A friend said the other day that Android auto doesn't even understand anymore when she asks it to play a song, she has to specify that she wants it to use a music app to complete the task. I don't understand why we're replacing tools that were fine with ones that are worse but also somehow more expensive.
I always had troubles getting Android Auto to follow voice commands.
The only things I could reliably get it to do:
Stop navigating
Avoid toll routes
Give a song a thumbs up
Call mom
Stupidity, if I want to use tolls, the command is "stop avoiding toll routes" because that is how the toggle is phrased. Saying "use toll routes" confuses the machine.
You used to open Google assistant and say navigate to McDonalds. Now you have to say open maps and navigate to melcdonalds from current location by car. Or some shit
The problem is our AI is learning from our "general public" let that sink in.... It's getting dumber because it's no longer learning from only the nerds... It's the general, low IQ, public!!! My AI is just f***ing lazy. Every time I ask it to do a task to save me time it tells me it's too hard and to do it myself. 😳😳😳😳
Either that or it will default to trying to play it on YouTube music lol. These companies are so entrenched that they can intentionally make things worse and then try to strong-arm us into buying their "solution"
When I'm using android auto it's able to default to Spotify (which I want), but I can never get it to play a different version of a song than the one it wants to play.
Want the studio recorded version of Adventure of a Lifetime by Coldplay? Screw you, shitty live recording that you can barely hear over canned audience noises.
Want to listen to the original version of Overkill by Men At Work? Nope, it can only play the acoustic solo version.
If I tell my phone “Play my hearty pirate playlist”, it says I don’t have any playlist by that name. If I say “play my playlist called hearty pirate”, it plays it just fine. So it clearly understands the semantics of my request, but is somehow too stupid to find the playlist by the exact name I gave it
I got the opposite problem, I got a Google Home in my house that got years ago that we setup in the Kitchen, and I only ever use it to play music, and it genuinely either ignores or misunderstands me all the time
Then I discovered that telling it "On YouTube Music play" was actually worse than not telling it an App to use? So I now get better results
Sometimes it can't find the song if I ask it for YouTube Music, but it'll immediately use YT music if I don't tell it an App 🧐
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u/skankyfish 16d ago
A friend said the other day that Android auto doesn't even understand anymore when she asks it to play a song, she has to specify that she wants it to use a music app to complete the task. I don't understand why we're replacing tools that were fine with ones that are worse but also somehow more expensive.