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by smoldesu 999 days ago
> Which evil force is making them so bad?

First-party liability, probably. I doubt Apple or Google are interested in shipping an "assistant" that can't reliably distinguish fiction from fact.

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To be fair, I'm not saying it should hold all the knowledge in the world. I just expect it to give me short answers to pretty simple questions.

For example: "Hey Google, what are the biggest cities in Australia?" could be answer by "Hey Dave, the biggest cities in Australia are Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane" OR "I don't know this information and can't search the web for it"... but it just answers "I did not understand" over and over for anything.

It seems to only understand (sometimes): "play X on spotify", "directions to X", "restaurants" ... anything in slightly more complex natural language is a no go.