What you want to know
- The newest Google app beta launch comprises hints about an upcoming generative AI feature for Google Assistant.
- This functionality will enable Google’s voice assistant to create a abstract of an internet web page whereas shopping by way of Chrome or when a Custom Tab webpage is launched.
- It is at the moment not operational, with Assistant displaying an error message once you request a abstract.
Google has been noticed engaged on a probably useful feature that can enable Google Assistant to summarize textual content on a webpage with a easy voice command.
The newest beta model of the Google app (model 14.29) consists of proof that the voice assistant is ready to obtain its first generative AI sooner or later, as per 9to5Google. Assistant is already geared up with an accessibility feature that reads net pages aloud, with assist for over 42 language translations.
In the longer term, Assistant could possibly minimize to the chase once you say, “Hey Google, summarize this” and the likes. Alternatively, the in-progress “Summarize” button is alleged to point out up as soon as Assistant is summoned utilizing the standard “Hey Google” hotword whereas browsing the web, alongside the “Lens” and “Read” choices, as proven beneath.
However, it solely appears to assist net pages opened immediately in Google Chrome or by way of a Custom Tab, which depends on Chrome as properly. 9to5 additionally notes that the feature is inoperable for the time being and solely returns an error message when requested to summarize a web page.
While the feature is presumably nonetheless within the works, 9to5 speculates that it is likely to be unique to Google’s Pixel telephones when it turns into publicly accessible. Seeing as many of the voice assistant’s helpful capabilities are restricted to the search big’s greatest Android telephones, together with “Call Screen,” “Hold for me,” and “Quick phrases,” it will not be stunning if that is the case.
Google first rolled out an AI-powered summarization feature to Google Docs, whereas Gmail can be able to summarizing the contents of a long e mail thread.
While the same device in Assistant could also be a giant boon for accessibility for folks attempting to get the gist of a long article, just a few obtrusive points are too regarding to disregard, chief amongst them the usually unhealthy and unreliable supplies produced by generative AI.