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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.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone: No more fucking AI!!!

Oligarchs: EAT IT! EAT MORE AI! EAT IT!!!

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone knows

Idiot investors don't.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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:

  • buying groceries
  • reading news
  • browsing Lemmy
  • writing reports/stories/software/music

...then it can control that experience:

  • choose who you buy from
  • choose what news you read, with the bias they want you to have
  • control what sorts of stories/software/music you create
  • set the price for that creation

This isn't idiocy, it's very profitable and fucking evil.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Most People: Enough with the AI crap already.

Google: Let's bake it right into the browser. People will love it.

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Some People: proceed to install Firefox

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Move to LibreWolf, Firefox is also jamming AI crap in their browser

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Brave (Leo) and DuckDuckGo (duck.ai) are also lost causes for this reason. Cue Napoleon Dynamite ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[–] lemmyman210@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At least with duckduckgo you can turn it off!

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

True. Brave can be debloated but it involves getting into the flags page and disabling stuff. PC is easy thanks to several projects on Github.

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

For the average user Firefox is just fine for now.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Me: discovering Mozilla's AI Sidebar
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

(yes you can turn it off thankfully)

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i saw a short video summing up the last Google I/O keynotes, they said AI in every single presentation at least 20 to 50 times. It's all they do these days

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Microsoft Build conference this week is going the same way. If they didn't have copilot, there would be nothing to present.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

~~People~~ the investor bots will love it.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Great, now I can ask the BS machine to summarize the BS created by another BS machine that spans 20 pages to say something that a human could have said in a paragraph, and did, but had their paragraph shoved down to the fifth page of the results by the other kind of BS machine we call bots and the other just plain BS we call ads./s

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The dead internet looms large.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

To think, a few years ago I was comfortable using windows and chrome browser. Simple child

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

You had me at shitty curved tabs

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Love to see U.S. Tech companies leading the charge in playing the highschooler game of saying an inappropriate word louder and louder in an unwelcome public context until somebody gets in trouble but the word is "A.I." instead of the usual reference to genitals.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not as bad as cramming it into notepad but further vindication in moving off them ages ago.