Technology

Not sold is putting it very mildly. I found a fix for all of the bullshit though: you go into the default apps area and you choose none for assistant. Before I did that they had sideloaded fucking Gemini onto my phone via Android Auto and when I was trying to navigate somewhere I had to speak to some useless middle manager Gemini guy that didn't like cursing before he passed it off to the virtual woman to do the actual navigation. Google: bringing the patriarchy to your digital assistants.

The desperate forced adoption of "AI" seems more like rape than marketing.

I disabled Gemini. But unfortunately they tied a whole host of features I really liked about my phone to that fucking thing. And now they're all unusable. Google has effectively made themselves useless to me. There is now literally no point in having Android over any other OS that exists.

I can not for the life of me figure out a single problem or need I have in my life where the solution is "more technology".

I could not care less. I'm at zero Kelvin for technology. Nothing's moving, there's no interaction, I do not care.

i dont want to use AI at all, anywhere, lol. google/samsung tried to force bixby down our throats and now they're doing the same with Gemini. i dont want any part of it!!!!

Big woop. Over the last year or so, it moved from "can reliably set a timer" to having to yell at it, multiple times, crossing an unexpected amount of hurdles, to get it to maybe understand that you want to set a timer, and god forbids that you want it with a specific name and duration. Oh, and the icing on the cake : it worked perfectly when it was locally running on the phone, and started going downhill when they pulled the plug on that.

I wonder why people aren't sold on such wonderful tech.

Again, add this to the 'no shit' bag

With Gemini Intelligence, Google plans to take Gemini’s agentic capabilities to the next level, where it can also handle complex tasks, such as finding the most suitable guided tours that fit your specific requirements.

Why would anyone do that ?

Seems its just an answer still searching for a question.

. The biggest of them involves how Gemini could bear the load of mundane or mindless tasks you do on your phone or other Android devices.

Like....what?

The majority of people's issue with AI is that it's an unhelpful level of competence. It's obviously advanced enough that it isn't just a basic automation tool while at the same time being stupid enough that you would never trust its output. This puts it in an awkward cultural point where it's use is effectively nullified by its own incapabilities.

Essentially I spend about as much time fact checking it as it would if I just done the task myself.

I swear we were told when all this started the AI was going to bring about a cultural revolution give us Star Trek replicators and warp drive.

It's not Intelligent. I call it Artificial Incompetence.

Gemini is fucking garbage, it's useless as an assistant and Google destroyed Assistant which could do genuinely helpful things like navigate hands free, set timers reliably and without Internet connections, set calendar reminders, etc.

Try to use voice commands to navigate now?

Gemini tells you to use the Maps app.

Fuck you Gemini, that's not helpful at all.

Get your shit together Google.

With sick Pam Bondi on the White House's new advisory council on AI, Android users are right to avoid Gemini.

I never wanted AI on my phone, period. I don't care which one. The Google Assistant was more than enough, if not too much. Never got asked if I wanted any of this shit, it was just forcefully added into every fucking thing.

My old ass phone, Google pushed out AI. (I plan to swap to GrapheneOS soon). It's less useful than Assistant. And features are disappearing.

My Windows 10 PC... fucking AI added. To be honest, never opened it.

Because I use Android Auto when driving, technically, thanks to Google, I have AI there too. And as stated, it's less functional than the original assistant.

Drive-thru... AI. It's slower and less accurate than a person. Only upside, because it doesn't have a budget mic from the 1980's it's clearer than a person.

Work... AI. Co-Pilot for VSCode, as a tool, it's fine, get's a lot wrong. But I had some upper manager claim they recreated DoorDash in like 5 minutes with AI (clearly they didn't). We just had a recent wave of layoffs (I survived). But they are monitoring AI usage to ensure we use enough per month...

News?... AI. Both good or bad news about it, I'm just so fucking sick of the exact same things. Trump, AI, Trump, AI, Trump, AI... that's all it is, all the time. Just how both are fucking everyone.

Its my computer device. Only I should have say on what shit is installed on it and runs on it.

It's cool how they've broken assistant so badly that commands like "Call Mom" and "Set a timer for 20 minutes" no longer work for me the majority of the time.

Use android and don't have any of this enabled. That's not to say I'm an anti-Ai purist. If I want to do a query I open an app and then close it when I'm done. This work flow just works so much better than having some sort of constant monitoring trying to be available when not needed. From Clippy to Gemini the idea of lurking pro-active Ai assistance has failed. This needs to be a pull function not a push.

To save you all some time, this is the poll.

Lmk when AI can clean my house and do my dishes.

Then i might be interested, maybe.