Subj : Gemini AI turns up in Chrome browser to help you write, as Google
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Feb 23 2024 12:45:05

Gemini AI turns up in Chrome browser to help you write, as Google plays 
catch-up with Microsoft Edge

Date:
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:40:44 +0000

Description:
Microsoft Edge already has a compose feature, but Googles spin on this idea 
is a bit different.

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Google has expanded the generative AI capabilities of its Chrome browser with 
a new Help me write feature. 

As you might guess, this is enlisting AI  specifically, Gemini, which Google 
recently launched to replace Bard  to come to your aid when writing in the 
browser. This is writing with a small w mind you, meaning crafting short 
snippets of reviews and the like. 

This feature has arrived in Chrome M122 on Windows PCs and Macs, but its only 
rolling out in the US for now (in the English language  youll find the option 
in Chromes settings, under the Experimental AI panel). 

The AI will help you craft any written content in Chrome. So, for example, if 
youre creating a sales listing for a GPU so you can upgrade to a better model 
, it can knock up something and automatically pull over extra details that 
might be useful such as the spec of the graphics card youre selling. 

Or another example given by Google shows how the AI can flesh out a short 
enquiry, in this case about an early flight check-in. The user writes just 
nine words (plane lands at 9  ask to check in early) and the AI takes those 
bones and turns them into a few polite sentences. (Image credit: Google) 

Whatever youre doing, the idea is that the AI will understand the context of 
the web page youre on, and come up with relevant suggested content based on 
that. Analysis: Points of concern 

Google is playing catch-up with Edge here, as Microsofts rival web browser 
already offers a compose feature (powered by the Copilot AI) to act as a 
writing assistant right there in your browser window. 

Naturally, this is still an early working incarnation of Gemini as a kind of 
cowriter in Chrome, and as the experimental label makes clear, it could go 
wrong. Indeed, theres a built-in feedback mechanism (for further training the 
AI) that comes with the caveat that it wont always get it right. 

Of course, you can always edit the content the AI serves up appropriately, 
and even if you have to work on it further, having a fleshed-out version of a 
review, or enquiry, or whatever, provided by the AI is still going to be a 
timesaver of sorts. 

The other concern to be aware of here, as The Verge , which spotted the 
launch of the feature, pointed out, is that Google makes it clear that users 
should not provide any confidential information (phone numbers, emails, 
credit card details and so on) when using the feature. Presumably as all this 
gets sucked into the great generative AI data hoover, although Google does 
clarify that if you do input personal details like this, they wont be used 
for model training purposes (honing the AI to be better). 

There are also possibly thorny areas regarding the potential misuse of 
browser-based AI writing tools more broadly, but with the approach employed 
by Google here being narrower in scope  helping out with more minor writing 
tasks  that side of the equation doesnt seem quite so worrisome in this case. 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/chrome/gemini-ai-turns-up-in-chrome-browse
r-to-help-you-write-as-google-plays-catch-up-with-microsoft-edge


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