The Google Assistant Android app is now Gemini by default
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Google is now changing Assistant to Gemini by default when you download the Assistant app from the Play Store or update it.

This means:

  • Downloading or updating the Assistant app now gives you Gemini instead.
  • You can switch back to Assistant in the Gemini app settings.
  • This might be Google’s first step towards replacing Assistant completely with Gemini.
  • Some users are unaware of the switch and see two Gemini apps on their phones.

Overall, this may suggest Google is phasing out Assistant and transitioning users to the newer Gemini AI technology.

  • le_saucisson_masquayEnglish
    195·
    9 months ago

    Make yourself a favor, delete this crap and instead use a real open source (means apache2) AI that performs even better than chatgpt4 or Google ai. Get Mistral 7B.

    • brbpostingEnglish
      19·
      9 months ago

      Good recommendation.

      Probably won’t hit quite GPT-4 levels of performance but still good.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Great for asking questions I’m sure. Useless for setting my alarms and reminders and placing calls or sending texts, I bet.

      • GroundedGator@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Gemini doesn’t work like Google assistant.

        It doesn’t seem to be able to actually take actions.

        Things I used to do with assistant that do not work with Gemini

        • play something
        • Play “song title”
        • Play artist

        I don’t know about other things like seeing timers or running routines, I shut off Gemini as soon as I realized it couldn’t handle my most used requests.

        • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          well it IS able to call to assistant (this is the only way to interaft with the phone atm) but it seems like it reverse-hallucinates sometimes and forgets that assistant CAN in fact do these things

        • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I know gemini does not. But what I gathered was to replace assistant with Mistral. Unless I misunderstood the comment.

          • le_saucisson_masquayEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            No i meant instead of Google ai there are better and open source alternative. It’s rare enough to have open source alternative better than a product companies invested hundreds of millions in.

            • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              Well yes but the original comment states to uninstall the google stuff and get yourself open source ai. With the post itself being about assistant getting replaced I think it’s not an unreasonable assumption.