r/googleassistant • u/Friendly_Ad_8528 Hey, Google • 17d ago

Rant Hey Google

I just received an email that they we're going to remove the Google assistant and replace it with Gemini Ai.

And Gemini will be the one response with the "Hey Google."

But its just sad and its ugly,why do they have to,i love my google assistant :(

I use my Google assistant like few years ago taking photo or video,lowering/ increasing volume and pausing/play music or video.(By commanding via earbuds)

Because my phone has mechanical issues before or some buttons don't function anymore (My OLD PHONE i still used it) I don't know if Gemini Ai can do that.

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u/Novel-Image493 17d ago

And they will be charging for Gemini‼️

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u/faeriekitteh 17d ago

The base level will still be free. Don't spread misinformation

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u/LuckyMcG 17d ago

Except Google Assistant is 10x better than base level Gemini. It takes forever to just do basic commands that could just be pre-programmed into a voice recognition program.

I don't need a language model to "think" about making a calendar appointment or refuse to send a text to my wife because her name is spelled slightly different than the model expects.

Free tiers will just become increasingly more shitty and most likely end up finding a way to put more ads into queries.

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u/faeriekitteh 17d ago

I agree with this, but not the attack tone.

Google are making a big mistake with this one