The Assistant experience on mobile is upgrading to Gemini
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Over the coming months, we’ll be upgrading users on mobile devices from Google Assistant to Gemini.

We’re upgrading Google Assistant users on mobile to Gemini, offering a new kind of help only possible with the power of AI.

  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    3 days ago

    Gemini is hardly an uprade to Assistant, though. Gemini can’t do any task automation (aka the one thing Google Assistant could do) because it’s a LLM that most likely doesn’t even ‘know’ that it’s being run on a phone…

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Yes. This is why I’ve disabled it repeatedly when it supplants my assistant.

      If they remove automation, well, that was the one thing standing between me and de-googling.

      • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I don’t know if they can really do that since Gemini is just an LLM at its core. Maybe they could integrate Assistant functionality into Gemini on Android that’s then triggered by certain keywords, but at that point why not just keep both Assistant and Gemini?