I’m not sure if this is a corollary to or sequel to Better is Worse or Not So Intelligent but it feels a little like both.
Google Assistant in Android Auto couldn’t cope with my contacts. The only way I was able to voice text my wife while driving was to add a nickname to her contact entry and say, “Hey, Google, text my lovely wife.” Since the Gemini “upgrade,” I can’t text her at all.
- Me: Text my lovely wife.
- Gemini: Text “Susan Lovey-Jones?”
- Me: No. Jane Miller.
- G: Text “Jennifer Miller?”
- Me: No. Jane Mitchell.
- G: Text “Jason Mitchell?”
- Me: Nevermind.
Between trips, added “Spouse” as relationship to her contact.
- Me: Text my spouse.
- G: I can’t find a contact for “my spouse.”
- Me: I have a contact with the nickname “my lovely wife,” text her.
That didn’t work either. I never succeeded.
I’m a little allergic to “new” though I realize change is inevitable. But is it too much to ask that the new system is at least as good as the one it replaces?
(It’s a little ironic that I used Gemini to generate the image at the top of the post. When AI works, it works.)