The cat jumped up on my bed. Wait a minute. I don’t have a cat.
An Alert about a Feline Skipping the Event is my Google Home thing that I sent when I left the party. Turns out it was my dog. The announcement came a day after the company’s Gemini turned on the Home feature in the Google Home app. It brings the power of large language models to the smart Home Ecosystem, and one of the most useful features is the highly descriptive alerts from Nest security cameras. So, instead of a ‘seeing person,’ it would tell me that FedEx came and dropped off two packages.
In the two weeks I’ve let Gemini power my Google Home, I’ve been impressed with its ability to find drivers for delivery. At the end of the day, I can ask the Google Home app, “How many packages arrived today” and get an accurate answer. It’s good to know it’s FedEx at the door, with my nest in the nest, not a dealer offering to replace my windows. But of all the smart people, Gemini refuses to understand that I don’t have a cat in my house.
A person who has seen
Photo-editing –Google Home by Julian Chokkattu
Google isn’t the only company approaching its smart-home ecosystem with AI. Amazon recently announced a feature on its ring cameras called the search team that will use the number of external ring cameras to help someone find their lost dog. (I don’t need to stretch some thinking like this to be used for bad purposes.)
At the beginning of October, Google renewed the voice assistant on its smart home devices – some of which have been around for ten years – by replacing Google with each GOOGINI assistant. For the most part, the assistant Is It’s better. It can understand a simple spoken word command or two, and you can easily ask it to do something around your home without messing with the Google app tab. And when I ask it a simple question, it usually gives me some kind of honest answer without punishing me on the Google search page.
Smart camera notifications really help at a glance. Most of the time, I put someone off to see the notifications because they are usually people walking by my house. Now the warnings actually say “someone is leaving,” which gives me a lot of confidence to dismiss those. Some warnings say “two people open the gate,” although sometimes this will be omitted: “A person walks up the stairs,” when this is not the case. (They just go by the wayside.) Well reported when UPS, FedEx, or USPS is at the door, nice to know that when I’m at home that’s where I get Easy – No need to hunt through notifications.
But with home security cameras, Gemini always says I have a cat roaming around the house. My dog. Even when I’m at my home again after the end of the day from Gemini about what’s happening around home – Gemini says, “very early in the morning, working in the living room sitting in bed.” Funny, especially considering my dog hates cats.
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Photo-editing –Google Home by Julian Chokkattu
You’ll think I’ll just know tell This intelligent assistant, “Oh, I don’t have a cat. I have a dog,” and it will adjust its models and correct the error. Yes, I did exactly that. In the Ask Home feature, you can talk to Gemini and ask anything about the home. This is where you can request to set a variable, for example. I asked it to turn on the living room lights when the cameras found my wife or I came home, and it understood the action. It even guessed that I wanted the lights to end when he arrived at night, although I forgot to mention that.
