Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant::Up to 20 employees working on Google’s Assistant team have been cut.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry, I don’t understand. But would you like to hear why employees working on its voice assistant are being laid off by Google?

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        1 year ago

        I unplugged mine a few weeks ago. I realized literally the only thing I use it for is occasionally finding my phone… besides that, it fucks up basically every instruction I give it

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            1 year ago

            Except that it ALWAYS continues to listen after the command and you have to yell at it to fuck off.

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            1 year ago

            Oh really? I can no longer get it to set a recurring alarm every monday through thursday. It’s just not understanding any of the commands there that it did before.

      • zwaetschgeraeuber@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        same. throwing out my speakers as they understand less each day as it feels. now its only a clap light switch and everything else, i at least have to ask 2 times

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        1 year ago

        I’ve never before been so glad to read about someone else’s misfortune. Mine have been doing this for MONTHS and I thought it was just me imagining things

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        Every time I hear about some proprietary thing getting effectively bricked by the company that sold them so they don’t have to support them forever, I wonder “what did you think was going to happen?”