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TL;DR One Australian Reddit user shares all the misidentifications they keep getting from Gemini for Home cameras.
Despite there being no raccoons in Australia, it keeps mistaking cats for them.
Other issues include not characterizing vehicles in local terms.
Gemini is very good at a lot of things, but its expansion into the smart home has really served to highlight a few places where it still needs work. While some recent updates have focused on improving the camera UI, there’s clearly still work to be done on improving Gemini’s subject recognition, as highlighted by one Google Home user from down under.
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Over on Reddit’s Google Home sub, user That_Car_Dude_Aus shares a particularly Australian tale of Gemini’s failings when it comes to cameras. The problem is all about what Gemini thinks it’s seeing — and why it should know better.
In Google’s home turf of the US, for example, raccoons are a common nuisance, often sneaking through yards and digging around trash cans in their search for food. But they’re also not an animal with global distribution, and there aren’t racoons present in the wild in Australia. Despite this, Gemini kept misidentifying small animals like cats as raccoons — even with personalization turned on and the location given as Australia.
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