This! I thought they were integrating gemini and ditching alexa. Why go through all this trouble if you are going to deploy your own? Unless your own is going to take YEARS until operational?
I have to disagree. One major concern people (at least should) have is the privacy of their AI communications. If Rivian controls the majority of your vehicle-related AI interaction then at least we don’t have to worry about Google changing their mind about data sharing and sharing your requests for directions to the back parking lot the Chicken Ranch with their “trusted partners”. It’d be a lot easier to pressure Rivian to keep private things private than becoming dependent on third parties if you don’t absolutely have to.
From everything I've seen in my own Rivian first hand, in September, it is running off Gemini LLM and has text functionality etc.
Obviously everyone has to decide for themselves. In my experience, when you accept third tier software in the name of privacy you get garbage like Siri. (Which means eventually you have to pay a few billion to license Gemini anyway.) I am personally past the illusion of privacy being possible and I want the benefits of an AI agent that knows me. BUT I respect and honor people who want to keep their data private. I would hope that Rivian would have a real local Gemini integration and give us the option to connect to our full Gemini account or not.
Stop spreading propaganda,
Same category, I too find it often more effort to control a device by voice rather than just doing so via a physical interface, but that could just be down to how we have grown up. As it becomes more common place, and children adapt to it, physical interfaces will become the awkward control type.
Fun fact...the voice actor for the computer in almost all of the Star Trek series/movies was the same actor who played Troi's mother. They had an episode early on where she was arguing w/ the computer...it was pretty funny.
