Google’s Gemini Live is perhaps at its most useful in the car, which is why a recent Android Auto bug is both super annoying, and a bit hilarious to watch happening.
Gemini Live on Android Auto, like on other platforms, is accessed either with a “Let’s talk live” command, or through a button that appears in the UI. The experience sees Google’s AI use natural language understanding and speech to have a conversation with the user, both providing answers and being open to the user cutting off the AI’s response to correct it or add more context.
But, for some, a bug is causing Gemini Live on Android Auto to just keep talking to itself.
In a video posted to Reddit, one driver noticed that Gemini Live would start a response, cut itself off, and then respond to what it just said, continuing that cycle in a nonstop loop. It can, of course, be manually stopped, but the bug leaves Gemini Live mostly unusable.
It’s also pretty funny.
In the video shared, Gemini mentions something about a connection issue, pauses, and then acknowledges that it “understands” that there was a connection problem before cutting itself off again to try and talk about the weather forecast, before pausing yet again, reading off a partial forecast, pausing again to acknowledge “that’s right” about the rain in the forecast that it itself had just mentioned.
Obviously, this isn’t supposed to happen.
It’s very possible that this stemmed from the particular hardware in this vehicle, but other users note that the same thing happens to them even outside of Gemini Live, while others say they’ve encountered the problem on their phone too.
This comes as Gemini for Android Auto still isn’t widely available yet, and as Gemini Live in cars itself is considered in beta.
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