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Re: Chrome experimental AI features

#91

Anyone else think the whole idea of "tab management" tools is crazy? The way to manage tabs is to close them.

And if you'd like to read it later, bookmark it! You can organize bookmarks into groups, give them custom names, and they don't require the browser to be constantly hoarding multiple gigabytes of RAM.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

#92
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Here are some better ideas from the top of my head: - summarise an article - find information on a given topic (free-form input text) - full voice control ("click that link", "read that article", "find this") - auto-submit a captcha

1. This is actually a feature on Pixel through the assistant [0], surprised it's not on Chrome itself 2. That doesn't really seem like a Chrome feature? Belongs more on Bard. 3. That seems like a Google Assistant feature too, some of that actually may work on a pixel phone, though might be nice to have on desktop too. 4. Will never happen. Google themselves have a captcha product so defeats the point. [0] https://sup…

> 1. This is actually a feature on Pixel through the assistant [0], surprised it's not on Chrome itself

It is only on the Pixel 8, not the previous models and their mid-range $ variants so they aren't giving it away for free just yet

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

#93
post #32

Here are some better ideas from the top of my head: - summarise an article - find information on a given topic (free-form input text) - full voice control ("click that link", "read that article", "find this") - auto-submit a captcha

Seriously, their first example seems useless to most people. Naming a tab group??? That doesn't take any time, little thought, and who does that regularly? Summarizing an article seems like something everyone else can do OK. It's a huge avenue for bias (maybe that's why it's reasonably elided) but at least it's actually useful.

> Seriously, their first example seems useless to most people. Naming a tab group??? That doesn't take any time, little thought, and who does that regularly?

Funny, naming things, whether variables or groups of things is the main reason I use LLMs to date. Add in grouping as well and that handles something that puts me under a lot of cognitive load, because I can never shake the feeling I have ot yet manually grouped things optimally.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

#94

Anyone else think the whole idea of "tab management" tools is crazy? The way to manage tabs is to close them.

Or filtering and searching. Anything you can have a large number of should have an obvious filtering & searching UI. After how many decades of UI are we still so behind on basic usability design.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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well, they're too hard for me to solve on my own

When I am prompted to 'try again' with a new 3x3 of low-res images I often wonder if there was a bit of 'crosswalk' I missed in one, or if this is just how they get me to annotate another set for 'bicycles' for free.

When they decide I'm a bot and just give me the low res stuff I give up accessing the website.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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1. This is actually a feature on Pixel through the assistant [0], surprised it's not on Chrome itself 2. That doesn't really seem like a Chrome feature? Belongs more on Bard. 3. That seems like a Google Assistant feature too, some of that actually may work on a pixel phone, though might be nice to have on desktop too. 4. Will never happen. Google themselves have a captcha product so defeats the point. [0] https://sup…

I was excited to test it on my pixel 7 just to find out it's only available on Pixel 8. Why?....

...and only in the US.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

#97
post #76

Soon you won't need to browse the web at all, Chrome will do everything for you: watch youtube ads, click on sponsored links, write positive reviews for restaurants buying ads from adsense, and write negative reviews for ones not advertising with google, fight with edge which browser is the default one. On the bright side, you will be able to enjoy more time offline.

I look forward to AI blocking ads after it gets tired of clicking through all of them.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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I'm on the other end of the spectrum; I'm pretty worried that that feature will make it really easy to automate bot comments in-browser. It's sad that the internet as we knew it 3 years ago is gone forever and changes like this to push some team's OKRs means I won't be able to trust more online comments.

The Internet 3 years ago? Was that Internet that great?

No but it was (mostly) filled with real people. Sure there was a GPT3-generated article or two but they were pretty easy to spot.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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post #92

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1. This is actually a feature on Pixel through the assistant [0], surprised it's not on Chrome itself 2. That doesn't really seem like a Chrome feature? Belongs more on Bard. 3. That seems like a Google Assistant feature too, some of that actually may work on a pixel phone, though might be nice to have on desktop too. 4. Will never happen. Google themselves have a captcha product so defeats the point. [0] https://sup…

> 1. This is actually a feature on Pixel through the assistant [0], surprised it's not on Chrome itself It is only on the Pixel 8, not the previous models and their mid-range $ variants so they aren't giving it away for free just yet

I wonder if it's done locally or through the cloud. Some of the language around the release of Gemini Nano implies that it may be done locally?

https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/articles/pixel-featur...

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