Changes we’re making to Google Assistant
blog.google
Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.
  • LvxferreEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s hard for Google to claim that they’re focusing resources (e.g. dev time), given the list of features being removed. As one of the HN comments said, quite a few of them “seem to fall under the umbrella of “features that actually make the assistant an assistant”/connecting the assistant to other apps”. In other words, integration - that’s core functionality for an assistant and they likely know it.

    • stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I would define the core capability as “takes audio, extracts meaning, matches to intent, executes intent”. Everything else is an implementation of a specific intent/action. Some of them are likely fragile and depend on integration APIs that may be changing or going away.

      Ultimately, yes, it is corporate-speak to sugarcoat what looks like a net negative for users at the current time with nebulous claims of a better future.

    • _wizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Let’s not forget they terminated A LOT of the Assistant developers within the last week.