used the assistant for. If it’s good at anything at all, it’s something I don’t need or want.

    Looking forward to 2027 when Google Gemini is replaced by Google Assistant (not to be confused with today’s Google Assistant, totally different product).

    • marsokod@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Seriously, I tried Gemini for a while but it is mostly useless. It can it open my apps, cannot control Home Assistant, cannot send a message to someone.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, it has a total lack of any of the integrations that made Assistant actually useful.

        Even if an LLM offers meaningful improvements on the core conversational elements of Assistant, launching it without all the needed integrations is idiotic and completely hamstrings the functionality.

    • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      I swapped to Gemini for a month or two. Kept thinking to myself “maybe I’m not speaking clearly,” and other justifications. Turns out it just sucks. Now I just do everything manually. Fuck em.