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Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by eestrada »

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

I use it on my own docs to remove extraneous details. I often write too many words in early drafts and LLMs summarize my writing faster than I can (although I don't know if they do it better than I would/could).

Then the next version of my doc becomes the summarization, and I only flesh out details where the summarization went too far and removed critical details.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by Molitor5901 »

I wish companies would stop pushing LLMs on us. If I want to use an LLM I will use it, but I would prefer to remove the button for it. It feels .. like an encroachment I didn't ask for.

Maybe I'm just getting old enough to be called a Luddite..

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by lossolo »

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?

Long articles that I don't have time to read fully and that contain a lot of words serving only as placeholders, without changing the main message or information.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by geor9e »

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?

Imagine a horrific world where most articles are 5 pages of LLM generated fluff from a 10 bullet point sentences prompt. I know, truly a nightmare world. But in this world, wouldn't it be great to just collapse all those articles down to their original prompt? A sort of reverse-fluffing. So maybe I can't convince you of how great it is in our world, but hopefully at least in this hypothetical world it makes sense.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by lanthissa »

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.

by designing ai first products that can operate at far lower margins. Google has to extract hundreds of billions a year, perplexity, anthropic, openai all dont.

Idk what the future of the browser is but i know if i was in the lab at any of these companies i'd be laughing at the competition putting a out a product that was just a text summary in a window.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by rimunroe »

berkes wrote: post #34
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.

> Many recipes are blown up to make them copyrightable.

To attempt to make them copyrightable at least. My understanding is that fundamental recipes themselves as sequences of steps and ingredients are never copyrightable in the US. From having sat around a lot of recipe bloggers though it sounds like the main reason they do the long essays is to try and improve search ranking.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by modeless »

charcircuit wrote: post #49
modeless wrote: post #44

Google should have a huge advantage in rolling out computer use agents because of their ownership of Chrome. Other agents running in the cloud don't have my passwords and login cookies and history, but Chrome does.

So does Microsoft with Windows. Or Apple. The platforms these companies have built are very useful to consumers do there is a lot of potential value in supercharging them with AI.

I use Chrome a whole lot more than I use any native Windows or macOS app. And when I'm not using Chrome I'm more likely than not still using Chromium (VSCode, Slack, etc). The OS native UI bits are mostly an annoyance at this point.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by aethelingas »

Molitor5901 wrote: post #52

I wish companies would stop pushing LLMs on us. If I want to use an LLM I will use it, but I would prefer to remove the button for it. It feels .. like an encroachment I didn't ask for. Maybe I'm just getting old enough to be called a Luddite..

You can right click the button to remove it.
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