Image created using DALL·E 3 with this prompt: Create an image of Google’s AI-infused future. Experimental, creative, abstract. Use the colors associated with Google Chrome (from its logo) and combine it with the idea and concept of AI. Again: experimental, abstract. Aspect ratio: 16×9.
Google is introducing three new experimental AI features for Chrome. They range from useful to not-so-useful, but they also foreshadow an AI-infused future.
Tab Organizer will automatically suggest and create tab groups based on your open tabs to aid organization and multitasking; you activate it by right-clicking a tab. This is very useful. Right now, I use a Chrome extension called Skeema to do this, and it would be more fun if the feature was built-in to the browser. (To be fair, though, Skeema does way more than just organize tabs.)
AI-Generated Themes allows users to create custom Chrome themes using text-to-image diffusion models without needing AI prompt expertise. You access the feature via “Customize Chrome.” This is fun for about 10 seconds, then it’s slightly annoying.
Writing Assistance will help users articulate thoughts more confidently in public spaces/forums. You initiate AI writing support by right-clicking a text box and selecting “Help me write.” I’m sure I’m stating the obvious, but AI will be incorporated into absolutely everything that might even tangentially benefit from it – and plenty of stuff that won’t.
Google will start rolling these features out over the next few days; the writing assistant is a few months out. Our friends in Mountain View say you’ll see the features in the U.S. on Windows/Mac, but it won’t be enabled for enterprise/education accounts.
Ah… a better life through AI.
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