So I finally let my Android Auto update from Google Assistant to Gemini, which it’s been wanting for months.
First thing I did was prompt it to play a specific artist, just like I do at least once a week since it forces me to use the voice activation instead of the on screen keyboard, even when there are passengers that can type. It responded saying it is not capable of playing music at all. Wtf.
So I then rephrase and tell it to play the artist on YouTube Music… And it does so, but doesn’t get the artist even close to correct. I had to prompt it 5 times with varying emphasis to get it to finally get it right.
So literally the first thing it did wa like to me… and then it worked correctly less than 20% of the time… So much better than the Assistant it replaced that never gave me a problem. Totally better.
My car with Google assistant interrupted my conversation with my girlfriend yesterday and started giving me a haiku very loudly for no reason. I guess it was listening and thought we said haiku…
At least it made us laugh. But technology is ridiculous right now. So much shit we don’t want or need.
It has to do that to know when you say a keyword like “hey Google”. I just wonder what other keywords it’s listening to and using to serve ads or profile me as a user.
At least all the things NSA and CIA are interested at the time…
All new things always have an intelligence aspect to it:
Find my network: Find any device globally by its ”anonymized” identifier. Make a device you hack remotely send these BLE pings and voilà, some Apple or Google device is surely nearby to hear it and tell you where it is.
Voice assistants: Hear what people talk about privately by injecting new wake-up words like ”Trump”. Cannot be used en masse yet perhaps because it’s usually only the device detecting the trigger word, and sending ”uncertain interpretations” too often would get noticed by someone.
LLM chats: Well the same as Google searches etc. historically but now way more nuanced and with more context of what the target in intending/thinking. Building a psychological profile of them through features like ”memory”. And as LLM is such an undeterministic black box, you can easily get away with injecting all sorts of ideas through its responces.
We have seen the step by step dance into dystopia for decades now. Tech is only improving our society as a side effect of monitoring people or charging more money from people.
I remember using Google Now on my Galaxy Nexus a lot and actually finding it useful. Then Google pushed for Assistant and it was a dumpster fire. Glad to see that big G is still up to the same shenanigans.
Same thing with swapping to Gemini on the phone. First thing and only thing I asked for was to set a reminder alarm. But Gemini couldn’t talk to the clock app and refused. In the trash it went.
So I finally let my Android Auto update from Google Assistant to Gemini, which it’s been wanting for months.
First thing I did was prompt it to play a specific artist, just like I do at least once a week since it forces me to use the voice activation instead of the on screen keyboard, even when there are passengers that can type. It responded saying it is not capable of playing music at all. Wtf.
So I then rephrase and tell it to play the artist on YouTube Music… And it does so, but doesn’t get the artist even close to correct. I had to prompt it 5 times with varying emphasis to get it to finally get it right.
So literally the first thing it did wa like to me… and then it worked correctly less than 20% of the time… So much better than the Assistant it replaced that never gave me a problem. Totally better.
My car with Google assistant interrupted my conversation with my girlfriend yesterday and started giving me a haiku very loudly for no reason. I guess it was listening and thought we said haiku…
At least it made us laugh. But technology is ridiculous right now. So much shit we don’t want or need.
Even more scarier: it’s listening when you don’t know or want to
It has to do that to know when you say a keyword like “hey Google”. I just wonder what other keywords it’s listening to and using to serve ads or profile me as a user.
At least all the things NSA and CIA are interested at the time…
All new things always have an intelligence aspect to it:
We have seen the step by step dance into dystopia for decades now. Tech is only improving our society as a side effect of monitoring people or charging more money from people.
I remember using Google Now on my Galaxy Nexus a lot and actually finding it useful. Then Google pushed for Assistant and it was a dumpster fire. Glad to see that big G is still up to the same shenanigans.
Same thing with swapping to Gemini on the phone. First thing and only thing I asked for was to set a reminder alarm. But Gemini couldn’t talk to the clock app and refused. In the trash it went.