The AI chatbot race is heating up, and now Google is going to give Gemini the ability to understand you like perhaps no one else. Gemini will not only be able to remember previous conversations with a person, but also learn from their actions in other apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, and YouTube, said Josh Woodward, president of Google Labs and Gemini.
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In April, OpenAI announced that it would significantly expand ChatGPT’s memory, allowing the assistant to look back at past conversations with the user and use that information to personalize future responses that the company believes will be more tailored to the user’s interests, habits, and preferences, providing a more comfortable and useful experience.
Google is not stopping there. In the near future, the company will give Gemini access to the user’s past chat history and AI, and then roll out a feature called pcontext, which stands for “personalized context.” The feature is currently being tested internally. It is designed to extract information from a user’s account in the Google ecosystem, which will give Gemini a deep understanding of the user’s life: Gmail, Google Photos, Google Calendar, Google Search, and YouTube are mentioned, among others. The company intends to make Gemini more proactive, but did not specify what exactly it means. Perhaps the AI assistant will make useful suggestions on its own, taking into account the user’s schedule, web history, and inbox activity.
Such deep integration, of course, raises privacy concerns. Google already stores an enormous amount of information about users, and opening it up to the AI system and allowing it to operate on it is another step forward. So the company has assured that it will ask users for explicit permission before Gemini has access to this data. This is a step toward making Gemini more “personal, proactive and powerful,” Mr. Woodward believes. And he hinted that more information is coming soon.