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- Gemini AI Mode does OCR (optical character recognition) on the reservation image and flawlessly extracts the event info.
![\"\u2705\"](\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t33\/1\/16\/2705.png\")
<\/li>\n\n\n\n - It creates a link with the event info as a data URL, but that just gets rendered as Markdown code, no link.
![\"\u274c\"](\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tdd\/1\/16\/274c.png\")
<\/li>\n\n\n\n - It presents the event info as a vCalendar<\/a>
.ics<\/code> text record and tells me to copy it into Notepad for Windows<\/strong><\/em><\/span> or suggests it will appear as a \ndesktop<\/em><\/strong> shortcut<\/span>. We’re chatting on Android<\/em>, ya brainless clanker!![\"\ud83e\udd26\"](\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/td5\/1\/16\/1f926.png\")
<\/li>\n\n\n\n- I copy the ICS text, then share it to the Android Files app. But the Android team treat the whole concept of files as unworthy scum, and nothing happens.
<\/li>\n\n\n\n- It displays Download this ICS event<\/span>, but again that’s just a heading, it’s not clickable.
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- This calendar event file approach is probably doomed because only desktop Google Calendar can import a
.ics<\/code> file (because the Android team treat the whole concept of files as unworthy scum).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n- It suggests I go to the Gemini app (aren’t I in that already?!) and tell it to create the calendar event, dictating the details. Result: I cannot directly add events to your personal calendar because I do not have access to your Google account.<\/span>
<\/li>\n\n\n\n- Over and over Gemini writes Here is a link to Google Calendar with a prefilled template<\/span> or Click this Android intent link<\/span> or Click to open in Android Google Calendar app<\/span>, but it’s never a link or working button.
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- Every time I complain that the text Gemini displayed is not a link, it dutifully apologizes… and presents me a different kind of link that isn’t a link. How can Gemini not know about its own limitations on Google’s own platform, one with 3.9 billion users?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Awesomely capable AI developed by Nobel-winning Ph.D.s dropped into a bloated dysfunctional company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Google Gemini AI’s stupidity regarding its own capabilities and behavior on Android is infuriating. Someone texted me a screenshot of a dinner reservation. So I long-press the Android home button to enter AI mode, and ask it to add the … Continue reading
- It suggests I go to the Gemini app (aren’t I in that already?!) and tell it to create the calendar event, dictating the details. Result: I cannot directly add events to your personal calendar because I do not have access to your Google account.<\/span>
- I copy the ICS text, then share it to the Android Files app. But the Android team treat the whole concept of files as unworthy scum, and nothing happens.