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Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by summerlight »

As a tab hoarder, I remember there were some attempts to implement rule-based tab organizer (using features like tab name, url, etc...) but most of them were only marginally useful for my case.

I wondered if generative models make any differences here so just tried it and a bit disappointed, it's consistently returning an error with a message "Tab groups suggestions are currently unavailable". It's just launched and the team might be experiencing lots of pages, perhaps I should try this again later.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by wolverine876 »

izolate wrote: post #4

The first two are seemingly of questionable utility, but the 3rd feature (Help me write) is actually quite interesting. As of late, most of my public written responses (bar HN) have had some sort of collaboration with ChatGPT, and I've often wondered about a native browser integration. For those of us who struggle with communication, this is an exciting prospect!

I suck at plenty of things and when there is software (or another tool) to help me, I am happy to use it. Software that helps with communication, at least on this level, is a new frontier and therefore, as always, people feel a lot of uncertainty.

As someone who seriously utilizes this particular tool, what do you think of those issues? For example, do you feel like the result has your own voice? Your own specific, precise thoughts? Does it help or hurt growth in communication skill? How do those things play out in real application of the technology and what is the best way to use it?

Incidentally, communication is a strong point for me and therefore ChatGPT doesn't benefit me much in that respect. I hate to think that my skill has lost most of its value, but working in technology, I can hardly complain when it happens to me: Are communication skills even needed now, or how has that need changed?

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by nolist_policy »

lukan wrote: post #9
Hoefner wrote: post #7

I hope the Chrome devs will add some features like those in Arc browser, such as summarizing content while hovering over a link and pressing Shift.

That would be useful, but also probably quite expensive, if every chrome user use this feature?

Not if inferencing happens locally, e.g. with Gemini Nano.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by summerlight »

izolate wrote: post #4

The first two are seemingly of questionable utility, but the 3rd feature (Help me write) is actually quite interesting. As of late, most of my public written responses (bar HN) have had some sort of collaboration with ChatGPT, and I've often wondered about a native browser integration. For those of us who struggle with communication, this is an exciting prospect!

I see this may be a good replacement for general autofill features as well. Seemingly simple autofill tasks like filling e-mail, address, name, country etc... fields never "just works" for almost all sites since this relies on correctness of the target page implementation and devs usually never care of it. Large language models should be better on this task.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by smith7018 »

izolate wrote: post #4

The first two are seemingly of questionable utility, but the 3rd feature (Help me write) is actually quite interesting. As of late, most of my public written responses (bar HN) have had some sort of collaboration with ChatGPT, and I've often wondered about a native browser integration. For those of us who struggle with communication, this is an exciting prospect!

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.
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