Technology @lemmy.world Squire1039 @lemm.ee 9 mo. ago

Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default

www.androidauthority.com The Google Assistant Android app is now Gemini by default

Google is now changing Assistant to Gemini by default when you download the Assistant app from the Play Store or update it.

This means:

Downloading or updating the Assistant app now gives you Gemini instead.
You can switch back to Assistant in the Gemini app settings.
This might be Google's first step towards replacing Assistant completely with Gemini.
Some users are unaware of the switch and see two Gemini apps on their phones.

Overall, this may suggest Google is phasing out Assistant and transitioning users to the newer Gemini AI technology.

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Open developer options on the phone and turn ADB to ON.

Connect the PC to the phone with a cable.

Open terminal.

Run "adb uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.googleassistant".

Enjoy your private life.
Do people use Assistant for more than just reminders, weather, and directions? Lol Just curious because that's all I use it for.
yay, more nonsense added to stock android (degoogle now)
I knew they were going to end up going full gemini, but this seems too soon to pull such shenanigans, considering it's still slow to respond, can't do several things that assistantcan do, and is 100% useless when not on data.
I'm developing a completely different application called Gemini, for work. This will cause confusion
And it still won't be as useful as Google Now
Is this gonna be one of those tech bandwagon things that Google fails at so consistently? You know, like Google phones, Google Plus, Google Pay, Google Stadia, Google Your Poodle, etc.
Your device is not your device. Google's device, google's rules!
Make yourself a favor, delete this crap and instead use a real open source (means apache2) AI that performs even better than chatgpt4 or Google ai. Get Mistral 7B.
It's default? When I downloaded it, I had to manually choose Gemini to be the default. It wasn't set like that for me.
Haha, Google. I already type my dumb questions at DuckDuckGo

Srsly... Gemini is pretty cool tho. When I want an AI at least. (Rarely)
What if I don't use Assistant? Does it still have access to other parts of my phone?
I'm confused. There is no assistant app as far as I can tell. It seems to just be part of the OS.

I don't see a Gemini app either though.
it's not as if the default assistant was actually good. can't make it any worse, at least
I was initially like "oh neat new AI stuff." Turns out it's dumber than the previous assistant. When I ask it to interact with my Google Keep shopping list it "can't do that yet." Same when I asked it to interact with my smart lights. The only two things I used Google Assistant for it can't even do yet.
The AI part runs in the cloud or on the phone?
What is Gemini by default ?
Can you set reminders/timers with it?
I loved being able to open up Assistant to quickly summarize an article for me, but Gemini requires me to also attach the URL to its context and then type/say "Summarize" and then hit the submit button only to wait longer for the summary.

The only pro I can think about is that I can continue to ask for details about or related to the article.
The amount of hue shift in that phone display in the photo is hilarious.
Siri

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