Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse
Jhex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So Google half baked a product, pushed it to the public whether they wanted it or not, and now it’s giving up on it replacing it with another half baked product nobody asked for…
Seems par for the course for Google
Billy2600@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In all fairness, in the early days of Google Assistant it really was useful. It actually worked. Somehow in the last 5 years it plummeted. As in it stunningly and noticeably kept getting worse year after year.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I have been saying for years my phone was so much smarter in 2015. I don’t know what happened. I could rename it talk to it and it was responsive and did what was asked. Crazy.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Enshittification, LLM’s
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Nah that’s a recent thing. Google assistant has been going downhill for ages long before this recent obsession with LLMs
st3ph3n@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Amazon Alexa has followed the same trajectory.
T156@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As has Siri.
It used to have all kinds of plugins, like Wolfram|Alpha, that let you do fun and silly things with it.
It’s simply gone downhill ever since.
The new Apple intelligence siri is arguably even worse. I tried asking it what the date would be next Tuesday, all I got back was “I don’t understand”.
Unintelligent Siri managed to crack that one without fault.
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I have a Google smart speaker that I got as a freebie. I used to use it (>3 years ago) for timers, alarms, etc. and had few problems, I just stopped when I moved and didn’t set it up. I put them back up a few months ago and it sure seems worse to me. Always triggering on random conversations, or to dialog on TV. Anyway they are permanent residents of the closet now. They suck.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
I still miss Google Now
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Mine used to be fantastic for recipes. It was nice having a small screen in the kitchen dedicated to recipes and background music. You could ask it for a recipe, it would automatically search for one, trim the mandatory “story of my family eating this meal so I can copyright it as a creative work” intro, and compile the recipe in easy-to-follow steps. But now I ask it for a recipe, and it just goes “I didn’t understand, but here are the search results.” Which just opens a web browser, meaning all the biggest reasons to use it (not digging through search results, skipping the intro, compiling everything into a step-by-step list that you can follow along with, etc) are all gone.