I was surprised to find Gemini had replaced assistant. It couldn't even add items to the shopping list. Thankfully one is able to revert the change.
Gemini can't do a damn thing. It's completely useless as a digital assistant. It can't even play music on YouTube Music. Who thought it would be a good idea to replace the Google Assistant with this?
So you can't ID songs either?
Yeah but I'm not going around boasting that I can.
wow - surely not being able to recognize songs totally defeats the purpose of an assistant
/s
Shazam solved music recognition 20y ago, just stop whining and use a tool that has this feature.
That's like complaining my coffee maker doesn't make tea.
Google Assistant could do it.
So it’s more like complaining that your coffee maker stopped making the water hot.
Pixels just do it automatically on the lock screen, no need for assistant, or even going online, it works just on the phone.
It's pretty good but it works with a limited database stored on your phone.
With Google Assistant's music recognition you get to access a larger database stored on their servers.
and GA is still available, just use it
For now.
Google fully intends to replace GA with Gemini.
yes... as soon as it has feature parity with assistant, which will take a while
Ah yes Google is well known for achieving feature parity with its own competing apps before axing them after all.
if that was the case they would have just embedded gemini into the assistant app and raised the middle finger to all their user base
There's a big bonus and promotion for the Gemini's product manager. That means GA is on the death row.
They're already removing features from GA, so "reaching parity" is faster
yeah, that's shitty
not knowing any better, I'd guess these "improvements" are effects of some of those layoffs
They ran Gmail and Inbox concurrently before axing one and not reaching feature parity.
They ran Google Music and YouTube music concurrently before axing one and not reaching feature parity.
Etc.
So why would that be the case?
Don't remind me inbox is gone! I want that sweet sweet mail organization back in my life.
that only implies they're axing gemini, which would solve the "problem" posted above
in other words, the post complains about something that hasn't happened yet
just keep using google assistant
They mean YouTube music and Google play music concurrently and we still don't have feature parity for Google play music features on YouTube music.
Umm.. they're doing this. I literally was prompted the other day to test out Gemini as my assistant app. Granted this was my fuckup by opting in, but I thought it'd at least have the basics.. Now I can't set reminders, or look up my calendar info with my voice like I used to. Not being able to identify songs is just as equally ridiculous. It barely searches.
yes, we know it's limited - but can't you go back to assistant? I have the option
Yeah, and it's almost like that is still an ongoing thing hence it's quite understandable that Gemini is severly unfinished and broken for now.
A better comparison would be that your coffee maker's RGB light no longer supports a specific off-shade of pink.
Google assistant is already almost useless (at least in my language, I get almost always a "sorry, I didn't understand" answer, but your mileage may vary), a newer version that can't interact with anything seems pointless.
"Send Whatsapp to..." - "I can't interact with Whatsapp"
"Turn off the lights" - "I don't have access to this"
"Identify this song" - "use our competitor's app"
GA was amazing years ago, it’s gotten consistently worse over time to the point I’ve stopped using it in my home for anything other than asking today’s weather when I wake up.
Selfhosting an assistant will probably work better and be much for privacy friendly
It can do nothing at all, no LLM does anything correctly.
Don't need to install a dedicated third party app for that, the Google app already exposes a widget for sound search
I'm always using assistant to play music in the car or on home speakers. Gemini isn't able to do this. I also discovered I can't use the Gemini app without allowing it to replace the assistant.
I will say I have had similar problems getting assistant to identify songs. It used to work pretty seamlessly.
Against all privacy recommendations I do allow my phone to id music at all times. Nice thing is I have a shortcut to history, it doesn't always work, bit does most of the time.
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