As always, Google forgets that English is not exclusively for the USA.
The new Gemini-powered Assistant is available in English starting today in the U.S. It’ll come to more locations — and Japanese and Korean — starting next week.
Google Assistant is now powered by Gemini -- sort of
Submitted 8 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/google-assistant-is-now-powered-by-gemini-sort-of/
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cloudless@feddit.uk 8 months ago
SharkAttak@kbin.social 8 months ago
Now you're gonna tell me that English was born in some kind of Eng-land? Come on!
shiftymccool@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They’re probably geo-locking it, too, so it will really be just English in just the US
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 8 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’ll be mobile-only; Google Assistant devices like Nest and Home speakers and displays won’t see changes just yet.
The experience comes in the form of an overlay that acts as a frontend for the Gemini models and provides contextual recommendations and suggestions, Sissie Hsiao, Google Assistant VP, told TechCrunch in a press briefing.
Indeed, the Gemini-powered Assistant — which, depending on the device, can be summoned with a corner swipe, power button tap or “Hey Google” hotword — can accept images as well as text and voice commands.
Google gives a few example prompts in the onboarding flow, like “Help me craft a text response to my friend who is stressed at work,” “Give me some ideas to surprise my concert-loving friend on their birthday” and “Help me incorporate more plant-based options in my diet.” As on the web, Gemini in Assistant can also create images, although it’s not clear which model’s doing the generating; Bard previously tapped Imagen 2 for this purpose.
It and the capabilities it brings, like better reasoning, coding and instruction-following skills, are gated behind a new product, Gemini Advanced, that’s part of a new subscription, the Google One AI Premium Plan, priced at $20 per month.
But I wonder whether that’ll be enough to pacify Google Assistant users who perceive the AI Premium Plan as an effort to charge for model updates that were previously free.
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Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can I do this for my Google home device? It’s ability to answer questions has really been going downhill
9point6@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man the weirdest thing I’ve noticed with my Google home getting shitter is saying “stop” when a timer is going off—say stop, wait 4 seconds for it to acknowledge
Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
OMG it takes me 10 times of telling it to stop for it to actually stop the timer alarm
jBlight@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I thought that was just me! I feel like the overall quality of Google home has been going down. I have to tell Google to turn off my lights like 3 times before it works now a days
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve been degoogling and de-nesting for the last year, especially since the door sensors are going to stop working, just so they can try to sell ADT stuff.
I can no longer trust Google not to kill everything it touches.