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Gemini in Chrome
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- jadbox 1y agoNote that the current version does not support Google workspace actions, like checking email, creating calendar items, or looking up notes in Keep. Essentially Gemini in Chrome is just the LLM with the current page context. (Also does not support multiple tabs yet)
- dimitri-vs 1y agoGoogle Workspace is always like 6 months behind on features. Even basic things like being able to delete chats: https://support.google.com/a/thread/321841996/why-can-t-i-delete-chats-from-gemini-advanced-google-workplace-edition?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/thread/321841996/why-can-t-i-de...
- nullbyte 1y agoIts a great idea, Ive been looking for an extension that can do this. Pretty nice its baked in now
- andybak 1y agoIsn't it worse having it baked in? Usually extensions move faster, compete for best feature set etc etc. "Baked in" usually means "that's the last update we're gonna see". Plus I might want to - you know - switch browsers one day.
- t1amat 1y agoNot a lawyer but the timing of this seems poor when the govt is deciding on whether Google should spin off Chrome or not.
- dietr1ch 1y agoTiming in Google is all about perf cycles. This is being done so people can say they launched and landed Gemini in Chrome.
- martius 1y agoI wish this old legend would die already. It's not even perf/grad season.
- ivape 1y agoWord on the street: https://stocktwits.com/Johnnyalgo/message/616611886 https://stocktwits.com/Johnnyalgo/message/616611886 TLDR: Judge on the case appears to be more sympathetic toward Google than reported. —- Imho, Google has been the most relentless on pushing AI than any other company atm. Sundar is not getting enough credit for this.
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- bloomca 1y agoFrankly this ship has sailed long time ago, as sad as it sounds.
- i_love_retros 1y agoOnly if you choose to use google products. Plenty of better paid alternatives.
- someNameIG 1y agoIf you're not using Google products you're most likly not using Chrome, so have nothing to worry about with this.
- i_love_retros 1y agoI worry for other people
- nullbyte 1y agoI have just embraced it at this point. I give google maps access to my location history too for the timeline feature
- aethelingas 1y agoI use the feature. You choose what to share. It's not sharing any tab/page until you tell it to.
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- sebastiennight 1y agoCan somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?
- smallnix 1y agoCorporate org level announcement mails
- rcMgD2BwE72F 1y agoUnnecessary long-form news articles that bury the lede.
- sebastiennight 1y agoSo Management went to ChatGPT and asked, "can you write a launch email about $event_x " and you then go there to ask, "what did management want to say in this email about $event_x"? How likely is it that the output summary is mostly made of stuff that the LLM made up in the first expansion process? (eg, you're getting summarized noise if the original signal - the prompt - was much shorter than the email)
- easyascake 1y agoI’ve got one. When estimating tasks, there’s a particular blog article I like to reference [0] and I used an LLM to summarize it into a set of project instructions. Did it read the summary? Nope, I already know the material and have been using it for years. But it was a great way to communicate the key points to the model as part of project instructions. [0]: https://jacobian.org/2021/may/25/my-estimation-technique/ https://jacobian.org/2021/may/25/my-estimation-technique/
- sebastiennight 1y agoAh OK. So in this case, this was not you trying to ingest a condensed version of the info, but rather transforming it to build a prompt (under the assumption that shorter instructions would perform better than the full article). Makes sense
- SoKamil 1y agoI wonder how The Browser Company wants to compete with this given infinite Google resources.
- rvz 1y agoThey don't. They just get themselves acquired. But the question is by "who"? 6 months later after this [0] it now looks almost very obvious. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42213288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42213288
- _pdp_ 1y agoFrom the marketing page it does not feel any different than a browser extension. I don't know. Besides, a browser extension is actually more useful given it could theoretically provide access to other models too.
- skvmb 1y agoI was excited to see the Gemini protocol adopted by Chrome, but that is not what this is. I'll be fine lol
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- lol768 1y agoHasn't this already existed in Firefox for the best part of the last year? I see a "Ask ChatGPT" context menu option with various tasks ("Proofread", "Summarise" etc) when I right click. It's easy to remove or point at a different provider too (browser.ml.chat.provider) if you prefer a different model, and I think the prompts are customisable.
- sebastiennight 1y agoSounds like you installed some kind of extension maybe? This definitely does not seem like any Firefox default behavior.
- lol768 1y agoNo, it's part of the browser. Still experimental, though.
- sebastiennight 1y agoOK, found it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot > Starting with Firefox version 133, you have the option to use an AI chatbot of your choice in an updated sidebar. The sidebar allows you to keep a variety of browser tools, including a chatbot, in view as you browse. Right now, you can choose from the following chatbot providers: Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat by Hugging Face and Le Chat Mistral.
- leoff 1y agoHow can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.
- soulofmischief 1y agoWhat's unfair about that? Google is definitely a monopoly, but as long as other models can eventually enjoy similar integrations, through extensions or otherwise, I don't see how it's unfair for Google to add their model to their browser and search page, especially when their chief business model of search (OK, we know it's really just ads, but still) is currently being directly threatened by other model and search providers.
- ramoz 1y agoYea i dont think googles distribution has any real threat other than the enterprise monopoly equivalent. And googles path to evolved ad revenue is clear in Veo3. Effective ads will be personalized videos - Google owns the infrastructure and data to make this real, others do not.
- leoff 1y ago>as long as other models can eventually enjoy similar integrations, through extensions They can't, Gemini is being baked in the browser. Other players can't do this.
- ivape 1y agoIt's very simple. Make a new browser. Chrome was a new browser and they worked hard to get market share. AI-first browsers with completely new workflows are what's in order, and no one is going to just hand that to any company. You'll have to innovate. Chrome literally saved web development, so we're not going to sit around and act like it was a mega company just pushing something down people's throats.
- synergy20 1y agofor those who can, DO. for those who can't, SUE (or cry). anyone can fork chromium, or work with firefox to do similar things, or even write a chrome extension. Google worked hard to make chrome better and leave the rest in the dust, please don't make it like Google is at fault. The cruelty of reality is that those who are better than you are also working harder/smarter than you, but it's not their fault.
- modeless 1y agoGoogle should have a huge advantage in rolling out computer use agents because of their ownership of Chrome. Other agents running in the cloud don't have my passwords and login cookies and history, but Chrome does.
- andybak 1y agoAnd that is a terrifying sentence to read.
- charcircuit 1y agoSo does Microsoft with Windows. Or Apple. The platforms these companies have built are very useful to consumers do there is a lot of potential value in supercharging them with AI.
- modeless 1y agoI use Chrome a whole lot more than I use any native Windows or macOS app. And when I'm not using Chrome I'm more likely than not still using Chromium (VSCode, Slack, etc). The OS native UI bits are mostly an annoyance at this point.
- aucisson_masque 1y ago> Gemini in Chrome is first rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US who have their Chrome language set to English Thought it was important enough but somewhat hidden on their website behind a scrolling faq.
- aethelingas 1y agoIt's also been rolled out to Chrome Canary/Beta it seems
- Molitor5901 1y agoI wish companies would stop pushing LLMs on us. If I want to use an LLM I will use it, but I would prefer to remove the button for it. It feels .. like an encroachment I didn't ask for. Maybe I'm just getting old enough to be called a Luddite..
- aethelingas 1y agoYou can right click the button to remove it.
- tpm 1y ago"Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now get early access to Gemini in Chrome. Learn more" And that link goes to a page that does not know I already have AI Pro subscription and does not say anything about "early access to Gemini in Chrome". Great.