Google App for iOS Can Now Use AI to Summarize Articles

[MacRumors]

Google today announced that it is adding updated generative AI capabilities to its search functionality, with the aim of helping users to "better learn and make sense of information" on the internet.

With the Google Search app, there is now a beta option to summarize a long article. The summary feature is able to provide "key points" from a webpage, along with a "Explore on page" section with questions and answers pulled from the content.

Google says that the new "SGE while browsing" feature is meant to help people "more deeply engage" with long-form content from creators. It shows key points on articles freely available on the web, and will not summarize articles that are paywalled.

As of now, the new AI functionality is available in the Google app on iOS and Android devices, with Google planning to expand it to the desktop through the Chrome browser "in the days ahead."

In the near future, Google also plans to add improvements to AI-generated responses that will allow users to hover over words to preview definitions and see related diagrams or images on the topic.

Article Link: Google App for iOS Can Now Use AI to Summarize Articles

 

[picpicmac]

Those of us who have already been using the "AI" enhanced Google search via Chrome on a desktop will already know what the result will be: yes, an easy to read summary but one that can be easily misled by whatever the "AI" finds on some website.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Doesn't seem to work for me

Isn't it google app rather than chrome ?

 

[jz0309]

no thank you

 

[JippaLippa]

Haven't used chrome in 10 years, not starting now.
I'll still stick with my Safari-Firefox combo.

...THAT SAID, I installed Edge on the mac as a side browser to use BingGPT occasionally, and it evolved to a decent browser...still, I wouldn't trust microsoft with my info

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

No thanks! I have trust issues with Google.

 

[East India Company]

Apart from some emails and a bit of YouTube, I’ve dropped everything Google so I’m not going to restart now. I can still use chatgpt to do that anyway.

 

[Pakaku]

In other words, TL;DR is a feature now

 

[Saturn1217]

It shows key points on articles freely available on the web, and will not summarize articles that are paywalled.

This is just going to lead to more paywalls.

 

[now i see it]

Counting down the days until dreadful WebKit requirement gets axed

 

[DarthDon]

Google? Never - period.

 

[jimthing]

Why has Google search recently started giving utterly crap results?
I find it completely useless for the last 4-months or so.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Why has Google search recently started giving utterly crap results?
I find it completely useless for the last 4-months or so.

I actually agree with that. Today I tried multiple combinations of a search and Google never gave me a good result. To to it off it was related to using Google photos. Frustrating.

 

[hoodafoo]

if I speak slowly and clearly, sometimes Siri can tell me the time

 

[mike-s]

Lol I’ve just been sherlocked https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tldr-ai-summarizer/id6449304716
Just launched a few weeks ago

 

[Populus]

Apart from some emails and a bit of YouTube, I’ve dropped everything Google so I’m not going to restart now. I can still use chatgpt to do that anyway.

Same, but I don't know how ChatGPT can summarize websites if it doesn't have access to the internet. Is this possible from the iOS app?

 

[antiprotest]

In other words, TL;DR is a feature now

That's what they should call it!

 

[CarAnalogy]

Do not like. The last thing people need is a tl;dr button for everything. Attention span will go down from 3 minutes to 3 seconds.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Maybe one day it will give you a sponge bath too? These ‘features' are sad. People need to keep their minds fresh [read the articles] instead of becoming/devolving into a slave.

 

[coffeemilktea]

Doesn't seem like it works quite yet, which is too bad... I thought I could finally get an AI-powered summary of all those "maybe the next iPhone will have solid-state volume buttons, and maybe the mute switch will get replaced by an action button" articles. 🥲

 

[zakarhino]

I wonder how many other people are like me who have quit Google almost entirely with the one exception being YouTube. We need someone to do to YouTube what Kick.com is doing to Twitch.

 

[vicviper789]

Ah yes, use AI to summarize AI generated news articles

 

[ilikewhey]

oh wow, does this work for west law and nexus? asking for a friend

 

[alchemistmuffin]

With the Google Search app for Chrome, there is now a beta option to summarize a long article. Chrome is able to provide "key points" from a webpage, along with a "Explore on page" section with questions and answers pulled from the content.

But remember, this is all done on server side AI, and so you know how Google handles the data. 😉

(This is why Apple is hesitant on expanding the Siri’s AI further at this time. They want this on machine side, not server side, due to Apple’s huge stance on privacy. Also, simply put, the neural engine on current Apple Silicon is not powerful enough to output AI data the way ChatGPT and other server side AI can do. It’s going to take another few years of die shrink and stuff to finally make super powerful neural engine built into Apple Silicon to make this work.

 

[owidhh]

Let me add my own hot take then...

feature is meant to help people "more deeply engage" with long-form content from creators.

I find it ironic that deeply engaging is purportedly accomplished by.. not deeply engaging at all...