At this point it is official that Google Assistant has two information programs left, and that it is already replaced by Gemini, the artificial intelligence alternative to ChatGPT; However, the change is not entirely complete and Assistant is still used in many Google products such as Android Auto, and in fact some users prefer it.
This may seem surprising, given that Gemini is a far superior voice assistant to Google Assistant; In the few months it’s been on our phones, it’s proven to be able to answer our questions much better, and upcoming updates will allow us to have conversations with AI and create images.
But there is one thing where Google Assistant is even better than Gemini: its integration with Android and applications; That’s why Android Auto still uses it, for example. The good news is that Google solves this problem with so-called extensions; When we enable them, we give Gemini permission to connect to the app and obtain data that can help us. Gemini already has extensions for Gmail and Google Maps and will soon be able to connect to other Google apps.
But the best part is, as he discovered Android Authority, Gemini will also be able to connect to non-Google apps
For example, Gemini will be able to send WhatsApp messages to our contacts, simply by asking them; In this case, Gemini’s text generation functions should be particularly useful, since they will allow us to create messages with different tones and personality, depending on the person we want to talk to. Gemini is already able to write messages with a casual or serious tone, and this can be applied when we ask him to send a message on WhatsApp; The experience should be similar with Google Messages.
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In the same way, the extension to connect Gemini to Spotify works in a similar way to the already existing one, the YouTube Music extension. Therefore, we can ask Gemini to play a song, and AI will use Spotify to display a player and a thumbnail of the album cover; If we click here, the Spotify application will open with the song.
