Technology

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.

gee, i wonder why...

Gemini is fucking garbage, it's useless as an assistant and Google destroyed Assistant which could do genuinely helpful things like navigate hands free, set timers reliably and without Internet connections, set calendar reminders, etc.

Try to use voice commands to navigate now?

Gemini tells you to use the Maps app.

Fuck you Gemini, that's not helpful at all.

Get your shit together Google.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. AI can eat the entirety of my arse.

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?

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.

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.

Removed the app, moving to gOS. Its far too invasive and I am just sick of using google anything.

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.

To save you all some time, this is the poll.

i dont want to use AI at all, anywhere, lol. google/samsung tried to force bixby down our throats and now they're doing the same with Gemini. i dont want any part of it!!!!

Gemini is garbage, it's always wrong.

Does anyone else notice AI just being referred to as "intelligence" in the media a lot now? Seems very sudden and very sus.

. The biggest of them involves how Gemini could bear the load of mundane or mindless tasks you do on your phone or other Android devices.

Like....what?

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.

That's alright, they'll suck it up eventually. Along with 'age control' de-anonymization.

Signed, GrapheneOS user.

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.