Where I am forced to encounter advanced LLMs is every company rolled out replacements for my “dumb” assistants. Like Alexa on an echo dot or Gemini on Android auto.
What I ask them to do does not take significant processing power. I need you to set a 5min timer. Not talk to me like you’re alive. Don’t overthink things, just do simple things.
All that extra banter they added in eats up processing power. So now it’s slower and works like shit because it’s formulating some complex response to my request to beep in 5 minutes. Just set the timer, my hands are covered in raw chicken juice.
You can disable Android auto’s Gemini by setting the digital assistant on your android phone to “none” under default apps.
If you use these things more generally that might hurt you more than help, but it got rid of the bloviating idiot in the way of the old useful voice that gave me directions.
Thanks I’ll have to dig deeper. I figured out dumbing down Alexa but haven’t dug into Gemini yet.
I just wish their was an alternative besides Apple and Google for car things. Sooner or later the choice of having it disabled is going to quietly go away.
Where I am forced to encounter advanced LLMs is every company rolled out replacements for my “dumb” assistants. Like Alexa on an echo dot or Gemini on Android auto.
What I ask them to do does not take significant processing power. I need you to set a 5min timer. Not talk to me like you’re alive. Don’t overthink things, just do simple things.
All that extra banter they added in eats up processing power. So now it’s slower and works like shit because it’s formulating some complex response to my request to beep in 5 minutes. Just set the timer, my hands are covered in raw chicken juice.
You can disable Android auto’s Gemini by setting the digital assistant on your android phone to “none” under default apps.
If you use these things more generally that might hurt you more than help, but it got rid of the bloviating idiot in the way of the old useful voice that gave me directions.
Thanks I’ll have to dig deeper. I figured out dumbing down Alexa but haven’t dug into Gemini yet.
I just wish their was an alternative besides Apple and Google for car things. Sooner or later the choice of having it disabled is going to quietly go away.