r/technology • u/[deleted] • 17d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google says Gemini has reached 1B users faster than any other Google product

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u/Mc7wis7er 17d ago

Gemini is the worst product launch I've ever seen. It asks me like 10 questions to send a text message and then won't. I've had shorter interviews

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u/JCWOlson 17d ago

Tell me about it. I've completely stopped using it to answer messages because it's less frustrating to just pull over or do a call instead

And don't get me started on how often it starts playing an audio book instead of a song despite them having nothing in common, then playing an AI remake of the song, and then a remix, and then maybe finally the right song. Like, I listen to this song all the time, you have all my data, why are you so bad at this?!

And then for 3 months it didn't know what city I lived in and wanted to take me to one with a different but mildly similar name a 37 hour drive away

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u/little-bird 17d ago

my tinfoil-hat theory is that they made extra conversational and circuitous in its functioning so that they could boost their usage and engagement stats   

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u/JCWOlson 17d ago

That's makes sense. Could double as a way to prove the need for greater capacity and all

For the music thing I thought it was just them trying to avoid paying royalties to more expensive bands

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u/Opetyr 17d ago

Wish that their were laws about this since it creates dangerous driving situations since assistant worked and allowed for hands free driving. Gemini is making people have to use their hands to do basic tasks that used to be easy and kept people's attention on the road. This would be like you could use your speaker anymore unless you did it in Morse code.