The Gemini app is getting the ability to generate Audio Overview podcasts, with Android and iOS users beginning to see this capability.
I used to hate how holding the power button would open bixby, I am absolutely loving how it opens google gemini. The chat can be eh at times, but I bet they will come out on top.
While I don’t hate it as much as I’ve disliked some of the smaller assistants in the past, it’s still not as useful as basic assistant was in say 2017 before they killed the shopping list in favor of the grocery delivery app they ran for 6 months, or killed a number of integrations over the years.
While the Google Home scripting interface is great, there are no variables or saved states so you can’t do interesting Home Assistant level stuff with them.
Gemini still hallucinates so much I can’t call it reliable.
I have to listen to any of the LLM assistants with the same skepticism I use when watching a White House press conference cause a huge amount of what they say is just bullshit.
To be fair I’m speaking from a very general use case where what I search is practically a Google question anyways. I’ve yet to figure out too much of the integration aspects, and truthfully it doesn’t give me the response layout I prefer from claude, I’m just saying I like the new integration to do so. It’s helpful.