Hmm, no? It has access to all of the content of all of you're currently open tabs, and is able to parse images on web pages as well.
It would be neat if it could also browse on your behalf, but that would present all kinds of security risks.
But whats the vision of this? Where are they trying to take the customer?
I feel like this issue relates back to the origin of Google (search) in the first place. It was borne out of a technology in which the founders did not envision what it would become. It seems the firm just tries ideas and then tries to figure out where it goes - thats the culture. And unsurprisingly, yields a lot of failiures.
In contrast, Apples approach yields a much higher rate of success with less risk.
I do need machines to do the browsing for me.
They exist for that very reason, the web is much friendlier.
I 100% don't feel comfortable letting my browser work alone, but "agentic browsers" are a thing some people want and/or are building.
This is supposed to be a good feature? Not a privacy nightmare?
Of course, it should also be possible to completely disable Gemini so as to avoid accidentally sending it private browsing content.
Well, they're gonna have to support an astronomical scale of queries - not many companies in the world are able to do it and Alphabet is doing it pretty much on their own stack of cloud, a.i chips and software. So sure, the front end is not a big deal but this is still a big move.
https://research.google/blog/mechanism-design-for-large-lang...