Meanwhile i just tried to have Gemini AI on my Android read the screen to add an event to my calendar: it can't do it. It could, some year ago, which several articles wrote about. It no longer can.

God this is so annoying. The actual functionality we need is not there or is half-assed.

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danudey an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Someone on HN a few months ago said that they gave up and decided to try Copilot in Outlook, which Outlook kept nagging him to do. He tried the example prompt that the nag screen gave him, whatever it was, and Copilot said 'sorry, I don't have that functionality' or something.

Not only the actual functionality people want is missing, but the functionality they're nagging us to use is missing./

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rjh29 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's the new assistant on my phone but it can't even set a timer or alarm when I ask it to. Gave up using it after that.

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mrandish 25 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yes, the first thing I asked an "AI Phone Assistant" to do was set an alarm. It didn't even try and fail, it rejected the request entirely.

	▲	cromka 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Same here! It's even worse than Siri was!

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valicord an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This worked for me just a few weeks ago

	▲	cromka 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Try now. I tried several times with different types of content/apps displayed, to no avail. It analyzes the screen and tells me whatever Gemini would say, instead of actually doing it.

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rtkwe an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Plus the random decision to split Google Assistant functions off from the bottom search bar. I still randomly try to tap that bar with it's mic button to ask the assistant to do something only to have it try to do a Google search. That's leaving aside all the random things that worked rather well in assistant until they started trying to push Gemini, can't think of a reason that should correlate (/s).

	▲	cromka 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think this is precisely what made it not work anymore.