I think what's key here is that you used to be able to do this. I used to use Google assistant regularly and I feel like I've discovered dropped features through frustrated exchanges like this. It's easy to miss that it specifically asked for time when you're in autopilot mode and expecting that if there's an error, it just misheard you

I see what you mean, on like the fourth try the assistant explicitly said "just give me the time".

I guess it's philosophical whether you say the user was "wrong". Continuing to ask wasn't going to get them any closer to the reminder being set, so I guess you could call that "wrong" if you want to say they should be savvy enough to know that. They might have even known that but still carried on, I do that sometimes just because.

IMO this software should be pushed to adapt to natural language if they want to keep pretending it's s m a r t. If you were asking this to a person (who was somehow always with you...) and they said "just tell me the time", you'd say I don't know what time it will be, just remind me whenever we get there!

And this is why you have a qa team.

It used to support it though. I could tell it to remind me of something when I got home or something like that, and it'd pop up the reminder when the GPS coordinates matched up.

No idea if they removed that functionality (you never know with Google), or if Assistant is just being shitty here. Either way, something changed somewhere along the line.

it's still on google, because people expect it to be able to do such a basic thing and there is absolutely nothing preventing them from implementing it.