With sick Pam Bondi on the White House’s new advisory council on AI, Android users are right to avoid Gemini.
The desperate forced adoption of “AI” seems more like rape than marketing.
I disabled Gemini. But unfortunately they tied a whole host of features I really liked about my phone to that fucking thing. And now they’re all unusable. Google has effectively made themselves useless to me. There is now literally no point in having Android over any other OS that exists.
I can not for the life of me figure out a single problem or need I have in my life where the solution is “more technology”.
I could not care less. I’m at zero Kelvin for technology. Nothing’s moving, there’s no interaction, I do not care.
Again, add this to the ‘no shit’ bag
It’s not Intelligent. I call it Artificial Incompetence.
I have Actual Intelligence and Google has Anti Intelligence in their stuff now.
Big woop. Over the last year or so, it moved from “can reliably set a timer” to having to yell at it, multiple times, crossing an unexpected amount of hurdles, to get it to maybe understand that you want to set a timer, and god forbids that you want it with a specific name and duration. Oh, and the icing on the cake : it worked perfectly when it was locally running on the phone, and started going downhill when they pulled the plug on that.
I wonder why people aren’t sold on such wonderful tech.
It’s like letting a street drug dealer be your doctor. You don’t want to find out what they’re gonna mix into your food.
I don’t want it and as soon as I found out how to disable it, I did so
just another peice of data trash to dump at the earliest opportunity. they keep trying to fix problems they create
With Gemini Intelligence, Google plans to take Gemini’s agentic capabilities to the next level, where it can also handle complex tasks, such as finding the most suitable guided tours that fit your specific requirements.
Why would anyone do that ?
Seems its just an answer still searching for a question.
True! Messaging. Forgot about it. I’ll add.
The majority of people’s issue with AI is that it’s an unhelpful level of competence. It’s obviously advanced enough that it isn’t just a basic automation tool while at the same time being stupid enough that you would never trust its output. This puts it in an awkward cultural point where it’s use is effectively nullified by its own incapabilities.
Essentially I spend about as much time fact checking it as it would if I just done the task myself.
I swear we were told when all this started the AI was going to bring about a cultural revolution give us Star Trek replicators and warp drive.
AI is like a 5 year old that can write perfect english, is really good at arguing his point but totally lacks self reflection skills and likes to make up stuff.
LLMs are just knowledge replicators. There are multiple Star Trek episodes that feature this kind of technology without any actuall intelligence but incredibly good at replicating preexisting knowledge and experiences.
Like the Drone that Picard encountered where he lived an entire life in a civilisation that had died long ago. Or basically all Holodeck Episodes.
Still actual intelligence with creative thought is something somehow different.
Tbf 5 years could really argue their point if you just believe they are not 5. Something about having infinite confidence.
I never wanted AI on my phone, period. I don’t care which one. The Google Assistant was more than enough, if not too much. Never got asked if I wanted any of this shit, it was just forcefully added into every fucking thing.
My old ass phone, Google pushed out AI. (I plan to swap to GrapheneOS soon). It’s less useful than Assistant. And features are disappearing.
My Windows 10 PC… fucking AI added. To be honest, never opened it.
Because I use Android Auto when driving, technically, thanks to Google, I have AI there too. And as stated, it’s less functional than the original assistant.
Drive-thru… AI. It’s slower and less accurate than a person. Only upside, because it doesn’t have a budget mic from the 1980’s it’s clearer than a person.
Work… AI. Co-Pilot for VSCode, as a tool, it’s fine, get’s a lot wrong. But I had some upper manager claim they recreated DoorDash in like 5 minutes with AI (clearly they didn’t). We just had a recent wave of layoffs (I survived). But they are monitoring AI usage to ensure we use enough per month…
News?.. AI. Both good or bad news about it, I’m just so fucking sick of the exact same things. Trump, AI, Trump, AI, Trump, AI… that’s all it is, all the time. Just how both are fucking everyone.
About 30% of my interactions with Google assistant were me asking for a joke, 20% ended in frustration that it didn’t accomplish whatever task I hoped to do hands-free, 40% getting pissed at it responding to “okay” when it wasn’t supposed to and 10% that it didn’t respond when I wanted it to.
Eventually I turned off the voice activation entirely, and my number of interactions since has sharply decreased.
Now I’m throwing it out entirely.
But they are monitoring AI usage to ensure we use enough per month…
Tokenmaxxing for the win
I had some upper manager claim they recreated DoorDash in like 5 minutes with AI
lol k
I just disable Gemini, not interested. When I need ai - I just open chatgpt or deepseek or any other app
