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I Fired Google
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#22Stopped after repeating the false claim that bmw charges a subscription for heated seats.
BMW actually piloted such a program, but the outcry was brutal.
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#23> Nobody asked for cars that require IT support and 3 sub-menus to lower the air conditioning. (Screens are cheaper to install than buttons and knobs.)
perhaps, but people did ask for cheaper cars.
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#24Never understood why anyone would use Google Home or Amazon Echo when we all have phones.
A DSLR camera is better than a phones camera, a voice assisting device seems replaceable however.
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#25The quality of Gemini varies so much throughout the day, the week and the month that it’s hard to rely on it for anything. It feels like Google is trying to throttle costs but has completely missed the mark.
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#26Stopped after repeating the false claim that bmw charges a subscription for heated seats.
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#27The only things these "smart" speakers are good for is timers, adding to lists (especially grocery lists in the kitchen), and playing music. And even then they often stutter...
Agree, but they are very good at playing music. They are still useful even if the don't do anything else, just like a microwave just needs to cook food.
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#28Sorry but this page and site have the most obnoxious number of ads on almost any page I've ever seen. After reading a couple of paragraphs I closed the window, no content is worth subjecting myself to that many ads and trying to navigate which is real content and which isn't.
Firefox + ublock origin and voilà, no more ads.
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#29I don't really use our Google Home devices, but my wife does. Ever since the "update" I've noticed now that Gemini likes to ask her 2-3 follow up questions after each query. The first might be something like, "Would you like to know more about ?" My wife would answer "No" and Gemini would respond like, "Is there anything else you would like to discuss on the subject of ?" It's gotten to the point where she will start…
I talk to chatbots while doing yardwork, often with both hands full. Yesterday I tried to get it to shut up mid conversation and just could not do it with voice only. I had to wait through several minutes of blathering, restarted by every random noise, before I could put the chainsaw down and turn it off.
I was amazed at my own level of anger at that. It was just a voice in my ears but I reacted to it viscerally like it was an assault. It didn't help that it was in the middle of a sequence of it telling one lie after another, like "yes, I can disconnect this conversation." Maybe what I had is a natural reaction to having a lying clueless asshole refuse to go away or shut up, which I haven't otherwise had to deal with lately.
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#30This was so spot on I felt like standing up and yelling, "Yes! Exactly!"
I have a similar experience. Having used Google home assistant since it came out for all the things that it's good for, and watched its quality fluctuate, I find I really have to be more careful nowadays when I ask it questions because it can go overboard more easily. Is there a term in AI research where it underappreciates the specificity that is being asked for? Perhaps the AI could be default prompted, "you are a…
They've spent a lot of money on this technology, and what users want is just not that high a priority.