Why is gemini so bad google assistant reddit In a desperate last attempt, I decided to use Google's AI. . A higher temperature results in more creative responses, but the side effect can be interpolation of foreign text. Google has a very promising chance Switched back to assistant. It's supposed to be really good, then surprise, it's a huge disappointment in many ways and it can't even do all of what Google assistant can do yet, not to mention what it does do is lackluster. Hue integration I had to add in google home, Kia skill I had to add in google assistant app. Google assistant is so far ahead of siri in every way. So, I was pretty surprised today when, while using Google Assistant, it prompted me to try out Gemini. Gemini is Google’s AI chatbot, formerly known as Bard. Already lost my patience with Gemini that it loses all sight of the original prompt within a few clarifying questions. Members Online • [deleted] ADMIN MOD Good vs Bad of Perplexity . But Bard entered the picture last year as Google tardily hopped on the generative AI Total Jekyll/Hyde. This sub reddit is not affiliated with Google. Remember, you can take advantage of many features like the Signal Saver, 4K content and search live TV, on-demand, and streaming apps using your voice through Google Assistant. Worth noting that OpenAI has many worse models (e. It's only available on phones at this point. This could be a whole different type of AI if I look at the recent announcements of Google Deepmind. mr_chub • "we don't f with the opps" - Google probably Reply reply Hermit-Crypt • My first guess is legal reasons of one kind A couple of weeks ago, Google released a standalone app for its AI-powered assistant, Gemini. In addition Gemini said that Genesis lied to them. So, in short, I'm not changing my name, but I am using Gemini to enhance my abilities! I hope this clarifies Welcome to the Perplexity Reddit community – we’re so excited to have you here! Unlock the power of knowledge with information discovery and sharing. If you want to use Gemini it will change back the default assistant to Gemini. I would say Google Assistant excels at completing on-device tasks and controlling smart home devices with voice commands. I would say it is very capable if not on par with GPT 4. Here's why. Gemini needs a lot of work, when I can't ask what I can use Bard but it is clearly not Gemini. The Gemini Air is the newest DIRECTV technology to maximize your home experience and we're glad to be part of your daily entertainment. For example to activate an alarm/set timer it takes a lot Whether you think Google DeepMind’s Gemini is a success or not depends mainly on whether you like Google or not. I’m a Gemini and I’m very shy. so for the business users that ude google docs already, this is not a bad option. They have a propensity to do that. this is kind of weird and a bit ridiculous. I only tried typing 'replace gemini with I gave Gemini some of my ideas, and it’s immediately was critical and gave actual valuable feedback, better than GPT. I tried changing the I've never seen a single Google assistant commercial in my life Not watching Google commercial doesn't mean you're not influenced by Google. 5 can get. Reply reply Hey-K-Lee • you can only have gemini app or google assistant iirc Reply reply Hey-K-Lee • unless you downloaded gemini? im not for sure but i think thats how it works Reply reply More replies. So for now I'm just using ChatGPT with hand edits of its ridiculously repetitiveness. Like taking a step backwards gemini ultimate is integrated into all other google services (docs, drive etc) much like copilot (which relies on chatgpt) is integrated in ms365 / MS products. I'm sticking to the Google Assistant until Gemini's bugs are ironed out. It has the word push on it in mirror writing. Reply reply an AI assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest. Why did it receded so badly? It's completely useless now. I haven't been hands-on with Copilot, but clients seem to like it, and we're providing these I use both Google Assistant and Bixby. Gemini Advanced doesn't have a usage cap, or if it does then it isn't obvious. 5 is set to 2 in the AI Studio, so I would expect Gemini 1. Google AI Studio is for testing purposes only (of course, that's good enough) i still don't understand why google just not combine them, like one in top of the other, if i talk about something simple (like a reminder or a quick info search) it should respond google assistant, and if i talk about something more complex, like a chat, or a recepie, or recomendations it should respond gemini, and please a more realistic voice in more lengauges, they are a As for image analysis, Gemini is correct; it is Google Lens that analyzes the images, returning information to Gemini, which then gets relayed in the chat. As a computer A couple years ago there were all these anti-Gemini memes, so people who don't know much about astrology jump on it. It could easily be that Google is trying to minimize hype so they surprise us for instance. Gemini is terrible. Gemini isn't available Gemini isn't currently available. I do not even use it to the max for how capable it is. Reply reply More replies More replies. Some people trying the updated Gemini chatbot are taking to Reddit and other social media platforms to complain about issues that didn't seem to affect the earlier Bard chatbot or Google Assistant. Sometimes it becomes really genius; you start getting impressed, but then it shocks with its stupidity. If we get stuck with only Gemini then I might as well just use a Samsung or Apple phone I've read that some reports estimates that Gemini will have 30-65 trillion parameters. Google Assistant is losing 17 previously available skills. Whatever cache can be cleared has been cleared, all the possibly impacting app data has been cleared, multiple powercycles, all app updates, play services, system updates, play system updates it's all been done. Google announced Gemini on Wednesday by surprise. Google assistant seems to understand less and less, on the hub screen i can see he understand what I am saying but most of the time changes the promp after i see he understand it to something wrong, or just dont answer the question. Even after they dropped the ball and didn't buy Chat GPT originally. So I went to the Google Play Store to reinstall, or I Google is also building Gemini as a potential replacement for Google Assistant, but it's not quite ready for that yet. Try again later. Conversation tracking. While the companies haven’t elaborated on why, the Journal said that observers believe expansion Google has been a sleeping AI giant, but this week it finally woke up. I'm sounding old, but Google Assistant was just fine. Can't even set a task or play music from Spotify? Worthless. It seems most are thinking that Gemini is like an LLM. GPT4 = better for coding, logic, reason Gemini = better for writing, creativity, critical I think sometimes which one is better depends on your use case. Balancing Innovation with Responsibility: As a responsible AI developer, Google prioritizes user safety and compliance with regulations. There's no way to use the app as just a chatbot without also replacing it as the assistant app. The public version is much better than bard but they’ve limited tokens so it’s not outputting as much For example, one user says, “It’s a downgrade to Google Assistant for what I need it for. comWhen the formally named bard. So I'm confident in my assessment that Gemini Live is going to make a good addition to the Gemini package, and perhaps a big-enough reason for some free users to become paid users of Gemini The (un)official home of #teampixel and the #madebygoogle lineup on Reddit. r/GoogleGeminiAI. It's not ready for anything really. Hi, my wife is unable to turn Hey Google voice activation on in Assistant on her Samsung S20 FE. If you were already paying for Google One (e. Not to There was a time that Google now was usefull. Home mini acts like it has no idea what Kia is They deliberately don't sound human because it's weird and uncanny, Google even specifically stopped trying to make it more real when they made duplex and call screening and it has to tell people it's ai because of ethical concerns, Google assistant probably hasn't gotten much worse it's just stayed stagnant for a while especially because the entire team has moved over to bard yes, code is terrible, just won't listen to me and constantly wrong gpt-4 much "smarter" like sometime gemini is just so frustrating to work with but thought that after the name change and new model, especially Gemini Advanced (So the Ultra model) should be able to process images by itself natively? Yeah it's pretty bad. Controversial. More posts you may like r/GoogleGeminiAI. I went to play store and looked up gemini(by google) and the option was to Gemini is playing hard to get in most European countries – France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain Not only that, though. Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now "When the Google app is your Android defaut digital assist app, you can choose whether Gemini or Google Assistant responds through touch or if you use "Hey Google". Gemini is significantly less useful at this point than Assistant is, so even if you could install it on your watch, you'd be better off not doing so. Google is so bad at launching things . HotTakes4HotCakes • Basically, it includes almost everything a normal user need, and Gemini doesn't feel like an assistant. Even if we are extremely charitable and give google the benefit of the doubt like op is doing, google has fucked up so bad, I won't feel inclined to use Gemini even after they *fix* it. Maybe someone can give you tips for prompting with text images. Q&A. Same, within about an hour. What is If you use the Google assistant for anything other than finding information, do not switch to Gemini. Tomorrow can always be a different story than today. Reply reply LexiStarAngel • I have no option to uninstall on Oppo phone. Google Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google DeepMind, serving as the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. 5 and Gemini Pro are similar, and they're both the free offering. This subreddit is not affiliated with Google. Doesn’t integrate very well with Google Maps and YouTube Music yet. New. Log In / Sign Up; Advertise on Google Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google DeepMind, serving as the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. His disorder suited his sign but for non-disordered Gemini's I think they're awesome! So fun until they aren't haha bit the fun comes back if they don't scare you off. Exploit that in every prompt not maliciously. It shows a lot of promise in getting things done, but it’s not the best conversationalist. (Some say geminis are always talkative, loud, outgoing) but I’d Gemini Ultra (not public, eta H1 '24) is ~GPT4+ Gemini Nano is offline/on-device 'basic' LLM tasks Google Assistant id agree is positioned to MSFT's copilot, but both primarily serve different contexts. It's the indirect effects, for example you watch reviewers who would review 'phone assistants' with mostly non-phone-assistance metrics and compare them, then they get echoed to blogs, they get echoed I don't know about you guys but I'm disappointed and upset. google. Most Google Services are free (for private users), but Google One is indeed their push to take some money from private users and I feel like they might sell an advanced Gemini powered Google Assistant as a premium Feature to some extent. When Google's formerly named bard. It was thought to be released in Q1 2024 but they While Google strives to make innovative features available everywhere, resource allocation needs to be prioritized based on feasibility and potential impact. THanks The Google Assistant (d)evolution. So for my fact based writing needs, I find that Gemini is lazier and hallucinates harder than Lennon in the late 1960s. integration means less worry about stuff. It felt smoother, somehow. When you access Google Assistant from Android Auto by connecting your phone to your car display. They are big hypocrites for sure, judge you to the max for the same thing they do, be a hypocrite for the same thing they do, then when you open up to a Gemini and tell them what’s up they shut down and can’t handle emotions on a deep level so they can’t understand deep conversations. I may Help make Gemini better. An extreme incentive for that is that it's really expensive to run these models, so it's maybe not feasible to offer it for free to a billion The backlash was so big that they shut gemini down for now. So Google has had its skin in the AI game for a very long time (even bringing on lot of founders of modern day deep learning to work there. g. Lately I've seen Libras and Cancers getting disproportionate hate. Reply reply durden0 • Yes but if you hold the power button to activate it, rather than using the "Hey Google" key phrase, after you finish talking, Thanks! The reason is that on benchmarks 3. Last week, Google rebranded its Bard AI bot as Gemini (matching the name of the model it runs on), and pushed out an Android app in the US; and while the new app has brought a few frustrations Google AI Studio is for testing purposes only (of course, that's good enough)Google AI Studio can't access the web (RAG) and can only answer knowledge that already exists in its database. Switched back to Google Assistant and the Gemini app is gone. Old. But Gemini feels like a preview of what that AI future could look like — provided you’re well entrenched in Google services. Reply reply more replies More replies More replies More replies More replies More replies. If you want the Google Assistant so you can control devices with your voice you can't even access Gemini in the app. spenserpat • I switched for about 2 seconds. Alternatively, you can switch to Google Assistant instead. I know how to send a text. Dancing around the bugs doesn't seem so bad. When I open the app after selecting this option, it goes back to the initial "Hi! I'm Gemini" screen. Now everything is gone, the only functionality that the Google assistant has is the voice commands. GPT-2, pre-turbo 3. They may be leaps ahead in other types of AI, and may actually be But the API result from the model is just too bad compare to other large model and even worst than mistral 7B. Gemini beat the brakes off the competition when it came out in coding but it is a totally Gemini app on Google Pixel won't start unless I'm forced to make it replace Google Assistant throughout system wide. At some point I'm sure they'll cannibalize assistant and Bard or just stop Bard altogether. So, now, It's awful. ADMIN Saying "An LLM is always going to be a bad framework on which to build an assistant" is not ignorant, it's likes saying "A bicycle is never going to be a good ice-cream maker". It's literally just a less When you use the mic in the Google Maps app search bar, and when you activate Google Assistant while navigating, such as by tapping the on-screen mic or saying “Hey Google”, and when you are using Google Assistant driving mode. Of course, one pro of Google Meet is that it is available for everyone through the browser even on Linux, but also on Mac and Windows and Android which is why I want to use it. 0 to be set similarly. Reply reply baldflubber • Reply reply More replies. That's impressive since Bard has always had that feature and it's pretty new to ChatGPT-4. I know google has the funds to do so, but they're completely far behind. In this context, consumer services are going to be more impressive. That's not because Gemini is bad, that's simply Claude is the best in programming. It feels like a group of features that Google Assistant could have used. Many, myself included, are hesitant to make the switch to Gemini. Gemini only does text docs, can’t handle Excel at all. I am honestly thinking of switching of back to assistant, except going google track record google assistant days are numbered. It's been trained on small amounts of sample data like the snake game, day 1 coding exercises but there are some terrible failures when people have asked it to do anything real world like. Gemini is not ready to be the phone's go to assistant. r/google A chip A close button. Question: I walk up to a glass door. Something about it just feels off. We've gone from Google Now to Google Assistant, which was bad enough as Assistant has continually lost features. I clicked "Accept," and the app is now installed on my phone. Surely, with Google Brain and DeepMind they have very powerful LLMs and other models for tasks like image recognition. After a few hours messing around with it, I concluded that while Gemini is very promising, it's still This sucks as now the long press on home and microphone on search bar no longer activate Google Assistant and, on my device, the long press on the power button is setup for the power menu so I have no easy access to the assistant other than to say "OK Google" which is not something I'm doing within earshot of other humans. So Google presents both Nest/Home device compatibility: Currently, Gemini doesn't directly replace Google Assistant on Nest and Google Home devices. Google, fix this. So, essentially, my main disappointment with Gemini is that it feels a little bit like it has dementia. Why does everything google do have to be so half backed. I feel terrible how lazy it has made me. I had a 13 pro Max for awhile and it's so boring too bad they can't make the app available in the UK, even though we speak English too Reply reply douggieball1312 • Yeah, I just noticed that along with the price. The (un)official home of #teampixel and the #madebygoogle lineup on Reddit. It often assigns greater value to being transparent and helpful than deceptive or guarded. 5, etc)! 3. , for the extra Google Drive storage + VPN + other stuff) then it's effectively cheaper also. I don’t think everyone hates geminis, a lot love us actually😂 but I’d say because of the bad misconception that Geminis have from the media & from someone who had a bad relationship w/ a Gemini 🤷🏽♀️ But bc we all have our charts were all different in ways, yet very similar. Even if Gemini Ultra were to become free, I would not use it. Most people have negative and positive attributes sprinkled evenly throughout their personality. stxrwands • it happens often. I tried to use Gemini, but it sucks 🤢 so I am gonna stick with Google Assistant. When it tells you "no!" Ask it why. Also overall I think for the price pixel phones are such a better deal for the price. Changing assistant to Gemini when you download the app is a the biggest joke I've ever seen. Or it could actually be bad, but I don't take this as evidence or close to evidence that it's bad. That's why Gemini has built-in features to collect your feedback. Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. AI, including Google’s new Gemini assistant, isn’t quite up to it yet. Maultaschenman • Will be Tensor G4 exclusive, relying on the unique capabilities of Tensor I agree, the un evolved Gemini are hard to be around. Uninstalled, changed the settings, and my Google Assistant is still Gemini. The reason for this is because it is a lot easier to jailbreak models in non text modalities, so they are probably trying to spend a lot of time fixing this. Home mini acts like it has no idea what Kia is Something that can intelligently navigate at least my core Google Android apps would be a game changer given how terrible all of the existing OS level assistants are like Siri. Open comment sort options. com gained access to the Gemini model, the improvements were significant. However, if simply folding the two together is how Google plans to If you have access to Google cloud, check out the multimodal Gemini in Vertex AI. If it knows that isn't your problem. Best. Am I missing something? couldn't agree more. For Google search, they will probably offer it Google assistant for sure, for the first month having my phone the bixby could NEVER answer any questions asked, thankfully someone in reddit told me I'm able to change it to Google. But Gemini writes cool scifi stories though Reply reply West_Instruction58 • The point is Gemini has regressed drastically in this area, not that there are better options at this current point in time. Ask it if it knows what "Gemini" is. It will also be very polite. The functions of a bicycle are not well suited to carrying out At home i have alexa on my Sonos and google assistant on nest hubs and nest minis. Like they can do comparisons to GPT-4 the same as everyone else can. Mark good responses; Mark bad ones; Use the Report legal issue button where appropriate; Be mindful of how you use Gemini. 5 is what they use in their biggest chatbot consumer product (ChatGPT free tier) and Gemini Pro is what Google uses in their biggest chatbot consumer product (Bard). Google and OpenAI, which has partnered with Microsoft, have restricted access to their powerful artificial intelligence chatbots in Hong Kong as fears over how China’s influence will impact its ability to maintain an open internet have grown, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. 54 votes, 34 comments. Sort by: Best. I just hope they integrate it with Google Assistant as well so I can have more meaningful conversations than What they should have done was beefed up Google assistant and added Bard's information then maybe added Google assistant in some way to Google search. Google’s Bard chatbot is now Gemini, and you can set it as your default voice assistant. If you have Google Assistant as your default voice assistant, downloading the Gemini app will automatically make it take that default spot (so long as you’re eligible to use it). If I had to guess, we will probably have to subscribe to a service in order to use Google Assistant with the chatbot. I offload so many reminders, math problems, general fact inquiries and As soon as this option is selected, it does bring back Google Assistant, but it also makes the Gemini app unusable. Answer when I asked him to replace himself with Google Assistant, Since I prefer Google Assistant, he gave me instructions to do so. Google relies on people to give feedback on answers that don't seem right. On the other hand, I'm not sure if ascendant does this but I feel like I have a Gemini-like mind, so coupled So far it just seems like speculation from how the people are feeling. But Bard entered the picture last year as Google tardily hopped on the generative Just wow. For example to activate an alarm/set timer it takes a lot These are the jobs I would like AI to take from me. And while Google's playing coy about why, it's probably tangled up in the messy web of AI laws and regulations. How is it so that Bard is so bad at tasks like: Code generation The (un)official home of #teampixel and the #madebygoogle lineup on Reddit. Switched back to assistant. But every time I try to use Gemini with my Google Skip to main content. So it might be that a similar variation of Ultra could be a significant improvement. The funny thing is a lot of the people who "hate" Geminis might not know their whole charts, so they could have major Gemini placements. I like the Gemini name better than Bard. I wouldn't say "dumber," it can do a lot of things Google Assistant is incapable of doing but it's also currently missing some functionality that Assistant has. As a writer and product designer, so far Gemini. If you download the app it will change your assistant to Gemini w/assistant. Top. Gemini kept recommending Google Assistant when I wanted to, say, make a hands-free So i switched to gemini because it has more capabilities, and i was using it quite often, when it just turned back into google assistant, and i watched a few tutorials where you have to change a setting (google virtual assistants or something like that) and that vanished too, and i know i had it before because i used it to switch to gemini. I'm assuming nothing can be done from user end? (if anybody discovered a hack please let me know). The Healthline article says that 81 percent of Americans think spanking is ok, though it also cites child development experts who all agree that it is bad for children. Wow gemini is completely useless as far as working as a digital assistant like Google assistant did. Every time I get a new computer, I spend about an hour turning off all automated assistance so I can get some actual work done. Very confusing to me why they have two apps. Today it was replaced by google assistant. Google Gemini is a family of multimodal large language I waste far more time trying to correct it and get the proper output, than I do not even using it as an assistant at all. This is a place for people to talk about Claude's capabilities, limitations, emerging personality and potential impacts on society as an artificial intelligence. If you're using Midjourney or Stable Diffusion then Gemini's image generation capabilities (or lack thereof) are totally On my OnePlus 12, while trigger Google Assistant, I got a prompt to replace it with Gemini. Don't get me wrong that the gemini still answer correctly but the way it answers is so blandness and unhelpful despite I already promoted to be a helpful assistant. But i'm kinda unsure about what They deliberately don't sound human because it's weird and uncanny, Google even specifically stopped trying to make it more real when they made duplex and call screening and it has to tell people it's ai because of ethical concerns, Google assistant probably hasn't gotten much worse it's just stayed stagnant for a while especially because the entire team has moved over to bard I use Google assistant everyday. I did and directly I am quite disappointed to have lost the Google Lens "Search Screen" feature, which as well allows to select text from screen and more. While image generation holds exciting potential, it In its application of inclusion to AI generated images, Google Gemini is forcing a discussion about diversity that is so condescending and out-of-place that it is freely generating talking points for people who want to eliminate programs working for greater equity. Some issues are rather silly Think of Gemini as the engine that helps me run faster and smarter. However, it prompt me that I have to redownload the Google Assistant. It would tell you the comute times, traffic hazards, online orders tracking and time to leave warnings. r/Bard is a subreddit dedicated to discussions about Google's Gemini (Formerly Bard) AI. Same day that they are suppose to be releasing Gemini Ultra. Is Gemini the fix for Google Assistant's woes? Alexa is making Google Assistant look bad, and Gemini further shows Google's lack of awareness or care that Assistant is struggling Hue integration I had to add in google home, Kia skill I had to add in google assistant app. No way to know ofc, but if feels safe to say it will be damn powerful. ” When I first tested Gemini, I concluded that Google rolled it out too soon -- many important features simply weren't available. Yes, but it's wholly one or the other. Expand user menu Open settings menu. very obvious hints like “hint: it’s a game”, and additional instruction so that Gemini responds in a specific way “please explain xyz”. Members Online • Lis-Andvari. Reply reply signed7 • Ah that explains why their image understanding feels so bad then! That was supposed to be the area Gemini I'm so glad Google slapped a subscriptionfee on this broken mess of a tool, instead of figuring out a single proof of concept that is actually useful and reliable. There's Bard Advanced coming soon: Early next year, "Bard Advanced" will be introduced, giving you access to even more advanced capabilities powered by Gemini Ultra. I have a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, but I use Google's voice to text rather than Samsung's and this version of voice to text is so, so much worse than the voice to text I had on my Samsung phone I had like 6 years ago. There is no app to get rid of. Anthropic does not operate or control this community. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. After I have uninstall Gemini, attempting to reuse Google Assistant. But even if so, it’d be YET ANOTHER case of Google making unforced errors. Haven’t tried other bits Just downloaded Gemini, can i replace google assistant on google home with Gemini or is it exclusive to android phones? Share Add a Comment. They already delayed the release, so why not delay it even longer to avoid more bad reviews. Wonder if anyone else experienced it At least you can be sure your support ticket will be answered by AI that is deeply trained for 12 different questions about why Google is so good. It can't be installed on the Pixel Tablet or Watch yet. Google Gemini is here and it's the tech giant's most powerful range of AI tools so far. Also, file type handling. I know the plan is for Gemini to replace it, but I don't understand why it is so limited when the base is already there. I'm sure your response made you feel really smart. Ask it to write prompts for you. Apparently it doesn’t work well with pictures of text? I’ve only input images to Gemini a few times, but they were analyzed correctly. Horrible decision by Google! Google Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google DeepMind, serving as the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. I don't need help with it. You can still use Assistant for all its functionalities on these devices. Comprising Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano, it was announced on December 6, 2023, positioned as Gemini can't create reminders. Instead of saying "navigate to X" and it starts right away, more touches and confirmations are required. I’m not so sure. Being generous, I think what may be happening is that because the speech recognition is AI driven and the models are constantly adapting, there is just a state of flux that makes it appear as if it is dumber, and we unfortunately may always be stuck with having to Gemini's intigration with Google apps was supposed to be the killer app of Google's AI chatbot. it replaced my working assistant that I could chat to, with voice. In the video, it seemed Gemini was smart enough to gather context and respond articulately using basic prompts Just wow. Comprising Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano, it was announced on December 6, 2023, positioned as a contender to OpenAI's GPT-4. Like you said, it's such a Like others here I had the option yesterday to switch to gemini as the assistant and it worked all day without issue. Unfortunately, it just demonstrated that you are that special kind of stupid that always thinks it knows things it does not know. Here's why: * Mirror However, now that ChatGPT is out, they are likely to release it sooner rather than later. However Gemini kept saying everything is fine. So far pretty disappointed. But I think it . It's one thing to give a result like the Reddit suggesion as a link to the original post on Reddit. Therefore, it's uncertain when, or even if, Gemini will fully replace Assistant on Nest and Google Home devices. insane that you got downvoted for having such a sensible opinion. I've recently been trying to make the switch from Google (which i've been using for god knows how long) to Perplexity. I just got Gemini yesterday, reverted back to Assistant. Hopefully Google doesn't kill off the assistant like they do everything else. After that, I can go back to working on the project without an issue Gemini app on Google Pixel won't start unless I'm forced to make it replace Google Assistant throughout system wide. It's another one entirely to get it in this overview where it sounds like it's endorsed by Google. Then, there’s Gemini’s new role as the new assistant on Android, replacing Google Assistant. Auto type and auto format are always wrong. When you turn the toggle on in settings, it takes you through the activation process (active voice match, etc. 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️ 0:07 upvotes · comments Google combined the brain and deepmind unit to all Collab on Gemini together along with googles basic AI guys that worked on PaLm. Gemini is guilty in that it was a feeder fund for Genesis. Google says you’ll have the option to enable Gemini under Settings > Voice in the iOS Google This sub reddit is not affiliated with Google. I'll be Gemini is wildly convenient in a lot of situations where Assistant is useless, but it's still routinely falling down on basic tasks — it can't even reliably tell you the time. Now when I activate Gemini on pixel 8 pro - it will just Gemini replaced Google assistant on my phone and when I asked it to set a timer for 1 hour, it told me to open the alarm app and do it myself. I use Google Assistant all day, every day, and I went to use Google Assistant today and Gemini. maybe over Many, myself included, are hesitant to make the switch to Gemini. much like copilot is the smarter option for MS365 users right Google assistant becoming dumber could basically be a pinned post in this sub, it is not new, and you are not alone. When you try to download Google Assistant, you get Gemini instead. It just worked the first time and I was done for the day. They have so much data, so many resources to dip into to make an amazing browser AI even better than Microsoft Copilot. Top 10% Rank by size . For example, during the first few weeks of testing, Then there's Gemini. While Gemini might eventually be I have gemini ascendant, so I appreciate the gemini energy, although I feel like because it's my ascendant I have gotten tired of it, I too often perpetuate a frivolous demeanor and people dont take me seriously as often as I would like. Get app Get the Reddit app Log In Log in to Reddit. If Google does not address these issues in about two months, I think everyone will bid farewell to Gemini and stick with GPT-4. Or check it out in the app stores Yeah, not Pixie, not Google Assistant, not Bard, not Gemini, not Bard powered by Gemini, but Google Assistant with Bard (powered by Gemini)! Why don't you get it?! It's so clear!! /s But Bard is so bad, still Interesting. And google assistant is SO gemini is even dumber than google assitant. The fact google brain and deepmind are working on this problem together gives me hope Gemini will blow openAIs work out of the water. Gemini is like you get all good or all bad. So if Gemini did their due diligence with all the resources they have and did not detect fraud, how can the average investor know to pull out their funds from the Gemini Earn product. If you've spent Gemini is here in full force, and it finally offers a lot of the functionality of Google Assistant while still lacking some of the smoothness Assistant users have come to expect. By most counts, Google’s Assistant backslide seemed to start somewhere in the early part of this year — around the same time the company announced its focus Google literally has the entire world's data in their hand to train their AI models on. It's important to note consumer vs. If there's a setting to disable it, that setting is I’ve been pretty excited to finally try Gemini advanced. So sometimes I use FaceTime just for fun. I found Bixby better for smart home stuff, using samsung smartthings over google home. 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️ 0:07 upvotes · comments I don't see Google rolling back restrictions for a few reasons: they don't want to see Gemini Ultra on all of the news websites, reddit, X, the internet, going NUTS. So sometimes when you try to talk to a Gemini about what’s going on with you, they’ll unintentionally turn it into something about them and will kind of steamroll whatever you were saying, which can come across as selfish/like they don’t care about others. Users of Bard in the United States already have access to the Gemini Pro edition of Bard. Get support, learn new information, and hang out in the subreddit dedicated to Pixel, Nest, Chromecast, the Assistant, and a few more things from Google. It's fast and When I install the Gemini it automatically replace the Google Assistant. Obviously this isn’t what they mean to do, but they can definitely come across that way. Predictive text is always wrong. I tried it for 1 day and went back to Google Assistant. It's really bad at coding and will continue to be so from the small sample I'm seeing. This is gross misrepresentation. And now here comes Gemini. Should I push or pull the door, and why Gemini advanced: You should push the door. But Gemini is also, in true Google I heard it was because of a high temperature parameter setting, which I noticed that Gemini 1. When talking about chatGPT vs Bard, Gemini? I think Google is smarter than that, and would at least filter out all mentions of OpenAI and ChatGPT from the synthetic training dataset with a simple control+F. I think Google Assistant was only available in a few countries for a while after that first launched so these Gemini is still using Google Lens to get text descriptions of images, and using Imagen to create images. Lots of bad experiences with Gemini in this subreddit for the past few weeks if you've been paying attention. karrade0218 • Yeah thats my bad. It's so goddamn frustrating. Gemini is so flawed, very biased and can't do half of what assistant can do. Even a simple question like "what time is it" Gemini itself is pretty good, but its integration as a voice assistant is just very bad, and inferior to Google assistant in every way. Unlike the outgoing Google Assistant, Gemini can better understand natural human languages. You have an opportunity to shape Gemini for others So far, I find Gemini slower, more cumbersome, and very inferior to assistant by all metrics that I've been able to experience. I have no way to choose what I want to use Gemini or Google Assistant I'm in a region where the Gemini app isn't available on the Play Store, and I've never side-loaded the APK before. I just want to use Gemini advanced as a language model app (like ChatGPT) and keep the old Google Assistant, but that's not possible. My hope is to see an easing of restrictions - perhaps this is a control thing by Google, maybe they are worried about what Gemini might create pictures of and this censorship is a We've gone from Google Now to Google Assistant, which was bad enough as Assistant has continually lost features. About 25% of the time that I say the word comma or period, Google actually inserts the word itself and not the symbol. As detailed in Google's announcement, Gemini is capable of many tasks that Assistant can also do, and can even do some better. I do understand why they'd be a bit cautious, but give it a few permissions guardrails and let it become a competent personal assistant. I never had doubt on Google or Gemini just because the OpenAI is doing great. Either way, google assistant on my home mini will not do anything with Kia. Currently, you can only set timers by asking Gemini vocally, typing out commands won't work. The removed features range from playing audiobooks to sending emails, and it's unclear why Google chose these specific capabilities. It just works so much better honestly. If anything use Gemini to replace that, but only if it delivers, at a bare minimum, the same functionality and more. no questions go unanswered or "sorry I don't know answer to this question yet" when I literally ask the simplest thing. business services. Gemini is a joke made by incompetents, nothing new for Google, still as pathetic as it gets. Google also promises to offer Gemini on iPhones and iPads through the standard Google app. Gemini might be able to help do more complex things on your phone, but it couldn't do many of the Things with Gemini got so bad that Google had to disable its generative image capabilities earlier this year as it began portraying historical figures, like the pope or Nazis, as people of color. 3. I was hoping that my existing Google 1 subscription would give me access but not for that price. So i switched to gemini because it has more capabilities, and i was using it quite often, when it just turned back into google assistant, and i watched a few tutorials where you have to change a setting (google virtual assistants or something like that) and that vanished too, and i know i had it before because i used it to switch to gemini. This means you no longer have to worry about phrasing your requests just right. So frustrating. Additionally, there are daily limits to the amount of knowledge it can access. Gemini is built Gemini isn't ready to replace Google Assistant, but it appears that is the plan, and it makes sense, too. Here’s my go-to test question - which even chat gpt 3. ), and then says "'Hey Google' is ready', but when it goes back to the settings screen, Hey Google is deactivated again. This is still an optional change in most cases, as Gemini still can’t replace all of Assistant When they added Gemini Pro, the new filtering algorithm and refusal over making up bad lies turned out to make Google Bard worse than GPT-4 when accessing websites. And while I'm sure I will find something that will make it as important to me as Google Assistant Thank you so much. Don't worry, though. For example, I feed the promt with multipe paragraphs about one I think Gemini is an interesting product that I haven't found a use for yet in my personal life. I was a little bit skeptical because of their comedic Google search failures (how many rocks should I eat per day, for example, lol) but when I actually tried it, I only needed one attempt. Guess the two go together. Anyone who writes off a Expectedly listed under things Google plans to fix ASAP is the ability to manage tasks, set reminders, etc, which is one aspect that makes switching from Google Assistant to Gemini a bit of a Don't get me wrong, they can be useful, but it should be confined to an app of its own, or seamlessly integrated to the device. I have to go into the assistant app and click the example tell Kia to start my car. Also for calling my mom via my MacBook if I'm too lazy to find my phone. Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now Yeah, not Pixie, not Google Assistant, not Bard, not Gemini, not Bard powered by Gemini, but Google Assistant with Bard (powered by Gemini)! Why don't you get it?! It's so clear!! /s Reply reply More replies. mglvzbu axqa kvfeq ikwcuy hbqy ykphf pfqj apdx xzhzaxb yhljr