I'm at my wits end with the assistant on my newly acquired S25 ultra - I honestly think I'd be better off talking to a 3 year old child. Where do I begin? Devices. I'll ask it to turn on/off a device and it will tell me it's not available or set up (it is). I'll ask it again and it will do as asked, just like that. Spelling. It thinks there are 3 Os in the word tomato (my nephew was checking his spelling and thought it'd be cool to use AI). It took a 10 minute conversation with Gemini before it finally admitted there are only 2 occurences of the letter O in tgat word.
Now I've asked it to recommend independant high st stores specialising in smart casual mens clothes within a 100 mile radius of my location (north west England) but to exclude online retailers, charity / 2nd hand shops and supermarkets. What does it do? It ignores me (recommends london shops, shops that don't even sell clothes as well as online retailers and supermarkets) and refuses to acknowledge it is wrong until I go through a step by step explanation of why it's wrong before I get the usual "sorry, under development / still learning" etc. spiel. It's consistently making the same errors over and not doing what I've asked of it. I did eventually get it to admit that it is useless and not fit for purpose which brought me a brief amount of pleasure.
Then I've tried Gemini live. Pointed the camera at a Ficus Exotica and asked it to identify it, which it got wrong (said it's Devils Ivy). When I corrected it, it told me I was right, claimed it to be another plant I can't even pronounce and when corrected again, told me it was.... Devil's Ivy.
I'm finding it maddeningly frustrating to use. It took over an hour before I gave up trying to get it to come up with a meal plan meeting specific criteria. Grok3 managed it in about 5 seconds flat. In every way I've used this damned thing, it has not once got anything right or responded to requests appropriately.
What the hell is wrong with it? Is anyone else experiencing similar? All I can say is thank God I'm in the free trial period because if I was paying for this garbage I'd be demanding a refund.
