This irks me so much. The Google assistant worked, was simple, and only relayed what was needed. This was peak “AI” or whatever you want to call it.
They forced gemini by default and it’s constantly saying it doesn’t have permission, it doesn’t know how to do this yet, and goes on for a paragraph or two for the simplest query.
Literally what it was doing to me a couple of hours ago.
I wanted a sample QR code image to toss into a mock-up, and the first thing that popped up was the “AI answer” telling me about different places I could get a QR code, and I’m like bro, I’m already on a search engine, there’s an ‘images’ tab right there, which contains what I’m looking for.
This irks me so much. The Google assistant worked, was simple, and only relayed what was needed. This was peak “AI” or whatever you want to call it.
They forced gemini by default and it’s constantly saying it doesn’t have permission, it doesn’t know how to do this yet, and goes on for a paragraph or two for the simplest query.
“Set timer for 5 minutes.”
writes you a poorly informed thesis on timers
Literally what it was doing to me a couple of hours ago.
I wanted a sample QR code image to toss into a mock-up, and the first thing that popped up was the “AI answer” telling me about different places I could get a QR code, and I’m like bro, I’m already on a search engine, there’s an ‘images’ tab right there, which contains what I’m looking for.