Replacing a functional voice assistant with one that talks more and gets basic facts wrong is a regression with a product roadmap name. Google pulled out something people relied on while driving and dropped in a showpiece that serves a demo, not the driver. Has anyone found a setting to cut the verbosity, or is this the Gemini experience by design?

I want an open source alternative to Android Auto. I have no idea where to even start with that, much less have any coding experience, otherwise I'd absolutely try to make my own.

Welcome to everyone's world who has a Google Home device... yanked functionality, stupider responses than when it first shipped. Sigh.

All those tokens just wasted on fluff.

They’re all wasted, does it matter if it’s “fluff” or not?

Isn't that basically all the voice assistants? I thought Siri and Alexa were going the same direction.

There's not much choice. So much investment is being poured into AI that companies have to join the bandwagon to "compete".

I hope some of these companies are prepared for a potential burst of the bubble.