At this point, my only reaction to my Google Nest Hub or Audio speakers not understanding what I asked for is to shrug. It’s a common enough occurrence that my husband and I no longer get angry or disappointed about it; we just try again, and maybe that’ll work, maybe it won’t, and if not, we just pull up our phones and do the thing that Google’s almight assistant was supposed to help us do.
And we’re not the only ones. Hundreds of users are still complaining about Gemini, or Assistant, or both on Reddit. Commands that don’t work, routines that refuse to execute, mishearing, mis-executing, black-box troubleshooting when something fails, and on top of it all, a Gemini AI that is as good as throwing a ball at a stray dog and hoping they understand the concept of catch without ever being trained to.