To date, Google Chrome has launched three generative AI features and more that integrate Gemini have been teased for this year. Today's interview provides a look at the development process.
“We were thinking about how to bring AI technology to the browser that you do every day — using tabs, using search, typing in forms, reading web pages,” says Adriana Porterfelt, director of Chrome engineering. – A little easier”. . “We asked the entire Chrome team for ideas.”
“When we think about the future of Chrome,” says Adriana, “we just keep thinking, 'How can we be as helpful as possible?'”
Of these four common tasks, the current set of features does not yet address “using search” or “reading web pages.” The latter can summarize subjects, while the former can integrate with SGE. Chrome Omnibox just added a @Gemini shortcut for quick access to gemini.google.com.
The LLM-driven feature development process involves taking basic models and “learning”.[ing] That's what we want to do for our example use cases, and then we evaluate how it performs against a variety of user scenarios.”
Google launched “Organize Similar Tabs” in January, making it easy to scan these groups using emoji with a tab organizer. One concern was making sure Chrome didn't pick something inappropriate:
For example, if you're planning a celebration of life, Adriana explains, you don't want Chrome to show you a skull and crossbones. So, with the help of Google's emoji team, they decided to map out which tab group categories are safe for wider use. “Travel, animals, places, nature — those kinds of things are great use cases for emoji, so we know AutoTab Organizer has a good chance of getting it right by just drawing from those categories,” she says. Is.”
Meanwhile, the theme maker doesn't accept open hints as originally planned, as the team found out “it was hard to come up with right away.” Instead, like Android, the tool offers different drop-down menus: Theme, Style, and Mode. In this case, “narrow options” provide better results, while also ensuring that it is not used as an image generator from normal text.
Finally, help me write the first collecting context about the web page: “It might look like you want to write a restaurant review vs. help you fill out a form or sell something. want to.”
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