Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

How does release of LLM API relate to assistant?

Pixels replaced Assistent w/ Gemini a while back and it was horrendous; would answer questions but not perform the basic tasks you actually used Assistant for (setting timer, navigating, home control, etc).

Seems like they're approaching parity (finally) months and months later (alarms/tv control work at least now), but losing basic oft-used functionality is a serious fumble.

It's not just pixels. That feature rolled out to billions of android phones.

I feel as though some of the rigour of systems engineering is missing from AI model development/integration. Not a negative per-se, as velocity is incredibly important: But it seems a lot of lessons have to be learned again.

I sometimes forget - it is still very early days relatively speaking.

As a user of Gemini 2.0, so far I have been very impressed for the most part.

Thanks, didn't know, never really used these voice assistants.

It's a weird choice, I suppose the endless handcrafted rules and tools don't scale across languages and usecases but then LLM are not good at reliability. And what's the point of using assistant that will not do the task reliably, if you have to double-check you are better of not using it...

The issue wasn't inconsistency it was "had no home integration at all" at launch. They rushed to roll out the 'new' assistant and didn't bother waiting for the basic feature set first.

Today; it works ~perfectly for TV control/Alarm setting - I can't think of it not working first try in the last month or so for me. Maybe more consistent than prior?

The rollout was simply borked from the PM/Decision making side.