Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.

Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”

  • @glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50•11 months ago

    Google Assistant has become so awful in the past few years.

    Ok Google, give me directions to John’s house

    “Ok, navigating you to John’s Lake House Restaurant”

    Bitch, I have a SAVED ADDRESS in Google Maps titled “John’s House.” Why would you not assume I wanted to go there instead of some restaurant 3 hours away?

    • Norgur
      24•11 months ago

      Yeah, Like, we are facing a world where faking a celebrity’s voice and having it respond to everything you say completely life-like is a matter of minutes while the “smart” speaker in your house talks like a robocall from the 90s and doesn’t understand a single thing when you don’t adhere to a very specific command syntax.

      • @glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12•11 months ago

        OK Google, search for Asparagus and feta appetizer recipe

        “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to help with that” and then closes.

        SHOW ME THE SEARCH RESULTS

        • Norgur
          8•11 months ago

          Ok Google, switch off the TV.(that is in the same room as you in the Google home app)
          “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to help with that”
          Ok Google, switch off the TV in the living room
          “There was a problem. Please try again in a few seconds”
          Gnah! Ok Google, switch off the TV in the living room!!!
          “Okay, 10h Video of switch off sounds is being played on the device ‘bedroom’”
          What. The. Fuck.?!

    • @cafeinux@infosec.pubEnglish
      14•11 months ago

      The only use I have for Google Assistant is to call people when I’m in my car, and even then it doesn’t work correctly.

      • “Call <wife’s first name>” -> Calls a business in a neighbouring country which happens to have the same (common) name as my wife.
      • “Call <wife’s first and last name>” -> Calls my wife.
      • “Call <father’s first and last name>” -> Calls another business in the same neighbouring country which name contains my father’s first and last name.
      • “Call <father’s first name>” -> Calls my father.

      Wtf really. Those two businesses must keep wondering who’s that number that keeps calling them at absurd times from another country and never leaves a message, because I can never remember who I must use the full name of…

      • @entropicdriftEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        You can tell it your relationship to your contacts and then you can just say “call my wife” or “call my dad” and it’ll work.

        • @cafeinux@infosec.pubEnglish
          1•11 months ago

          I’m not that comfortable with the idea of giving that kind of information to Google (I’m already beating myself up for using Google Assistant in my car). Yet somehow I feel like they already know that kind of information.

          • @entropicdriftEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            They definitely know already. And regardless, Facebook knows for sure and they’re 10x worse

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      10•11 months ago

      I just asked that the other day to do what I would consider. One of the most basic tasks, add something to my shopping list. It didn’t and I got to the store and it said I had no list, so I really don’t know why I have them anymore except for speaker abilities