Remember when Google made their assistant worse and we all predicted they were planning on bringing the same features back but using AI bullshit? - eviltoast

Yeah. They did exactly that

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Location-aware reminders is almost literally all I want from an assistant these days. “Remind me of x next time I’m at y, or by z time at the latest.” Is this an impossible task? I can imagine how I would code it, but maybe I’m missing something.

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      9 months ago

      I think they just haven’t figured out how to monetize it, really. I agree that it’s totally codable. I could do it with tasker if it were my job, IE, I was paid to and had 8h a day to do it.

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        9 months ago

        Where’s the monetization in alarms, though? Or time-based reminders? Surely those are no more lucrative than what I’m asking for, yet they’ve existed for years.

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          9 months ago

          Fair point. Maybe they use the data for research?

          Without alarms and timers, they don’t sell the phone, probably.