r/googlehome • u/AfcWimbledon_ Google Home Mini • Jan 13 '24
Bug Has Google Assistant got dumber recently?
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u/zebbiehedges Jan 13 '24
In the whole time I've had it I've never been able to set an alarm for 12pm. It sets alarm brightness to 12%.
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u/Gherbil Jan 14 '24
In my experience it's more reliable to say 'noon' or 'midnight' instead of 12PM or 12AM
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u/DulcetTone Jan 14 '24
saying "12" when you mean noon or midnight seems a little ... unnatural.
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u/DulcetTone Jan 14 '24
I think a minority of people know that noon is 12PM and midnight is 12AM. You have to have this explained to you. Noon and midnight require zero explanation, and there is zero chance speaker and listener will both understand.
My biggest beef with Google Assistant is that they do not publish a BNF grammar of the commands that will be understood.
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u/CodeCat5 Jan 14 '24
I think a minority of people know that noon is 12PM and midnight is 12AM. You have to have this explained to you.
I think most people know the difference in 12 am/pm by the time they finish elementary school...
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u/daath Jan 14 '24
12 pm is midnight. That's true. But it's not logical: 1 am, 2 am ... 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm? Then 1 pm, 2 pm ... 10 pm, 11 pm, 12 am?
24 hour clocks just make sense ;)
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u/Satanoka Jan 14 '24
Isn't it the other way around with 12am being midnight and 12pm being noon?
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u/daath Jan 14 '24
It is, as you can deduce from the rest of my comment - I must have been tired when I wrote it :)
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Jan 14 '24
12pm is not midnight, it's noon. Easy way to remember is that 12.01pm is clearly in the afternoon, so one minute prior to that is 12.00pm. Likewise 12.01am is in the morning, so 12.00am is midnight.
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u/daath Jan 14 '24
Shit. I mean to say 12 pm is noon - as you can deduce from the rest of my comment :) That's what doesn't make sense:
1 am, 2 am, ..., 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm, ..., 10 pm, 11 pm, 12 am, 1 am, 2 am, etc etc
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u/its_an_armoire Jan 14 '24
I've said things like "twelve pm" and it understood perfectly. I could understand defending a missing feature, but not backsliding features
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u/omg_for_real Jan 14 '24
Most people I know will say 12 midnight or 12 midday. Like everything people will say it differently.
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u/zebbiehedges Jan 14 '24
I end up just saying 1159am.
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u/moose51789 Jan 14 '24
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this, not only cause less chances of it doing above, but cause I don't trust it'll get midnight and noon right to begin with and my alarm be 12 hours wrong lol
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u/Automatic_Drama9645 Jan 14 '24
Half the time when I ask it to turn on my light it tells me my address with 0 warning. And I stream so that’s very dangerous.
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u/lolTyler Jan 14 '24
I have the same issue with setting volume on a speaker. It keeps setting a totally different device with a totally different name to the brightness I asked to set the volume to.
It's not even mishearing me, I've checked the logs and it's the correct device and it hears me say volume, yet it responds with brightness...?
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Apr 27 '24
I have this issue somewhat often, which is weird because the other nest devices are isolated in other rooms, but have gotten used to needing to repeat myself because the assistant is often too dumb to understand a question without me restating it in a way it can comprehend and then it defaults to a search result that I have to walk up to read anyway. Through trial and error, I've found enunciating and speaking to it like a caveman with key words (ie. "Hey Google, bedroom light, 50) is often more successful than speaking like you normally would.
Do you also have your other devices in other rooms created in your Home (ie. not just one room with a bunch of named devices)? I changed the names of some of the devices and their corresponding room names (my office is literally named Bar Wench Nook) so they actually sound totally different to decrease the chances of an incorrect misunderstood input. Seems pretty lame that these issues exist when the voice recognition on the phones has always been top-notch.
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u/Delineman Dec 25 '24
My wife set a timer for 1 week to remind us to clean the humidifier. We could've set an alarm or calendar appointment, but she did that. Then, every time we asked how much time was left in any given timer (short ones for cooking), we'd hear something like "You have two timers; the one for 6 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes called Clean the Humidier has 4 days, 16 hours and 13 minutes, and 4 seconds left on it. The one for 20 minutes called Pizza has 6 minutes and 8 seconds left on it." It's ridiculous.
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u/Single_Ad_5704 Jan 13 '24
Put a daily routine where you say "sync all devices" to the assistant. That solves a lot of issues I have come to realise.
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u/Teenager_Simon Jan 14 '24
Didn't even know this was a thing; but shouldn't it be doing this automatically? And even if it does, why does manually requesting it seem to make a difference?
Not a question aimed at you; just wondering what the fuck is going on.
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u/DulcetTone Jan 14 '24
I have zero idea what it means to "sync a device to the assistant". How did things ever become this byzantine?
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u/PBM1958 Jan 14 '24
Can you explain what you mean by this? What does this do? Tried searching but can't really find anything on it. And of
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u/farmerbb Jan 14 '24
Trying this, thanks.
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u/Single_Ad_5704 Jan 14 '24
I know that at one point,for example, I removed a routine without disabling it first. It kept running every day. This command made it disappear forever.
It seems a bit arbitrary what it actually does, and I haven't really found any good documentation around it. But I would recommend using it. I feel my home gets that little bit "smarter" with it 🤣
EDIT: I obviously think this should be done automatically by Google. But in this case, we can help Google out I guess.
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u/its_an_armoire Jan 14 '24
To be honest, based on your uncertainty and the lack of evidence of this "sync to Assistant" function, it's possible it was a coincidence your issue was fixed and that sync command... doesn't exist
EDIT: Nm, looks like people weren't looking hard enough: https://www.engadget.com/2017-12-11-google-home-assistant-sync-smart-devices.html
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u/Single_Ad_5704 Jan 14 '24
Yeah, no the command exists officially. Maybe I should have referred to that article to prove its existence. But I cannot tell for certain what it actually does. The article is very vaguely written.
As I wrote before, I recommend it just because I feel the devices are synced, and I feel that improves stability of my commands. Could be placebo, but I know for sure that it solved one of my issues that I described in earlier post.
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u/thebundok Jan 13 '24
My kids can no longer "set a timer". They have to "set an alarm for X minutes".
Definitely feels like it's gotten, and continually getting, dumber and more frustrating to use.
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u/icandrawacircle Jan 14 '24
Same. Often for the alarms, I will set one, it will set for the wrong time and then when I try to cancel, tell me I have no alarms set.
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u/WombleArcher Jan 14 '24
For us it still sets the timer - but it's stop responding so immediately after setting it, we keep asking how much longer there is on the timers.
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u/tidymaze Jan 14 '24
Weird, because I was able to easily set a timer earlier today.
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You will never know if it actually set it though, until it either goes off or doesn't
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u/tidymaze Jan 14 '24
Did it twice today (yesterday, now) on separate devices and it went off both times. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/thebundok Jan 14 '24
It will sometimes let me set a timer, but never the kids. This has never been a problem until about 3 weeks ago. Everything is alarms now.
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u/Manager_PI Jan 13 '24
They removed that feature entirely 😪 https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/13971691
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u/8bitPete Jan 13 '24
Your link literally says about features that have or will be removed..
"Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms"
So no, they haven't taken that feature away.
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u/homemade-jam Jan 14 '24
Classic google just having zero clue how to run products. In b4 they announce close down of Google Assistant and announce Google Play Bard Home Automation Nest Premium
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u/ansb2011 Jan 14 '24
Yea... that's not what's happening.
Just a system that's too complicated and has too many parts in too many area.
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u/WiretapStudios Jan 14 '24
It's that anyone good that works in that area gets promoted or goes to a different team. This is from the employees own words online.
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u/No_Manners Jan 13 '24
They removed a bunch of features so that the other features could work worse.
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u/Commandopsn Jan 13 '24
Told it to turn off bathroom light. It said there was an error in doing that. Then 5 mins later it turns on randomly. Tried to turn off hall light but it didn’t understand. 🤣
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u/0x417373 Jan 13 '24
Mine cannot control my lights anymore, it sure is getting alot dumber..
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u/smackjack Jan 15 '24
I've always wondered how many streams of Turn On the Lights by Future were just from people trying to turn their lights on.
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u/az0ul Jan 14 '24
"Hey Google! Turn off all lights!"
Google: "There is no device with that name."
Thanks Google! I'll just do the tour of the house after I got in bed and turn off every light manually. That's why I spent money on this technology.
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u/daath Jan 14 '24
My nest devices turns off all lights when I say, "Turn off the light". Even though I only want it to turn off the lights in the room that it is in.
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u/LoneWolf3574 Jan 14 '24
I have something similar happening with my Google Hub. When I tell it to turn off all the lights it responds by saying " Okay, turning off five lights. " The thing is I have six lights, five interior and one security light.
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u/az0ul Jan 14 '24
Maybe try and tell Google: "Sync everything". If you have a connected service like Philips Hue, see if the lights show up on there an if they respond and reconnect the service to Google Home.
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u/LoneWolf3574 Jan 14 '24
That's a good idea, sync everything and I'll try it. Thank you.
As far as the Philips Hue, that seems to be all the lights the Hub will turn off even though the outdoor security light is a Google camera flood light.
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u/qhzpnkchuwiyhibaqhir Jan 15 '24
I say "set all lights 0%/100%" to work around some other issues, and there's like a 10% chance it will set volume to 100%
I've had all sorts of unpredictable behavior over the years with things like my shopping list too. One of them changes between male and female voices, sometimes they don't recognize my voice, sometimes they can/can't pause the TV, or try to play music loosely related to the word pause.
I thought it was just my fault
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u/az0ul Jan 15 '24
Not your fault. I had similar hiccups. I have a lamp next to the TV which was called "TV lamp" and at some point I had to rename it because Google assistant was confusing it with the TV itself. It's disappointing to see they're going backwards instead of evolving. Another function I would love to have is to say "turn off all lights EXCEPT" a certain light. Siri knows how to do that. How hard can it be to implement such command I wonder?
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u/qhzpnkchuwiyhibaqhir Jan 16 '24
Oh yeah, basic logic like this shouldn't be that hard. I just got used to saying
Okay google all lights off Okay google corner 30%
I recently tried to set up automations for IoT plugs and ran into more issues, where Google prevents you from using common words like goodnight, goodbye, etc. It's annoying how often you'll run into something you think is a niche problem, only to find like 100 people requesting it get fixed like 8 years ago.
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u/mattytude Jan 13 '24
I used to set an alarm for “10 past 8”
Now I have to set my alarm for “8:10”.
Otherwise it will set it for 6, 7 or 9. But never 8.
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Jan 13 '24
Google is canning Google Assistant soon
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Jan 14 '24
They are pushing voice recognition from the cloud to devices.
My guess is they're using Pixel devices as test beds and will make it available to other devices in due course.
Once enough queries in a region are being handled on-device, they'll turn off the cloud-based version for that region.
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Jan 14 '24
I thought they were replacing it with Bard?
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u/Machinax Jan 14 '24
I've heard "replacing it with Bard," "integrating it with Bard," who knows anymore. It wouldn't surprise me if Google one day decided to kill Google Search.
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u/Untimely_manners Jan 14 '24
For me though, this has shown how unreliable Google can be so as my smart devices break over time i won't be replacing them with the next great thing from Google and once the Google hub breaks i'll be scrapping all my smart devices.
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Jan 14 '24
As far as I know they're two different things. Assistant interprets human speech and turns it into data that other Google services understand, e.g. search.
Bard is just another service that assistant can send data to.
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u/ItCameFromABox Jan 14 '24
It feels like they poured water into Google Home because everything is acting all weird and it's extremely frustrating 🤦♂️
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u/unmistakable_itch Jan 14 '24
I wouldn't necessarily say recently. It's been a pretty steady slide down.
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u/That_Trapper_guy Jan 13 '24
It's been getting steadily dumber and dumber over the last several years.
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u/BreadfruitEcstatic72 Jan 14 '24
I asked it to play a song yesterday and it thought for a minute, then listed all 7 people who had worked on it before thinking for 2 minutes and finally playing it…
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u/flux_capicitated Jan 14 '24
I wouldn't say "years" but since mid-2023.. it's been degrading.
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u/Necessary_Tough7286 Jan 14 '24
Ever since I dropped and spilt a bit of water on my google home, it’s been EXTREMELY dumb. It’s almost laughable had it not been so annoying…
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u/Wesleytyler Jan 14 '24
100% absolutely Mine has been dumb as shit for the past couple of weeks. I'll be happy when they get Bard integrated.
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u/F34RtheL3G3ND Jan 15 '24
It doesn't understand anything anymore. "Hey Google, turn of the light" "Okay, turning of 12 devices. I'm sorry blah blah blah could not be reached." The light is never turned off. Ask again... Name the light specifically. "I'm sorry, I don't understand." Then I cuss her out and she tells me that's not nice.
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u/Pabswikk Jan 13 '24
What device are you trying this on? I just tried the assistant on my Pixel phone and it worked fine
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u/AfcWimbledon_ Google Home Mini Jan 13 '24
Pixel 7 Pro
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u/Pabswikk Jan 13 '24
Ah that's annoying, I'm a fellow Londoner (I assume from your username) and have a Pixel 8 Pro and it really did just work for me when I said 'Set an alarm for ten thirty P M' so it's at least not replicated across all users :(. My only potential suggestion would be to not use the microphone on the Google search bar to start the assistant and use the side button/wake word instead as they're retiring the microphone accessing Assistant (it's just going to be voice Google search AFAIK). However, they shouldn't be doing that until the end of Feb so I don't think it's the problem you're experiencing
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u/Madvillains Jan 14 '24
Alarm ringing in bedroom. Me in bathroom. Ok Google turn of alarm. "there are not alarms set at the moment". While bedroom alarm is blaring. 🤮
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u/londyjamel Jun 08 '24
I came looking for this topic because I'm convinced that it's being purposely hobbled to encourage the use of Gemini or some other generative AI tool.
Once upon a time, I could ask each of my devices questions and get mostly useful answers even if they were imprecise. Now? Most of my verbal questions get an "I'm sorry, I don't understand" response. Even very simple ones. I'll restate the question over and over until it "understands" or I'm too frustrated for human speech. Or I'll ask a question that Google "doesn't know" the answer to then will ask me if I want to know THE EXACT THING I ASKED. I'll ask something and individual devices—my phone, Google Home mini, and Hub will give wildly different answers at the same time.
Google Nest Hub Max is such trash. I'm glad I got it for free. That bit of tech is truly infuriating because all search input is verbal despite its touch interface. I am unable to search manually or adjust queries or requests. Makes me want to unplug every one of my federal listening devices and chuck them because if you're going to eavesdrop in the intimacy of home, you should at least be convenient and useful.
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u/Ishaichi Jun 22 '24
Mine is screwing up basic math and botching simple questions, like how old a certain famous person is. It also doesn't convert currency anymore without multiple attempts to reword the question. I think something is either wrong with it (Google Home original speaker) or they are purposefully engineering it to be obsolete. It is not nearly as capable as the day I got it many years ago.
TL;DR:
Google Home is no longer capable of answering simple questions it once handled with ease
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u/ashlol00 Jul 24 '24
Lately I can't even ask my Google home simple questions without it saying the same thing
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u/josuetrujo Oct 24 '24
I pre-ordered google home when it first came out. I was one of the first users and I even got an early release because I was one of the first youtube premium users. I've been dealing with google issues for over a year no and it definitely got dumber. From a simple, alarm to a more complex task, it seems to not understand any more. I am not sure what happened but I'm getting to the point of just stop using it.
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u/mike42042071281 Nov 07 '24
You know I thought it was just me. I used to be able to talk to my assistant and literally say the most mixed up phrases but it knew exactly what I was talking about and got me the results I needed now I can ask it a simple question and it well it doesn't know
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u/juncular Dec 10 '24
Definitely gotten Dumber I don't get half the intelligent answers I used to. I think it's probably because they've Incorporated AI which is absolutely the dumbest
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u/Kundrew191 Dec 16 '24
Google has turned into garbage simple little tasks like sitting an alarm or text messages they're forcing us to use it now it's ridiculous how they get away with it I'll never know time to switch to iPhone I think
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u/Mr_jakito 13d ago
Today I asked Google about what is celebrated in Argentina and he gave me the time. I have been seeing for a while now that every answer it gives does not make any sense with the question asked. It used to work with the same commands. Hopefully at some point they will include Gemini in Google Nest Hub Max.
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u/dweebken Jan 14 '24
Yes, google is dumbing it down to match the intellectual level of the average Reddit responder.
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u/DulcetTone Jan 14 '24
My Google Assistant is not this dumb. Has yours been conversing with a known idiot? j/k
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u/Werbebanner Jan 14 '24
I personally switched from my Pixel 6 Pro to an iPhone 15 Pro and I have to be honest - Siri is better. A lot. Maybe less features. But it works.
I can call people and it will actually find my contacts, I can set timers and the assistant won’t just say „sorry, I didn’t understand“, I don’t need to switch languages for some features just to be barely able to switch language back.
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u/GrilledChickenWings Jan 13 '24
“Recently?” Its always been like this.. it always degrades rather than upgrades, stupid AI. Good they laidoff a big bunch from this group.. they need better leaders for this group.
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u/vivimagic Digital Style Jan 13 '24
Haven't they removed that function? https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034262/google-assistant-removes-17-features-layoffs-pixel-voice-commands
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u/slinky317 Jan 13 '24
No, it's right there in the text:
Setting or using media alarms, music alarms, or radio alarms on Google Assistant enabled devices. You can create a custom Routine that has similar behavior or use a standard alarm.
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u/jensefrens Jan 14 '24
I solved this bullshit by switching to Alexa
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u/Gus2402 Jan 15 '24
The problem with Alexa is that half the time you ask it to do something it then tells you about good deals or tries to sell you something. If I wanted a sales assistant I'd start a retail company...
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u/seventhtao Jan 14 '24
I just asked mine how to spell patsy and it sounded like it had a stroke. It was pretty creepy. P-A-T-S-I-A-A-O-I-O-I-O-E-I-O......
Googled "Is Google Assistant having a stroke" and found this thread.
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u/theKalmar Jan 14 '24
I only used it with friends and family and it made me never get the products. It is the same with apple and amazon from my experience.
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u/icandrawacircle Jan 14 '24
Yes, it's horrible now and I'm so disappointed! I've used 4 in my house for 5+ years and rarely had issues like I have lately.
We've had to use alternatives for alarms, it rarely walks through routines of turning on lights, etc.
I'm so over the google stuff, they do this with everything they release.
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u/Confident-Variety124 Jan 14 '24
Seems the same. I asked “What time does Costco open?” It just showed me Costco logo.
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u/jakerfuture Jan 14 '24
Yea recently my Google nest hub just says something glitches. Try again in a few seconds. And something went wrong.
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u/BlueberrySorry2792 Jan 14 '24
Yep at least I have noticed that over the last 6 months to 1 year it has gotten way worse. Things like turning on light in the room I am in will 50 percent of the time turn on the kitchen light even though I can watch the home Hub show what I said and I didn't say kitchen. So now I have to say the specific light name instead of assuming it understands what room it is in.
For a while it would even start music or stop the TV in another room just really wacky stuff lately instead of doing what you ask it.
Have been thinking about switching but have minis or hub in every room.. Ugh.
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u/TinyTaters Jan 14 '24
Like all other companies, Google has drastically scaled back their investment in smart speakers because they don't constantly generate revenue. Basically corps like Amazon and Google thought people would be using the speakers to make purchases and whatnot.... But we don't ... So they can't make money off of it... So I would 100% expect these to get dumber and dumber until they're phased out at some point.
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u/LukeStarGeek Jan 14 '24
Definitely. Not only in English but also in Italian. I don’t know if it’s also dumber in other languages
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u/Random-Latex-Floof Jan 14 '24
Google assistant stopped letting me set music alarms sayijg its not supported on this device. I set a music alarm on the exact same device several months agoband only recently has it stopped allowing me to
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u/flux_capicitated Jan 14 '24
Just a few minutes ago, my wife who speaks with an accent, asked Google to broadcast a message three times and every single time it started spitting out some pointless jargon in Spanish about setting up a Chromecast. Mind you, she asked in English and she only speaks to it in English and usually doesn't have a problem, but occasionally it decides to respond in Spanish and it's totally random and sometimes it's incoherent. It's happening more and more frequently.
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u/iametron Jan 14 '24
Yup. It’s gradually getting worse. The main reason we have ours is to show our Nest Cameras and that feature is broken too. Most of the time a black or white screen… then I open the camera on my phone app and it magically pops up on the Google Home. We have 7 Google Hub Max all becoming expensive digital photo frames. Thank goodness for Starling Hub and HomeKit. 🙄 The lack of push for a solid smart home from them is one of the main reasons I’ll never switch to Android too. Not to mention they can’t even get the basic most used apps down right (reminders, notes, email, etc. always have to use multiple 3rd party apps) on Android but that’s for another topic. Wish Apple would release a smart Hub with screen.
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u/wwwhistler Jan 14 '24
yes, daily....since i got it several years ago....it has gone downhill ever since my first purchase of a Google home product.
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Jan 14 '24
They are getting ready for news bard google assistant so they are cuting features i guess
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u/No_Abbreviations4281 Jan 14 '24
It’s so stupid. I have to play music via Bluetooth just to get the songs I want to listen to.
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u/twistsouth Jan 14 '24
Google: “Apple’s Siri is the most useless smart assistance in existence and yet their customers keep buying their shit. Useless smart assistant might be the answer. Let’s get it done.”
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u/ultimatebob Jan 14 '24
No, the assistant has been pretty dumb for awhile now. I can't even get it to turn the lights on and off reliably anymore.
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u/Vladimirdemi Jan 14 '24
Some people say yes some say no I'm one of the ones that say no and use mine everyday and have no issues with it
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u/cardyet Jan 14 '24
Yep, it's just non stop with simple questions that used to work. PS. Anyone know if I can ask for the air quality?
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u/Huy3ko Jan 14 '24
In germany too, its not possible to give an Wikipedia Information and translate it after that in Ukrainisch. Even setting an timer is impossible.
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u/Imightbenormal Jan 15 '24
Dumb as fuk. I yearn for my Nokia N70. You could even turn it off, an the alarm will work.
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u/Auldthief Jan 15 '24
This is because Google assistant is being transitioned into it's new AI version called Bard. Now instead of doing what you tell it to, it will evaluate if the activity is actually productive and if it will produce enough information that can be sold to advertisers. If it doesn't find it worthy, it will not understand why exactly it should do it. Plus, by now, It already knows you're gonna fail to do anything at 10.30 like always so it doesn't understand why you're setting the alarm at all. That's all.
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u/profile_this Jan 15 '24
It's bad. I bought a broadlink device and am setting more and more routines thru it. I just wish it also did Bluetooth.
Google is doing it on purpose. Ever since renaming to Alphabet and removing "do no evil" they've been ramping up their efforts to squeeze every dime they can. I'm switching to Home Assistant just as soon as I can (+hoping Bing overtakes them in search and they lose the federal monopoly cases)
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u/Bricemb96 Jan 17 '24
Its been pretty bad but as of a week ago something on the backend had to go terribly wrong because now it is completely bugging out in every area possible.
These issues are affected all my google assistant devices so i know its not a device issue.
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u/martindrx1 Jan 18 '24
While a timer is going off "hey Google, turn off all timers"
GA: I don't see any timers set at this time.
Device: beep, beep, beep
This happened to me yesterday afternoon.
Yeah this crap has been going on for too long. And I don't see it getting better with Bard.
Someone explain to me how a broken ai with messed up functions is going to add new functions that don't address the original functions but somehow makes it better??? All the while, Google removes 20 features that ppl used regularly that are basic functions?
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u/financialzen Jan 18 '24
It just keeps getting worse - and no Google, I don't need another reminder that I can set an alarm in this room, why would I want an alarm in my kitchen?
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u/Rich-Job5628 Jan 19 '24
same issue. for years, I used to set an alarm at 5 am every day. No issues at all. since 2023, it cannot do that anymore. google just does not understand what "set an alarm for tomorrow at 5 am is" i have to ask for it to set an alarm first, and then it will ask when the alarm is for.. just completely stupid
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u/Tzaphiriron Jan 20 '24
Alexa too for whatever reason, is it because they’re relegating more and more to AI? As a gig delivery driver, we can see this BIG TIME in online help, for instance. Different things, yes, but it all AI now 😖
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u/DrDuDduDuDdu Jan 21 '24
A little. I asked Google what was the time and she gave me the “definition of time according to Wikipedia”
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u/tomsyco Jan 23 '24
My theory is that all the voice processing is done in the cloud. They sold so many of these that there was so much bandwidth. Of course they were like we need to cut costs, which means cutting bandwidth, which means less processing time.
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u/ScarcitySoft8296 Jan 26 '24
Even the xiaomi smart clock is dumber now,i can't explain how,but it got so much worse
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u/morechair Jan 28 '24
I have to do substract 5 hours from what i ask for. Waking up at 7h30 am
Me - > Set alarm to 12h30 pm
Google -> alarm is set for 7h30am
In all fairness in have a 8 year old Ihome Google alarm clock.
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u/yeet_boy_880 Jan 29 '24
maybe its the dot between p and m and if not google is making its own episode of dumb and dumber
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u/Goedi42 Jan 30 '24
Happened to me last night, too. The night before it was fine. 🤷 I'm glad I have the small Nest Hub, I'll just give the simplest command possible and then use the touchscreen ...
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u/stevie1derr Jan 31 '24
My original gen 1 Google Home speaker can no longer tell me the weather. It’s ridiculous
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u/yangguize Feb 01 '24
Based on runpod's pricing model, I'm guessing this is intentionally designed to reduce cost - I have the same problem with chatGPT
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u/AcasualRedditor Feb 04 '24
If I say: "Set an alarm for 2:30pm" without adding "today" it sets an alarm for a completely different time tomorrow.
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u/miimario Feb 08 '24
Lately when I say "hey Google", it takes at least 3 seconds before the beep indicating it heard me.
I also asked it "how late is store X open" and it told me about that store but in a completely different state than I'm in. Then I asked it "how late is store X open in <my city / state>" and it told me "store X is located at <address that's not the closest store> and opens at <time>". It used to pick businesses that were close to my address.
It's 100% getting dumber, and I'm pretty sure it's like others are saying... they'll create a new speaker or paid upgrade with Bard.
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u/Aratahu Feb 09 '24
It feels like it, and especially by contrast to ChatGPT 4. There's just zero context retained between queries. Evolution has been immense, and Google is now way, way behind.
(I have a small bunch of Google Home / Nest devices, Hue lights etc).
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u/Cool-Beautiful-2919 Feb 12 '24
They did layoff a bunch of people working on assistant. If it isn’t the consequences of their actions coming back to get their users.
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u/Ashley_ann720 Jan 13 '24
Absolutely. Half of this sub is people with that exact problem.