Honestly, the biggest thing they need to fix is the assistant. It can’t even set the alarm to 5:05 with voice commands, without suggesting that I meant to say 5:05, which is exactly what I said.
It often mistakes what was said, and does a google search, even though you asked it to do a function it’s perfomed many times before (like tirning on a light).
It blows my mind that half a year after the public launch of ChatGPT that Google Assistant seems to be getting dumber instead of smarter and Bard is a completely different silo’d product still.
My Google Assistant a while ago picked up a problem. I use it to set timers all the time. Suddenly, one day it wouldn’t understand “set a timer for 3:30” anymore and I’d have to say “3:30 pm”. Then its dementia progressed and it was setting timers for the next day unless I specified “today at 3:30 pm”. Then the day after that lucidity returned and it regained the ability to do the basic “set a timer for 3:30”. It doesn’t feel like it actually understands language at all. I appreciate that they’re making updates, but I wish they were updates for the better.
The first company that will sell me a smart speaker that works like ChatGPT/Bing/Bard/etc. and I throw my Nest speakers in the garbage and switch brands.
Recently my hub wouldn’t recognise “goodnight” as a household routine command, only as a personal one. Instead it’d just respond with a chipper “goodnight!”
Honestly, the biggest thing they need to fix is the assistant. It can’t even set the alarm to 5:05 with voice commands, without suggesting that I meant to say 5:05, which is exactly what I said.
It often mistakes what was said, and does a google search, even though you asked it to do a function it’s perfomed many times before (like tirning on a light).
It blows my mind that half a year after the public launch of ChatGPT that Google Assistant seems to be getting dumber instead of smarter and Bard is a completely different silo’d product still.
My Google Assistant a while ago picked up a problem. I use it to set timers all the time. Suddenly, one day it wouldn’t understand “set a timer for 3:30” anymore and I’d have to say “3:30 pm”. Then its dementia progressed and it was setting timers for the next day unless I specified “today at 3:30 pm”. Then the day after that lucidity returned and it regained the ability to do the basic “set a timer for 3:30”. It doesn’t feel like it actually understands language at all. I appreciate that they’re making updates, but I wish they were updates for the better.
The first company that will sell me a smart speaker that works like ChatGPT/Bing/Bard/etc. and I throw my Nest speakers in the garbage and switch brands.
Assistant has been wonky for years.
Recently my hub wouldn’t recognise “goodnight” as a household routine command, only as a personal one. Instead it’d just respond with a chipper “goodnight!”
There’s a new issue every week.