Remember when Google made their assistant worse and we all predicted they were planning on bringing the same features back but using AI bullshit?

Bob@midwest.social to Android@lemdro.id – 381 points –

Yeah. They did exactly that

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I think that's the funniest part. Like, as far as I know, the regular Assistant uses the same approach to handling data that buzzword AI things use, a neural network. But branding (and potentially internal company politics) is weird, so they decided to kneecap Assistant in order to make Gemini look better on release.

Generative AI is different, it can generate better responses that aren't just programmed canned responses. However I fully agree with you, they're trying their hardest to do a bullshit rebrand with it. They could have just swapped it out with assistant and I would have been ecstatic. By rebranding it I get that same bad taste in my mouth whenever marketing elbows themselves into the conversation.

So... Literally the same voice input, but now with more time overhead waiting for responses so that it can be a bit more human sounding?