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I'm all aboard the Google Assistant with Bard hype train, and you should be too - Android Central (www.androidcentral.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I've barely tried these AI assistants everybody seems so hyped about, but you can up flight and hotel info, and Google has vaguely implied that it'll be able to do more in the future so I'm super excited!"

I mean, couldn't Google Assistant already look up flight and hotel info before? Doesn't the introduction of generative AI just transform that look up from simply scanning email and regurgitating info into a weird black box AI task that's right about 30% of the time but confident all the time?

He pretty much admits he has no idea what generative AI chatbots are, and it really shows from the article.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah a lot of the features promised were already available at one point and taken away. I miss having the assistant show me a list of important info, like expected packages, priority emails, and appointments in one place. Google got rid of all that stuff and replaced the home feed with a buncha click bait news articles instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I remember back when they introduced Google now, and how it wasn't that great and slowly started to suck more and more. I have since disabled the Google app on my phone, and don't miss it in the slightest. I have a browser to handle my searches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This really doesn’t seem like much.

My utopia would be a home assistant with a chat bot who is, quite literally, an “imaginary friend”. Somebody to just…talk to. No judgement, no drama. Remembered what you talked about before. Knows your emails and IMs and texts, and essentially every digital memory. Maybe not quite an actual therapist, but more like a trusted confidant.

Of course this would have to be self-hosted or Google would have to absolutely guarantee that all of its data is sandboxed and only used to train your friend.