staff@slashgear.com (Adnan Ahmed)
2024-05-06 08:15:34
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Surprisingly, the recently launched Google Gemini app hasn’t been gaining much traction, given the excitement around digital assistants like Google Assistant and Siri a decade ago. Once installed on your phone, the app utilizes Google’s best AI model yet, Gemini, and replaces the Google Assistant.
There are many ways Google Gemini can be useful on a daily basis — be it to summarize an email, or find the cheapest flights for your upcoming vacation. If you subscribe to Gemini Advanced, the app will switch to a more powerful version of the AI model. Otherwise, the standard Gemini app is free to use and will attempt to perform just about any task you throw at it. You can use it to generate images, find directions, or attach images you’ve captured and use them for a specific prompt.
Despite its many wonders, the app is still very much in its experimental stage and reportedly struggles to perform key tasks such as media control. Other limitations and hallucinations documented across cutting-edge artificially intelligent services prove that AI isn’t ready to replace your smart assistant, at least not yet. Still, the Gemini app is as exciting as it is revolutionary and could supercharge future versions of Android.