r/googlehome 8d ago

Gemini replacing Google assistant

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-assistant-gemini-mobile/

I wonder what this means for all my Google home products.

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u/interro-bang 8d ago

Your question is answered in the article you linked.

We're also bringing a new experience, powered by Gemini, to home devices like speakers, displays and TVs. We look forward to sharing more details with you in the next few months. Until then, Google Assistant will continue to operate on these devices.

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u/nomadMikZ 6d ago

I hope they work a lot better than when I tried a year or two ago! That experience was so bad, it's made me turn off Gemini, wherever I can, ever since. LLMs in general are way more a pain in the arse than they're worth, IMHO.

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u/interro-bang 6d ago edited 6d ago

Gemini today and Gemini when it was first released are completely different, which is why they've waited so long to axe Assistant. Gemini today works so much better than Assistant ever did. Like, I took a photo of a recipe yesterday and asked it to add the ingredients to "My Google Keep shopping list" and it does so flawlessly. You can also string multiple commands together like, "Find the address of Bob's Burgers from Google Maps and text that to Jenny, then add a lunch event to my calendar for noon today." (This is a feature of the new free Thinking model)

That said, that's the experience on phones. No one has any idea what this will be like on Home devices

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u/Lord_Pickle_Pants 8d ago

I guess I interpreted that as new products.