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Google is winning on every AI front

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993 points vinhnx | 1 comments | 12 Apr 25 03:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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remoquete ◴[12 Apr 25 06:01 UTC] No.43661748[source]▶
I was a loyal Claude user until I decided to try Gemini 2.5. "After all", I thought, "I already use a Pixel phone, so it's integrated with Android. And with Google Drive. And I can get it through my Google One subscription."

And now that I'm on it, I don't think I'm going back. Google did it again.

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firecall ◴[12 Apr 25 06:11 UTC] No.43661798[source]▶
Just to add, I am mainly an iPhone user. But I have a Google Pixel 6a for dev and testing reasons.

And Google Gemini for the voice assistant is excellent fun!

Just being able to ask it weird and wonderful whilst on a road trip with the kids is worth the cost of a cheap Pixel phone alone!

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jofzar ◴[12 Apr 25 07:01 UTC] No.43662030[source]▶
I have to seriously disagree on it for the "assistant" part. It is so terrible vs Google assistant.

There have been two really bad experiences that I had which boggled my mind.

These are transcribed because these were so bad I took a screenshot.

Example 1: "set an alarm for 15 minutes"

> Gemini sets the alarm for 1:15pm

"I want that to be 50 minutes"

> "you can change the duration of alarms in the clock app"

Example 2:

"what the temperature today"

> It is currently 5 degrees Celsius

- It was October in Sydney, the temperature was 22c with a low of 12c.....

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arcanemachiner ◴[12 Apr 25 10:01 UTC] No.43662999[source]▶
Try setting a "timer" for 15 minutes instead of an "alarm".

Not sure if this is a regional dialect thing, but in North America, a timer has a duration, but an alarm is set for a specific time, which would possibly explain the confusion.

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1. wccrawford ◴[12 Apr 25 12:45 UTC] No.43663888[source]▶
While I agree it'd let the user use the system, the system should do the right thing for either situation, or at least abort and say it doesn't understand. That's the problem with LLMs so far. They can't admit they don't understand.