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I have an android phone and switching google assistant to gemini made it worse for the fairly basic things I actually use google assistant for, like setting reminders, so I switched it back.

Are people really clamoring for AI in the voice assistant on their phone?

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> so I switched it back.

Google has helpfully decided that you don't actually want to do that:

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-assistant-gemini-...

later this year, the classic Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices

The Gemini based assistant has been getting better... It was weird to see the massive step backwards though.

Using a fully-fledged flagship model as a personal assistant actually works pretty well. You don't need a task app, just tell the AI to remember and remind you. Granted, now you have to inject prompts to work around context limitations, allow the AI to schedule wake ups for itself or allow it to send notifications, etc. But those are issues with straight forward solutions. The issue is that for now those models are incredibly expensive and resource intensive to run. And a quantized 3.25B model like Gemini Nano just can't perform the same.

Yup, had to stop using it, next step was to get rid of Gemini altogether. It's so weird to claim you give people an advanced AI when actually you are removing a whole bunch of features.

+1 OMG I was going die using that Gemini garbage! Was so glad they had a way to switch back!

My Nest can still only get “ok google turn on the light” the second time I say it. Good shit!

This is why I still haven't pulled the trigger on home automation stuff. Bad enough keeping my laptop functioning, don't want that experience extending to the rest of my life!

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