At least I can use Shazam

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      It asked me to give a vote on how useful was the interaction. On the screen there was numbers from 1 to 5. I pressed 1 and it searched “1” on Google.

      Ten years ago it wasn’t dumb like this…

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        Lmao that’s extremely accurate in my experience.

        Sometimes I would ask for a destination “let’s go to xyz” and it searched YouTube Music. How???

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            If you have an assistant device, Set a timer called cookies, or many other types of food, and you’ll get a little jingle with it.

            On the phone, you’ll just get a timer.

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          once when driving the radio host was talking about the malvinas/falkland islands (500 km from argentina). Because i’m in europe and i was driving i was curious about the location, so i asked the assistant “where are the falkland islands”?). It set a FUCKING DRIVING ROUTE OF FIVE FUCKING DAYS, to go to over there AND BACK

          it doesn’t need a sophisticated AI to know that if i’m driving to work during a workday, i don’t want to drive to the extreme end of south america and going back because i’m curious about the location…

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            I call this the “Having so many people with PhDs that you become stupid” effect. PhDs are great, people with PhDs are great, but at some point they all started inhaling their own farts and things started going downhill.

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        I know exactly what you mean. I use nest hub max for cooking recipes a lot. When I get to the final step there’s a “done” button. I click it and Google says “I’m sorry I don’t know how to help with that” like. What the fuck

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        Alexa got dumb too. I’ll ask her to turn on the fan and she’ll turn on the fan in another room but telling her to turn off the fan turns off the correct one. I ended up getting a HomePod. Siri may be basic but at least she knows what room she’s in.

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      Somehow the assistant manages to instantly turn on and respond any time I don’t need it, but when I do, I have to repeat myself at least 10 times, for a basic question

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        Pretty much the reason I never used it on my last phone. Even went through the steps to have it recognize my voice better, and even when it hears it the first time there’s a 1 second delay before it actually starts listening, which makes me further contemplate why I bothered.