Tested and working on vanilla Arch with the google-chrome AUR package.
What it is: “Gemini in Chrome” adds a button to the Google Chrome title bar, which allows you to share up to 10 browser tabs at a time with Google Gemini. When you share tabs from your browser session with Gemini, it can extract information from them and even interact with them on your behalf.
How to enable
Type chrome://flags into your Google Chrome address bar and hit enter
I’m nowhere near as anti-AI as many here on the forum are, but I’d still probably never use Gemeni (or any AI) integrated into my browser. Nevertheless, a nice, quick tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
As a side note, I do use AI from time to time… sparingly. I got a free Perplexity Pro account through Apple that I use once in a while.
I do use AI - both in my day2day job as well as in private. But adding an agent/lllm/ai-foo to an allready privacy-nightmarish unsecure AND important thing as a browser is just borderline suicidal in terms of protecting the users data.
Thanks for the tutorial! Although I probably won’t use it, since I switched to Vivaldi, but it’s nice that you have spent time to dig into this in case someone needs it. It could be handy for example creating a abstract or something like that on multiple subjects etc.
As a side note, I actually tried Chrome after a long while on my phone after using Vivaldi for at least a year now, and thing that came into my mind was, that was it always that clunky? It didn’t feel like “old” Chrome, if you catch my point.
Well i had a old person yesterday in the shop telling me ChatGPT told him we had the product he was looking for in our shop. I told him that this was not the case. He looked at me and said i am wrong, ChatGPT has never failed him once he said and i must been mistaken. He was looking everywhere for the product in our shop and was furious it wasn’t available.
I tend to play with AI from time to time, but this is exactly the case why it’s not necessarily good thing to use it for everything at hand. It has made some of us so lazy, that we use it into things like this, even though it would probably take exact same time to try finding product from web store and see if it is available on shop near you.
But of course otherwise there would be a missed opportunity to rage at poor shop assistants.
AI can be useful for a lot of things. I use it all the time to answer a wide variety of questions.
I find there are many things which are difficult to find without AI assistance at this point. In large part this is caused by AI in the first place but not much to be done about it at this point.
IMO, completely ignoring AI assistance on the basis that it produces bad outputs is just as flawed as completely trusting the results without verification.
Of course, if your opposition to AI is more philosophical, that is a different thing entirely.
DDG has some of the worst AI responses I have ever seen. I don’t understand why it is so bad but I have switched to the no AI version of DDG. I mean…it is wrong like 50% of the time or more.
You do realize that is never going to happen… right? Love it or hate it, AI is the future and it’s not going anywhere. It will continue to grow and mature. Hopefully with smart regulations, but “go away”? Not gonna happen.
its not in the lounge its not asking about opinion for AI in general …