Chrome adds AI features that make common tasks easier

So far, Google Chrome has launched 3 Generative AI features and many more Gemini integration features were introduced this year.

Adriana Porter Felt, director of engineering at Chrome, said: 'We're thinking about how to bring AI technology into the browser to do the typical actions you do every day - tabbing, searching, writing forms, reading web pages - a little easier'. 'We've gathered ideas from the entire Chrome team'.

"When we think about the future of Chrome, we just think: 'How can we make it as useful as possible?'" said director Adriana .

Of those four common tasks, the current feature set does not address 'using the search function' or 'reading a web page' . "Read website" can summarize articles, while "use search function" can integrate with SGE. The Chrome address bar has just added the @Gemini shortcut to quickly access gemini.google.com.

The process of developing LLM-powered features involves taking the platform model and 'teaching it what we want to do for example use cases and then evaluating how it performs with a variety of scenarios. different users' .

Google launched its 'Sort Similar Tabs' feature in January, with a tab organizer that uses emojis to make it easier to scan those groups. One concern is making sure Chrome doesn't pick up something inappropriate:

With help from the emoji team, Google has outlined which types of tab group categories are safe for widespread use. Director Adriana says: 'Travel, animals, places, nature are great use cases for emojis, so we knew the automatic tab organizer had a chance of doing it right by based on those categories' .

Meanwhile, the theme generator did not accept the open prompt as originally planned after realizing that 'it was really difficult to give a prompt for this' . Instead, like on Android, the tool offers various drop-down menus: Subject, Style, and Mood. In this case, the 'narrower option' will give better results, while also ensuring that it is not used as a generic text-to-image tool.

Finally, Help me write will first gather context about the website: 'It can see you want to write a restaurant review and tailor that instead of helping you fill out a form or sell something' .

Kareem Winters

Update 09 May 2024