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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    39 minutes ago

    I find Gemini has better communication and comprehension ability compared with assistant, but can do even less when it comes to controlling the phone. No reminders, no calendar events, no messages, no integration with anything. Just talking.

    I would have preferred assistant talk and understand better, instead of a completly gimped alternative that does that and nothing more.

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    7 hours ago

    If this is pushed through a silent update then I’ll use adb to remove it. I don’t need a useless ai assistant hogging precious memory.

    I feel bad for for the folks who have their phone gimped overnight and they won’t have a clue why no clue why. So many people with older phones are going to need to upgrade their phone because of this forced update. Talk about e-waste.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    I got the change and immediately put it back to Google assistant. I don’t want AI. I want to tell my phone when to set my alarm clock.

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    10 hours ago

    🤣 Gemini is the worst of all the ais. It can’t even do the most basic shit like set reminders.

    Google has fallen so hard. They are just pure ad garbage now.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 hours ago

    Didn’t read the article and I haven’t really used Android in a almost a decade, but aren’t most android devices on seriously old versions and sold with 2GB RAM or less. Or are shit Android devices less common nowadays?

    Last time I seriously considered an Android device was 8ish years ago and devices running Android 2 were still being sold new.

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      8 hours ago

      My old, crappy phone that retailed for $250 (got for much cheaper) had 4GB RAM (released 2019 or 2020), and my current one has 8GB RAM. The one before that had 2GB IIRC, and was released around 2017, and it was crappy for the time.

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      10 hours ago

      Modern barrel bottom Android phones in the past few years require an ARM64 system, and come with minimum 4GB / 64GB RAM and Storage. Good phones will have 8, 12, even 16 GB RAM and up to 1TB Storage.

  • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    I use Google Assistant a lot. I tried the Gemini Assistant on my phone and it was an exercise in frustration.

    Me: (after pausing the tv) “Resume TV”

    Google: (resumes playback on TV)

    Gemini: “TV not recognised. Please say the device name” or even worse… “A resume is essential when you’re looking for a job in television. Your resume should blah blah…”


    Me: (with phone locked) “set a timer for xxx”

    Google: “setting a timer for xxx, starting now”

    Gemini: “I’m unable to set timers, please unlock your phone, open xxx and (lengthy step by step instructions)”, or “setting a timer for yyy” (completely wrong time).

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      11 hours ago

      They activated Gemini at work to auto-complete stuff in emails. I work in IT, and I was not aware of that. I was typing the sentence “we will need some help” and was about to add “in the project blah blah” but Gemini came with its amazing auto-completion and added something like “in the street where they sell sausages”.

      AI was a mistake, and I didn’t use it since that day. Waste of time, waste of everything.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 hours ago

        Astute point, they’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater here and hurting the disabled community to push their inferior product that nobody really asked for.

        Just because I don’t use it doesn’t mean others who need it also don’t.

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          10 hours ago

          It happens, we forget the sheet diversity of experiences because we’re human. I try to have multiperspectivity, but even that is limited to one’s own experiences and imaginative abilities, on the best days.