Google Assistant Updates

[Sushubh]

Google Assistant to get an AI makeover

 

[Sushubh]

Changes we’re making to Google Assistant - Google Assistant Help

Over the years, we’ve made it even easier to accomplish your tasks with Assistant — thanks, in large part, to your feedback. And in order to keep improving your experience, we’re making a few changes

support.google.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

we’re making a few changes to focus on quality and reliability, ultimately making it easier to use Assistant across devices.

Does Sundar Pichai hate his own company? There are a lot of features they are deprecating for no reason. I mean WTF they are taking away the ability to send an email using Google Assistant?

 

[Nishant]

Existing features are broken too. E.g. I had made an Assistant routine that used to play a particular playlist I made on YT Music when I say specific keywords. It now plays a random public playlist instead.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Google layoffs reach Assistant, core engineering, and other teams

We’re not even two weeks into 2024, and Google has initiated a wave of layoffs across multiple teams throughout the...

9to5google.com

This is why. Can't exactly write we are removing features because we fired few hundred employees to buy myself a new island.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Why does "cancel all timers" delete all the alarms on my phone?

Sometimes I'll say "hey Google cancel all timers" to stop kitchen timers on my home hub. But then it hits my pixel 6 and actually deletes all my...

old.reddit.com

Source

Google assistant thinks that turning off an alarm means deleting it. I just tested it and it worked.

 

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