Gemini Can Now Watch Google Drive Videos For You 33
Google's Gemini AI can now analyze and summarize video files stored in Google Drive, letting users ask questions about content like meeting takeaways or product updates without watching the footage. The Verge reports: The Gemini in Drive feature provides a familiar chatbot interface that can provide quick summaries describing the footage or pull specific information. For example, users can ask Gemini to list action items mentioned in recorded meetings or highlight the biggest updates and new products in an announcement video, saving time spent on manually combing through and taking notes.
The feature requires captions to be enabled for videos, and can be accessed using either Google Drive's overlay previewer or a new browser tab window. It's available in English for Google Workspace and Google One AI Premium users, and anyone who has previously purchased Gemini Business or Enterprise add-ons, though it may take a few weeks to fully roll out. You can learn more about the update in Google's blog post.
The feature requires captions to be enabled for videos, and can be accessed using either Google Drive's overlay previewer or a new browser tab window. It's available in English for Google Workspace and Google One AI Premium users, and anyone who has previously purchased Gemini Business or Enterprise add-ons, though it may take a few weeks to fully roll out. You can learn more about the update in Google's blog post.
It reminds me of a quote from Douglas Adams (Score:5, Insightful)
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I need one of those monks. I only read about what's on TV. I unplugged It. Seems like I made an excellent choice.
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I was flashing back to The Lost Saucer where they ended up in a time when folks would stay in their mobile chairs and watch their robots play tennis.
(as a kid forced to take tennis lessons, I heartily approved of this future development)
Well... (Score:3)
It's not the AI slop was worth watching, anyways. May as well let an AI choke on it. This is all part of Google's plan to kill off its largest but most problematic product... all of us.
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Good thought. I think it is also about AI training and providing a service where they have an advantage (the content is already stored on their servers) and being able to just push their service to Drive users who might not have signed up for it separately, but I bet even when they did not think about it, some of the CSS proponents will ask for that sooner or later. And no more stupid hashes, just scan the generated text description for trigger words! Can't go wrong!
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Your thinking is too low .. aim higher.
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Your thinking is too low .. aim higher.
Why would it look at my extra-tall girl porn collection?
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There ya go.
No comment (Score:2)
This is just Google trying to get access (Score:4, Insightful)
AI will quickly be owned by only a handful of companies and billionaires who own those companies. And no just cuz you have a 401k or a few shares of stock doesn't mean you own those companies.
That's because the internet is rapidly filling up with AI slop and you can't train a model on another model's AI slop.
So whoever can control a platform that people willingly provide human generated data into is going to dominate everything.
It's going to be facebook, Google and one or two other companies maybe.
If you haven't figured that out this means there is going to be a enormous power imbalance the likes of which you have never experienced in your life.
But I'm sure it's fine and I'm sure nothing will ever change from when you turned 12. Because that's what we all want right? We want to freeze everything in place from that magical time when we were old enough to know what cool shit was but young enough to be protected from the bad stuff. AKA nostalgia.
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So whoever can control a platform that people willingly provide human generated data into is going to dominate everything.
Are most people's opinion worth anything? Experts are extremely fragmented in their knowledge. They know a lot about their area of expertise, but often you talk to them about other issues and they're as knowledgeable as anyone else. Identifying superior accurate expert knowledge isn't easy, per Dunning Kruger. Many (maybe even AI) thinks that if a person is an expert in something, they know a lot about everything. At the same time, everyone is good at something. In some weird niche, everyone might even be t
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To your content so it can use it to train their AI.
AI will quickly be owned by only a handful of companies and billionaires who own those companies. And no just cuz you have a 401k or a few shares of stock doesn't mean you own those companies.
That's because the internet is rapidly filling up with AI slop and you can't train a model on another model's AI slop.
So whoever can control a platform that people willingly provide human generated data into is going to dominate everything.
It's going to be facebook, Google and one or two other companies maybe.
If you haven't figured that out this means there is going to be a enormous power imbalance the likes of which you have never experienced in your life.
But I'm sure it's fine and I'm sure nothing will ever change from when you turned 12. Because that's what we all want right? We want to freeze everything in place from that magical time when we were old enough to know what cool shit was but young enough to be protected from the bad stuff. AKA nostalgia.
Which is just going to be a negative feedback loop. The only videos I'd want an AI to summarise for me are the ones I know I don't want to watch, like known conspiracy theorists, obvious propaganda, Nigel Farage (but I repeat myself). Just so I can learn what bullshit they're spouting without actually having to suffer through listening to it. The biggest use for it I can think of are determining what bollocks are in random video links that have no description beyond "look at this" because the poster is deli
So is it just reading the captions? (Score:2)
- Failure all around.
Takes notes (Score:4, Interesting)
Reading and writing are super powers, kiddies. Video is like brainwashing. Propaganda. Watch my video and you can find out 3 reasons why... Or possibly a tiny bit less pernicious and closer to just advertising. I can't bear sitting thru hours that you could scan and read in minutes or seconds. Bla bla Boring.
Is there any irony that you would want in text form what we so desperately needed in video in the first place?
Its like religion now, methinks. We always need the "new" software. You NEED it. It is THE ANSWER.
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Proving that text is a denser form of information. Watching video is nearly a form of torture. It's painfully slow.
1000000% correct.
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Proving that text is a denser form of information. Watching video is nearly a form of torture. It's painfully slow. Reading and writing are super powers, kiddies. Video is like brainwashing. Propaganda. Watch my video and you can find out 3 reasons why... Or possibly a tiny bit less pernicious and closer to just advertising. I can't bear sitting thru hours that you could scan and read in minutes or seconds. Bla bla Boring. Is there any irony that you would want in text form what we so desperately needed in video in the first place? Its like religion now, methinks. We always need the "new" software. You NEED it. It is THE ANSWER.
Content developed to target SEO goals is converted into long-form videos with rousing music in the background. Each SEO headline is held on screen for ten seconds, while the drivel under each SEO headline is extended into two minute long-form drivel by bored voice actors or, as sometimes happens now, AI producing an approximation of a bored voice actor. What used to be a thirty second lookup and read is now a half hour video that conveys less information than the old thirty second lookup and read. But fear
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timto fill it up with... (Score:2)
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Can I have it watch youtube videos for me? (Score:1)
Taking What Should Have Been An Email (Score:2)
and converting it into an email.
With the added value of burning the planet.
Truly we live in the best of all possible worlds.
Please feed me (Score:2)
So thats why Images on my Android phone has been bugging me every week to activate cloud backup, and no option to opt-out-forever.
The machine is hungry.
AI determined this meeting would have been covered (Score:2)