We’re upgrading Google Assistant users on mobile to Gemini, offering a new kind of help only possible with the power of AI.

  • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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    1223 hours ago

    Integrations with the phone’s functionality is key. I don’t care how clever the brain is, it needs to talk to the rest of the body.

    • @AynRandLibertarian
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      219 hours ago

      I’m somewhat of a boomer, what sort of things can you do through assistant?

      • @HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee
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        919 hours ago

        Set or change alarms, add reminders to your calendar, ask about those things, send text messages, start phone calls, have it read out last text messages received.

        When I was a truck driver, my wife could test me, and I could just listen to a transcript of what she sent instead of calling her and asking what she typed.

        “Hey Google, read my last text”

        “Hey Google, send a text to <wife>, 'Quit texting me while I’m driving, woman!” Stuff like that. 🤣

      • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        18 hours ago

        I use it to set reminders and alarms. I don’t keep the “OK google” stuff on, I just hold the power button for a second or two until the assistant pops up (or at least used to, I haven’t done it in a while so I’m not sure if it’s stupid gemini now instead), then just say like, “remind me friday at 3pm to call the doctor” and it does it.

      • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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        419 hours ago

        Usually quick things in the car when I don’t have hands.

        • Ask about weather
        • Set a reminder
        • Reply to a text