Scoop: Google Assistant to get an AI makeover (www.axios.com)

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[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good because it certainly needs an overhaul. I only use it on my nest hubs and it just seems to be getting worse and worse. Why after all this time can I still not say “turn off the kitchen lights and the office lights” and have it work? Seems to have gotten even worse since my devices updated to fuchsia too, along with general performance of the ui.

[-] ijeff 6 points 1 year ago

It definitely seems to have gotten worse. I have all of my Google Home devices sitting unused now. I ended up switching to the Amazon Echo for smart home purposes. The mics work much better and I haven't had to repeat myself since.

[-] pgm_01@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It is unclear how long Amazon will continue to support their assistant in the future. Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

People use exactly as you are, to control various smart devices, but that doesn't pay for the infrastructure that makes Alexa run, and people are not using it to buy stuff from Amazon as envisioned.

Google's products are getting worse as they are now deep into the enshitification process, and making investors happy takes precedence over users. I would welcome an improvement in Google Assistant, but it will probably manage to make things worse.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

You’d think with the release of the pixel tablet they’d be really trying to make the assistant as good as it can be, since home control is one of the biggest selling points of that device.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but then home control from a tablet was really a bad use case.

[-] chaircat 2 points 1 year ago

Amazon is making over Alexa the same way Google is doing to Assistant.

This probably means a new lease on life for all of these types of products. Version 1.0 didn't make money, but generative AI is the new hotness, so they're getting a whole new chance to prove themselves.

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/26/amazon-alexa-ai-home

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I want to know why I cannot set an alarm on one device and they have it play on all devices, why are alarms device specific?

That isn't useful.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Hm, but what if history repeats itself?
The new assistant starts great, then slowly gets worse just like the current one?

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I’ll take it being great for a while again.

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 3 points 1 year ago

We all knew this was coming from the last round of layoffs.

[-] cole 1 points 1 year ago

Love axios

this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023

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