- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
Microsoft famously brought its Copilot AI to the Edge browser in Windows. Now Google is doing the same with Chrome. In a list of announcements that spanned dozens of pages, Google allocated just a single line to the announcement: “Gemini is coming to Chrome, so you can ask questions while browsing the web.” Google later clarified what Gemini on Chrome can do: “This first version allows you to easily ask Gemini to clarify complex information on any webpage you’re reading or summarize information,” the company said in a blog post. “In the future, Gemini will be able to work across multiple tabs and navigate websites on your behalf.”
Other examples of what Gemini can do involves coming up with personal quizzes based on material in the Web page, or altering what the page suggests, like a recipe. In the future, Google plans to allow Gemini in Chrome to work on multiple tabs, navigate within Web sites, and automate tasks. Google said that you’ll be able to either talk or type commands to Gemini. To access it, you can use the Alt+G shortcut in Windows. […] You’ll see Gemini appear in Chrome as early as this week, Google executives said – on May 21, a representative clarified. However, you’ll need to be a Gemini subscriber to take advantage of its features, a requirement that Microsoft does not apply with Copilot for Edge. Otherwise, Google will let those who participate in the Google Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary programs test it out.
It’s crazy watching them shove LLM crap into every facet of their products just to placate idiot investors. Everyone knows it doesn’t work and yet here we are.
Sadly, it’s not that simple.
They’re not cramming AI into products to appease clueless investors. They’re cramming into everything to see where it has traction because AI is very valuable… to them.
If a company can insert itself between you and your daily behaviour:
…then it can control that experience:
This isn’t idiocy, it’s very profitable and fucking evil.
Idiot investors don’t.