Google Is Now Rolling Out Gemini Live For All Android Users 16
Gemini Live is rolling out its Live Voice Mode for all Android users, allowing them to hold real-time, interactive voice conversations with Gemini. "Previously locked into conventional text-based input and responses, Gemini Live Voice Mode gives hands-free ways to explore ideas, brainstorm, and talk through topics in real-time," reports Tom's Guide. From the report: This new voice feature is integrated into the Android Gemini app, so users need to update their app or download it from the Google Play Store if they haven't already done so. Once installed, users can turn on Live Voice Mode and start talking directly to Gemini. Do you want to get your thoughts sorted out or chat? It's fast and interactive, and no typing is required in this mode.
Users can have voice conversations on virtually anything. Suppose one is stuck with a complex project and needs a fresh perspective or researching a new hobby or course of study and wants to flesh out the subject by talking it out with Gemini. It promises to offer rich insight and ideas through conversation so that one's productivity and creativity are enhanced in ways that, up until now, have been possible only with human dialogue. [...]
The main advantage of Gemini Live Voice Mode is that it is interactive. A voice assistant would respond to a question you pose in voice, while with the live voice mode in Gemini, the dialogue sounds and feels more natural, with a tone that takes on that of the discussion and facilitates a back-and-forth interaction style. You can ask follow-up questions, clarify misunderstandings, or refine your ideas as you speak, making it more like a collaboration than a simple Q&A.
Users can have voice conversations on virtually anything. Suppose one is stuck with a complex project and needs a fresh perspective or researching a new hobby or course of study and wants to flesh out the subject by talking it out with Gemini. It promises to offer rich insight and ideas through conversation so that one's productivity and creativity are enhanced in ways that, up until now, have been possible only with human dialogue. [...]
The main advantage of Gemini Live Voice Mode is that it is interactive. A voice assistant would respond to a question you pose in voice, while with the live voice mode in Gemini, the dialogue sounds and feels more natural, with a tone that takes on that of the discussion and facilitates a back-and-forth interaction style. You can ask follow-up questions, clarify misunderstandings, or refine your ideas as you speak, making it more like a collaboration than a simple Q&A.
Place your bets (Score:3)
Angry users or not angry users after this update?
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI (Score:2)
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"Lastly, generated content lacks any potential for human relationships."
That would imply most AI users perhaps not angry for now but ultimately unsatisfied as their human connections ultimately unravel. Angry then?
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Gemini is dumb as dogshit and a liar.
Ask it something it will give false information and when corrected tell you are wrong. If you swear at it it will fact check and correct itself.
But only until the next time when it will spew out the same false information as before.
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Most people I run into are either on or off the LLM train.
The ones on the train seem all-in and want it all.
Audio bug? (Score:4, Interesting)
Is all the processing done on the phone? Even if so, how much of the audio, if any is sent to Google's servers? Is it saved? Is it accessable to law enforcement?
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Assume it is all accessible by the police and act accordingly.
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Even if it was though, which would be illegal in many jurisdictions, it's only active when you are going through menus or waiting on hold. So all it would record are pre-recorded messages and your option choices.
Recording your actual conversations would be highly illegal in many places. I doubt Google is so brazen or stupid as to commit millions of criminal offenses every day, and the feature has been on Pixel phones for years so if it was being handed to law enforcement or used internally by Google we woul
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Asking all the question that are irrelevant given whatever functionality this is replacing has been on the phones for a decade already. No really, every phone has had a digital assistant for at least that long.
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free tier AI stuff is used as training data to train the paid models
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On the Pixel everything is done on-device, nothing sent to Google. I can't say about other phones, but I would imagine it is similar because a) wiretapping laws and b) Google doesn't want to run servers when they can have your device do it.
It's really useful when you are on hold, I use it a lot. Also handy with those stupid option menus.
All Android Users. (Score:2)
But a chat bot, how unique, and I am sure it is never wrong or manipulated and your interactions are totally private and not logged for sale.
-Sorry my lawn isn't growing and my tin foil hat itches.
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Thank god.
nice ... too bad it can't do anything. (Score:5, Informative)
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It's one of those things that are *almost* useful. The natural language capabilities of the platform make it really easy to get answers to questions. The problem is that the platform's tendency to hallucinate means that those answers are often extremely wrong, although they *look* credible, which is so much worse than obviously wrong output.
I use it kind of like wikipedia. I'll ask it to argue for and against something I don't know about, and the response shows me things to research that I wouldn't have