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Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by sebastiennight »

morkalork wrote: post #27
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 been using it on my own written docs to see what my co-workers inevitably see

Wow, that is both hilarious, depressing, and something that I think I'll start doing now. Thanks

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by soulofmischief »

leoff wrote: post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

What's unfair about that? Google is definitely a monopoly, but as long as other models can eventually enjoy similar integrations, through extensions or otherwise, I don't see how it's unfair for Google to add their model to their browser and search page, especially when their chief business model of search (OK, we know it's really just ads, but still) is currently being directly threatened by other model and search providers.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by ivape »

leoff wrote: post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

It's very simple. Make a new browser. Chrome was a new browser and they worked hard to get market share. AI-first browsers with completely new workflows are what's in order, and no one is going to just hand that to any company. You'll have to innovate. Chrome literally saved web development, so we're not going to sit around and act like it was a mega company just pushing something down people's throats.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by berkes »

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?

Recipes.

"Summarize it. Keep only instructions and ingredients (more prompt about how to format instructions, what units to use, how to order instructions) and start with one sentence that describes the dish and it's origin"

Which is a terrible waste, really. Many recipes are blown up to make them copyrightable. Often done with AI. And then I use AI to remove all that again.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by antithesizer »

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?

Yeah we already have a perfectly serviceable way to extract the meat from an article and avoid the filler (i.e. don't click just read the headline)

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by rvz »

leoff wrote: post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

> How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this?

This is what Perplexity is already doing with their own browser. But it tells you that a website is not enough.

OpenAI or Anthropic either need to go and build their own browser or even buy an existing one.

Does anyone have an "Idea" who it could be? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42213288

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by gigatree »

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?

The text summary for group chats provides a lot more information at a glance than “21 new messages”

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by synergy20 »

ivape wrote: post #33
leoff wrote: post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

It's very simple. Make a new browser. Chrome was a new browser and they worked hard to get market share. AI-first browsers with completely new workflows are what's in order, and no one is going to just hand that to any company. You'll have to innovate. Chrome literally saved web development, so we're not going to sit around and act like it was a mega company just pushing something down people's throats.

for those who can, DO. for those who can't, SUE (or cry).

anyone can fork chromium, or work with firefox to do similar things, or even write a chrome extension. Google worked hard to make chrome better and leave the rest in the dust, please don't make it like Google is at fault.

The cruelty of reality is that those who are better than you are also working harder/smarter than you, but it's not their fault.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by [deleted] »

leoff wrote: post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

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