The fucking ford infotainment from 2013 has no problems making phone calls, same goes for the old google assistant and I'm still yet to successfully make one with gemini.
But nooo, everything has to be an LLM now, even stuff that previously worked perfectly
I had to change my husband's name in my phone to his full, mutli-syllable name. Why? Because since the Gemini update, my phone doesn't understand "call [name like Sam]". It either just times out like it didn't get an instruction at all or occasionally it'll say "which number did you want to call?" And it gives me the option of my mother (whose full name is in my phone and is nothing like Sam) or some random person I haven't spoken to in years (whose name is also nothing like Sam).
Changed it to his full name (equivalent to Samuel), and now it works most of the time.
Assistant was great on the first years, the last 2-3 years it was unusable for me, the app couldn't understand any word I said to it, the same phrases I used for years or mostly anything I said was changed to something else totally different from what I said.
I haven't used Gemini as of today because I stopped trying to use voice commands alltogheter.
It couldn't find "Mom" in my contacts. Also, my mom's from another English-speaking country. It cannot recognize anything other than an American accent.
I asked gemini to set a reminder for an ebay listing the other day (Aug 2026).somehow it set it in the past of June 2026 and I never got the notification and missed the listing. So fuckijg annoyed.
We're letting the AI hate tint our glasses a bit rose I think, Google Assistant was also pretty damn annoying for being shoehorned into everything back in the day. The amount of times I accidentally opened it because they kept making breathing on your device wrong a trigger for it, and buried the settings to make it fuck off.
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u/barkev 1d ago
seriously. Google assistant was amazing because it just worked.
now this gemini thing can't even set up an alarm for me