Google’s AI now goes by a new name: Gemini
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Gemini is coming to your phone, your email, your everything.

Personally, I don’t like it as an Assistant replacement: it can’t do routines among other issues.

  • @APassengerEnglish
    16•10 months ago

    I’ve stopped adopting Google products and I think I recommend it for others as well. They limp in with something half-finished, don’t get the adoption a mostly finished product would, then throw up their hands.

    Im tryinf to de-cloud all together and expect I can get mostly there within the next 18 months.

    If you have patience and a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, I suspect it’s a better and cheaper (and more future proof) solution.

    • Dark ArcEnglish
      7•10 months ago

      Yeah… It seems to be a management issue. They underinvestment, under communicate, then drop the product when it’s not magically successful because of the brand that launched it.

      Stadia is my prime example where they just needed to stand their ground and work on the platform’s software. Hardware wise, they could just resell GPUs people aren’t using in Google cloud.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•10 months ago

        I personally feel like stadia was a self-fulfilling prophecy. It shut down because people didn’t use it, and they didn’t use it because they were afraid of it shutting down like Google always does with stuff

        • @APassengerEnglish
          8•10 months ago

          But Google has earned that rep. And they aren’t saying or doing much to change it.

          Minimal vision, weak execution, MVP agile approach with strong emphasis on the "Minimally,* and no heart, soul, grit.

          I know they’re a business, but sometimes, I think, if they could just be okay losing money for longer, they’d turn some of the projects into something good.

          I really don’t like Zuck, but he’s willing to lose billions a year on things he believes in. Google doesn’t do that (much) now. AI and quantum computing are the only things that spring to mind.

        • Dark ArcEnglish
          2•10 months ago

          They should’ve just made a public legally binding promise to run the service for at least 15 years or all purchased games and hardware will be refunded.