Google Personal Intelligence: How Gemini Accesses Your Data
- Google launches Personal Intelligence, a feature that allows gemini to access your gmail, Photos and YouTube data to personalize its responses.
- Google takes a further step in the development of Gemini with the launch of Personal Intelligence.
- The system relies on two main strengths: reasoning on complex sources and retrieving specific details from your emails or photos.
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Google launches Personal Intelligence, a feature that allows gemini to access your gmail, Photos and YouTube data to personalize its responses. An advancement that raises questions about privacy and the real usefulness of this integration.
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- Personal Intelligence connects Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search for personalized answers based on your personal data.
- The function is disabled by default and reserved for paid Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the United States.
- Google claims not to train its models directly on your emails or photos, only on your queries and the generated responses.
- Deployment to free users and integration with Google Search’s AI mode are planned soon.
A deeper personalization of the AI assistant
Google takes a further step in the development of Gemini with the launch of Personal Intelligence. This feature allows the AI assistant to analyze your entire Google ecosystem to provide responses tailored to your personal situation. Unlike existing capabilities that were limited to basic consultations, Personal Intelligence establishes connections between your different applications.
The system relies on two main strengths: reasoning on complex sources and retrieving specific details from your emails or photos. Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs, illustrates this capability with a concrete example: when visiting a garage to change the tires on his 2019 Honda van, Gemini not only found the technical specifications, but also suggested different options by referencing his family trips detected in Google Photos. The assistant then extracted the license plate number from a photo stored in the request.
Today, we’re introducing Personal Intelligence.
With your permission, Gemini can now securely connect information from Google apps like @Gmail, @GooglePhotos, search and @YouTube history with a single tap to make Gemini uniquely helpful & personalized to *you* ✨
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