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Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by sebastiennight »

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are?

I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case.

And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by _pdp_ »

From the marketing page it does not feel any different than a browser extension. I don't know. Besides, a browser extension is actually more useful given it could theoretically provide access to other models too.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by smallnix »

sebastiennight wrote: post #14

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

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Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by lol768 »

Hasn't this already existed in Firefox for the best part of the last year? I see a "Ask ChatGPT" context menu option with various tasks ("Proofread", "Summarise" etc) when I right click. It's easy to remove or point at a different provider too (browser.ml.chat.provider) if you prefer a different model, and I think the prompts are customisable.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by easyascake »

sebastiennight wrote: post #14

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

I’ve got one. When estimating tasks, there’s a particular blog article I like to reference [0] and I used an LLM to summarize it into a set of project instructions.

Did it read the summary? Nope, I already know the material and have been using it for years. But it was a great way to communicate the key points to the model as part of project instructions.

[0]: https://jacobian.org/2021/may/25/my-estimation-technique/

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