{"id":254529,"date":"2025-11-01T02:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254529\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:36:10","slug":"unexpectedly-a-deer-briefly-entered-the-family-room-living-with-gemini-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254529\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUnexpectedly, a deer briefly entered the family room\u201d: Living with Gemini Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a data-pswp-width=\"1920\" data-pswp-height=\"1080\" data-pswp- data-cropped=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Some-security.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cursor-zoom-in\"><br \/>\n              <img width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Some-security.jpg\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>              Oops, we made you think someone broke into your house.<\/p>\n<p>\n                  Credit:<br \/>\n                                      Ryan Whitwam\n                                  <\/p>\n<p>\n      Oops, we made you think someone broke into your house.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          Ryan Whitwam<\/p>\n<p>On several occasions, I\u2019ve seen Gemini mistake dogs and totally empty rooms (or maybe a shadow?) for a person. It may be alarming at first, but after a few false positives, you grow to distrust the robot. Now, even if Gemini correctly identified a random person in the house, I\u2019d probably ignore it. Unfortunately, this is the only notification experience for Gemini Home Advanced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot turn off the AI description while keeping the base notification,\u201d a Google spokesperson told me. They noted, however, that you can disable person alerts in the app. Those are enabled when you turn on Google\u2019s familiar faces detection.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini often twists reality just a bit instead of creating it from whole cloth. A person holding anything in the backyard is doing yardwork. One person anywhere, doing anything, becomes several people. A dog toy becomes a cat lying in the sun. A couple of birds become a raccoon. Gemini likes to ignore things, too, like denying there was a package delivery even when there\u2019s a video tagged as \u201cperson delivers package.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <a data-pswp-width=\"2076\" data-pswp-height=\"1641\" data-pswp- data-cropped=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gemini-package.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cursor-zoom-in\"><br \/>\n              <img width=\"2076\" height=\"1641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gemini-package.png\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"Gemini misses package\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>              Gemini still refused to admit it was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\n                  Credit:<br \/>\n                                      Ryan Whitwam\n                                  <\/p>\n<p>\n      Gemini still refused to admit it was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          Ryan Whitwam<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, Gemini is labeling most clips correctly and therefore produces mostly accurate, if sometimes unhelpful, notifications. The problem is the flip side of \u201cmostly,\u201d which is still a lot of mistakes. Some of these mistakes compel you to check your cameras\u2014at least, before you grow weary of Gemini\u2019s confabulations. Instead of saving time and keeping you apprised of what\u2019s happening at home, it wastes your time. For this thing to be useful, inferential errors cannot be a daily occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>Learning as it goes<\/p>\n<p>Google says its goal is to make Gemini for Home better for everyone. The team is \u201cinvesting heavily in improving accurate identification\u201d to cut down on erroneous notifications. The company also believes that having people add custom instructions is a critical piece of the puzzle. Maybe in the future, Gemini for Home will be more honest, but it currently takes a lot of hand-holding to move it in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oops, we made you think someone broke into your house. 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