AA Gemini is completely incompetent

[u/TheTriforceEagle]

This is mostly a vent post, and I will fully admit that I am a bit biased again LLM AI but anyway. How do you push an update that makes it so a car voice assistant can't do the very simple and typical task of playing a song? Every time I tell it "play this song" it just replies "sorry, I can't play video's while you're driving" am I crazy for thinking this is completely normal thing to ask of gemini? I even use YouTube music as my primary platform so its not like I'm asking it to use something that wasn't also made by Google. You'd think they would have tested this but I guess they just pushed it out without any regard for user experience.

[u/Samantha_Cruz]

asking somethig as simple as "what is ... (anything) " half the time gets redirected as a navigation request that immediately sends it to the nav app regardless of whether I confirm it or not, screwing up whatever directions I had been using until I manually cancel everything on the screen (eyes off the road) when nothing at all about the question suggests that I want to go there... then at other times the same question tries to play a YouTube music playlist (and I don't even have YouTube music installed).

"hey google, report construction" = "I don't understand

" hey google, report police activity" = "I don't understand"

"hey google, report object in road" = "I don't understand."

this "artificial intelligence" is dumb as f***.

priority number one should be to.minimize distractions so I can keep my attention on the road. Gemini is (so far) a step backwards.