Soon you won't need to browse the web at all, Chrome will do everything for you: watch youtube ads, click on sponsored links, write positive reviews for restaurants buying ads from adsense, and write negative reviews for ones not advertising with google, fight with edge which browser is the default one. On the bright side, you will be able to enjoy more time offline.

As a tab hoarder, I remember there were some attempts to implement rule-based tab organizer (using features like tab name, url, etc...) but most of them were only marginally useful for my case.

I wondered if generative models make any differences here so just tried it and a bit disappointed, it's consistently returning an error with a message "Tab groups suggestions are currently unavailable". It's just launched and the team might be experiencing lots of pages, perhaps I should try this again later.

Here are some better ideas from the top of my head:

- summarise an article

- find information on a given topic (free-form input text)

- full voice control ("click that link", "read that article", "find this")

- auto-submit a captcha

AI theme generation really seems like a solution looking for a problem

The last thing I want is further telemetry from Chrome to Google. I'm so glad I switched to Firefox. This should be an API, not a browser integration.

I had a thought while reading this, and I don't know if this would be the case but...

If it works by you hover over a link and Google gets the content in the browser behind the scenes and sends it to the mothership, where it's summarized and the summary then sent back to you to be displayed by the browser, then you may be accessing the linked page using your stored credentials, which give Google access to content they wouldn't otherwise have access to.

I hope the Chrome devs will add some features like those in Arc browser, such as summarizing content while hovering over a link and pressing Shift.

Kind of amazing how unable to deliver Google seems to be here. Looking at Arc, a new player, and the kind of AI features they came up with, this here looks more like features developed by McKinsey rather than by someone with domain knowledge.

Love the textarea integration. I wish Chrome could do a better job of saving "drafts" and/or backing up text somehow. Adding long content is a constant worry for me to lose it somehow to an error or accidentally closed tab.

Anyone else have AI fatigue yet? I haven't even tried GPT and I'm already sick of AI this LLM that.

I have a chrome extension [1] which lets you re-write your selected text, or look-it up via ChatGPT using your own custom prompts. Gives you more control on what kind of suggestions or answers you want basically.

Won't help with rearranging/grouping tabs, but can definitely help rephrase text in input fields or looking up info.

[1]: https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/LookupChatGPT

Having a feature to summarise the website would be a much better than the first two. As I constantly find myself wishing for such a feature :/

I don't want any AI features in anything. Yet another reason to avoid Chrome. I have Chrome installed solely to watch netflix on Linux.

I really wish the first part of this article had an explicit "Here is how you get started" section. I just about missed it because it's a paragraph that links to a support article. If they want people to actually use this stuff, why not make turning it on front and center?

This feels like a VP at Google told the Chrome team they needed more AI.

Again features nobody cares about

The only "AI feature" I use in Chrome is the live caption one for French (which requires Chrome Canary). I use it to get automatic live caption while listening to French podcast since I'm learning the language. It's buggy as hell though, so if anyone has a suggestion on a replacement that would be much appreciated!

I wonder if this "Help me write" will give different suggestions from the Google Docs "Help me write" feature, or from the dozens of other help-me-write features that are cropping up these days within text-oriented webapps (e.g. Notion).

what i want is 'read aloud', like MS Edge

Anyone else think the whole idea of "tab management" tools is crazy? The way to manage tabs is to close them.

Meanwhile I keep refreshing the Google Bard changelog site, waiting for Gemini Pro in Europe.

I switched to Brave. Slowly trying to get the number of Google products I use down to zero.

Another reason to use Firefox

The only AI feature I'm interested its an AI that lets me remove ads automatically, but Google by definition its not interested in such feature.

I don't want another microsoft edge where I have to press hundred buttons just to open website.

The first two are seemingly of questionable utility, but the 3rd feature (Help me write) is actually quite interesting.

As of late, most of my public written responses (bar HN) have had some sort of collaboration with ChatGPT, and I've often wondered about a native browser integration. For those of us who struggle with communication, this is an exciting prospect!