• dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    Why the downvotes? It is a legit tech article, even if it’s about tech nobody asked for.

    My wife and I manage a lot of coordination just by sharing our Google calendars. And, in fact, she was a whiz at using the Google Assistant to do all sorts of cool stuff. But, this was Google Assistant before it got infected with all the newest AI. Google’s (Generative) AI actually made it all dumber.

    • eicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16 hours

      Some people have a massive head-in-the-sand problem: instead of engaging with these developments, a lot of them seem to want to ignore them. As well as climate change deniers, there are now AI deniers too. 🙈

    • Malica@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18 hours

      Everyone should cut off Google, myself included

    • h0tbeef@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18 hours

      Likely because not downvoting it could serve to Inadvertently legitimize the technology when others see it with a positive score, and most people on Lemmy don’t want to do that.

      Google ruined fucking Google maps, a product that did not need improving, with AI. It now hallucinates the location of addresses and will send you to a completely unrelated part of the city. This began happening to me multiple times a week.

      I drive for work, so that was unacceptable to me, and I deleted Google Maps and reverted to Apple Maps about a month ago. Guess how many times Apple Maps has taken me to the wrong location in the one month I’ve spent using it? Fucking zero.

      Google can suck shit, they’re not a serious company anymore.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    This is what those delusional shit bags think they’re making:

  • eicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24 hours

    Google finally found the killer AI use case: becoming the unpaid third parent. CC reads the school emails, tracks appointments, fills permission slips, plans meals and updates the family calendar. Convenient, absolutely. Also a fascinating amount of family life to hand one company. The real household chore may be managing the permissions.