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Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households: Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent that connected to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive… (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Why the downvotes? It is a legit tech article, even if it's about tech nobody asked for.

My wife and I manage a lot of coordination just by sharing our Google calendars. And, in fact, she was a whiz at using the Google Assistant to do all sorts of cool stuff. But, this was Google Assistant before it got infected with all the newest AI. Google's (Generative) AI actually made it all dumber.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Likely because not downvoting it could serve to Inadvertently legitimize the technology when others see it with a positive score, and most people on Lemmy don’t want to do that.

    Google ruined fucking Google maps, a product that did not need improving, with AI. It now hallucinates the location of addresses and will send you to a completely unrelated part of the city. This began happening to me multiple times a week.

    I drive for work, so that was unacceptable to me, and I deleted Google Maps and reverted to Apple Maps about a month ago. Guess how many times Apple Maps has taken me to the wrong location in the one month I’ve spent using it? Fucking zero.

    Google can suck shit, they’re not a serious company anymore.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Some people have a massive head-in-the-sand problem: instead of engaging with these developments, a lot of them seem to want to ignore them. As well as climate change deniers, there are now AI deniers too. 🙈

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