Comment by lowmagnet

18 days ago

Here's me not using Gemini 1 because the only use case for me for old assistant is setting a timer. Because of reports that Gemini is randomly incapable of setting one.

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progbits  18 days ago

How does release of LLM API relate to assistant?

  • w0m  18 days ago

    Pixels replaced Assistent w/ Gemini a while back and it was horrendous; would answer questions but not perform the basic tasks you actually used Assistant for (setting timer, navigating, home control, etc).

    Seems like they're approaching parity (finally) months and months later (alarms/tv control work at least now), but losing basic oft-used functionality is a serious fumble.

    • VenturingVole  18 days ago

      I feel as though some of the rigour of systems engineering is missing from AI model development/integration. Not a negative per-se, as velocity is incredibly important: But it seems a lot of lessons have to be learned again.

      I sometimes forget - it is still very early days relatively speaking.

      As a user of Gemini 2.0, so far I have been very impressed for the most part.

    • progbits  18 days ago

      Thanks, didn't know, never really used these voice assistants.

      It's a weird choice, I suppose the endless handcrafted rules and tools don't scale across languages and usecases but then LLM are not good at reliability. And what's the point of using assistant that will not do the task reliably, if you have to double-check you are better of not using it...

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