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The non—ai assistant they used to use does so much more with the same interface. Idk how they fucked it up by making the tts output ai generated but the thing can’t do literally any of the things I used the old assistant for.
Someone is making money, all their spending must go somewhere.
Mostly Nvidia I guess.
Spending $100 billion on AI is insane, even with Google Money.
I just want my routines back on Google Assistant, I want to hear my news show in the morning, I want to hear the weather report, I want reminders on my schedule, I don’t use the AI more than I used Assistant.
Is it not possible to switch back? I refused the Gemini offer when it appeared.
I was tempted to try it if it appeared again, but I need assistant to perform basic functions more than I need it to have a conversation.
Honestly it’s the same for me, I’m still figuring out the real hard use case for ai apart from writing journals
There are quite a few great cases for AI, but all of them need mountains of clean data. Thats always been the challenge and very few are working to solving it. The most successful ones are those that are creating their own data by building out their own expensive sensor networks in controlled spaces. That doesn’t really work for the general AI that everyone wants to do the mundane tasks in their general work tasks or at home.
scamming people with ai arts and photos. framing your boss with a fake ai voice, make a garbage video script for social media content. the possibilities are endless! \s
Do any of them? I mean beyond glorified search and summarization?
It’s a little funny how everyone sobered up from perpetually investing in unprofitable free social media then they dove right back in to perpetually investing in LLMs with no real plan for sustainable profit.
It’s why Google is secretly in big trouble. Their biggest and most successful ideas were from well over a decade ago. There’s very little real innovation going on at Google now. They’re just throwing crap at a wall and hoping something sticks. Eventually, their cash cows will dry up and they won’t have anything to fall back on.
They had so many great innovations over the years, the problem is they kill them off because they somehow can’t figure out how to monetize stuff that people want. It’s like if they can’t get the money from a third party, they’re out of ideas. I would have paid a monthly fee for Google Reader (not much, mind you, but I bet $1/month would have been enough to keep it running). I am now paying for Kagi because I prefer to be the customer and not the product.
Probably because they’re trying to sell shit with the assistant rather than the assistant be the product. I swear our echos get worse literally every day. No, I don’t ever want to hear “also” or “did you know” after you answered my question, shut up and stop trying to sell me stuff!
Selling you shit has always been the point for echo/alexa. The device is sold at cost and the assistant is “free” because they’re trying to make money from the other side of the business.
It hasn’t worked at all, by the way. This more aggressive version is a last ditch effort to make it profitable. The only ones who managed to make smart speakers profitable are Apple, but that’s because they charge much more for the device
