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He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.Google’s new “24/7” AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf.
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Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo
Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.Google’s new “24/7” AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf.
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He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.Google’s new “24/7” AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. It created a table of friends and family as a “highly realistic reference for who is bringing what,” drafted an email in my Gmail mentioning a shared sign-up sheet that doesn’t exist, and created an ugly deck with slides detailing information about city permits.To push Spark, I asked it to create that missing sign-up sheet and add a link to the email that was already drafted. However, it’s only available to me; I asked Spark if it could give access to my wife, but it said it isn’t currently able to do that.Spark could be a powerful tool. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Advertiser Content FromThis is the title for the native ad
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Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.Google’s new “24/7” AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. It created a table of friends and family as a “highly realistic reference for who is bringing what,” drafted an email in my Gmail mentioning a shared sign-up sheet that doesn’t exist, and created an ugly deck with slides detailing information about city permits.To push Spark, I asked it to create that missing sign-up sheet and add a link to the email that was already drafted.
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