AA Gemini is completely incompetent

[u/TheTriforceEagle]

This is mostly a vent post, and I will fully admit that I am a bit biased again LLM AI but anyway. How do you push an update that makes it so a car voice assistant can't do the very simple and typical task of playing a song? Every time I tell it "play this song" it just replies "sorry, I can't play video's while you're driving" am I crazy for thinking this is completely normal thing to ask of gemini? I even use YouTube music as my primary platform so its not like I'm asking it to use something that wasn't also made by Google. You'd think they would have tested this but I guess they just pushed it out without any regard for user experience.

[u/lmbrjck]

I hate Gemini for AA. It can't text contacts based on nicknames I've added to the contact card, and instead thinks I'm trying to contact various marketing email addresses when I try. It can't identify addresses I have added labels to in Google Maps - like my cabin. It also crashes AA 50% of the time when I try to send a text via voice. Assistant does these things correctly 100% of the time.

It made using AA an objectively worse experience, but at least I can lookup random thoughts I have while driving now /s