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Google Gemini Can Now Use Your Search History to Provide Personalized Responses
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I was wearing my Apple Watch and headphones that were connected to my MacBook in another part of the house. I asked Siri to set a timer. Instead of being able to discern this circumstance, it started a timer on the Mac. When time elapsed, I was unable to get Siri to stop the alarm from sounding in my headphones.
(The angry reaction I did to your reply is one of solidarity)
I love how the fanboyism in here acts like Apple isn’t also guilty of this type of stuff.
The AI craze of late is targeting the simpleminded folks that don't understand the *many* facets of AI. Task-based interactions, such as reminders, are examples of "supervised/trained" responses. What has been overshadowing this form of machine learning has been "generated" responses, which is basically "unsupervised" interaction... an entirely separate subset of AI capabilities, and Siri doesn't support this directly, but does by enabling 3rd-party extensions, such as ChatGPT.
What is getting tiring about this whole AI craze are the folks that complain about things they don't understand. 🤣
Siri has been fantastic for me, too, for pre-trained tasks, and many, many question-answer queries. She's not as dumb as some people describe her as. I highly suspect that the problems people often have is due to their own loosey-goosey speaking. Pre-trained systems need clear, concise, predictable queries in order to give the proper response. That's how Siri has always behaved.
Where's the proof? Bring it and then we can talk. 🤗
My 16 pros Siri barely copes with setting a timer. I have a smart bulb set up in the home app. 90%ofnthenti of the time I asked for it to be switched on it tells me I need to download an app. I then have to go to home app to switch it on.
"Google's Gemini AI product is now able to absorb a user's search history"...
Stop it right there. NO.
Stop it right there. NO.
Apple uses differential privacy that anonymizes and aggregates the data. They serve ads based on a group instead of individual data points.
Yes!
You can always do things yourself without the AI just as you did till a couple years ago. But once you handover your data there’s no getting it back. You should educate yourself on how the big companies abuse your data and the implications of it.
I wouldn’t give a second’s thought if it comes to privacy.
"Hey Google, what is today's weather?"
"The weather outside is hot, but not as hot as Lydia from OnlyFans."
"The weather outside is hot, but not as hot as Lydia from OnlyFans."
Absolutely, yes.
I am a writer. For my second book, in 2019, I was researching heroin withdrawals. I ended up with ads for a clothing brand R3HAB. But now imagine Gemini ‘absorbing’ that…
"Hey Gemini, what's the best smoky whisky?"
"Heroin users like you should stay away from alcohol. Let me recommend you a few rehabs in your area of Manchester, UK" [I use a VPN]
DuckDuckGo FTW. (Please don’t be evil.)
Hey Gemini…
You must be new to the board. You are never allowed to say anything about Siri except it is terrible. Even though for alot of us it does exactly what we want 80-90% of the time on this board you must hold board policy. SIRI IS THE WORST!
That, and one won't have to be bothered by the AI giving you stuff outside one's own epistemic bubble.
Strawman, accusation, and trolling all in one sentence. But, maybe if you asked Gemini it could do it in fewer words for you.
I'm betting they learned a bit from this one. But you never know, anyone can win or lose a bet.
Agreed.
Had this the other week with Siri: asked to set an alarm, which it normally doesn’t struggle with.
Has seemingly been a “one off” thus far but it turned around and asked me if I wanted to use ChatGPT to answer that.
In terms of Apple Watch and HomePod, have you ever got this to work properly? I can count on one hand how many times it’s actually done this!
See music and podcast suggestions when near your HomePod
When you’re near a HomePod and nothing is playing on it or on your Apple Watch, suggestions from the Music and Podcast apps appear in a widget at the top of the Smart Stack. To display those suggestions, turn the Digital Crown to scroll up. Tap a suggestion to play it on HomePod.Note: Music and podcast suggestions are available on Apple Watch and HomePod models with Ultra Wideband.
I think you all don't know this is how Google's been working for that last two decades; personalizing search results based on you search history. The only difference is now you can hook it up to a language model if you like. Zero deal 🤷🏽♂️
I will agree that something has changed with multiple Siri's in the same area and the wrong one responding, but I am one of those people that uses Siri daily with little to no issue.
No, just no. First I don’t use Google because I already don’t want them building a dossier on me. Using the data I don’t want them to have in the first place to give me what it THINKS I want instead of what I asked for is a hard no.
Secondly, I’m a writer. I’m continually Googling random s***. I mean seriously random weird off the wall non-sequitur stuff. Any patterns it would try to derive from that would border on the schizoid.
Secondly, I’m a writer. I’m continually Googling random s***. I mean seriously random weird off the wall non-sequitur stuff. Any patterns it would try to derive from that would border on the schizoid.