00:00 - [Scott] Is Google's new
00:01 and improved Gemini AI
really better than ChatGPT?
00:07 Well, if you're a Google
user, the answer is yes.
00:11 Before you get started
with Gemini, come on down
00:14 to the left hand side
and click on settings
00:17 and then select extensions.
00:19 And there's a number of Google extensions
00:21 that we can enable, but
the one that you want
00:23 to make sure you have toggled
on is Google Workspace,
00:28 because we can do a lot with our email,
00:30 with our files and folders,
00:32 even with our specific documents.
00:34 So let's take a look at an example.
00:37 So with my cursor in the prompt area,
00:39 I'm going to add the at symbol
00:41 and here you can see we have
access to our extensions.
00:45 Now this is going to
help Gemini realize where
00:48 or what we are trying to do.
00:49 I'm going to select Gmail.
00:51 I'm going to say review
all of my unread email
00:54 from the past two days
00:56 and identify the first three
that are most important.
01:00 Maybe I'm coming back from a vacation
01:03 or several days away from my inbox,
01:06 and I just want to zero in on
what needs my attention now.
01:10 What Gemini will do is
connect with my Gmail account
01:14 and quickly identify what
it thinks is most important.
01:18 Now of course, keep in mind, this is AI.
01:21 It's not going to be perfect,
01:23 but it can really help us
to sort, find, summarize,
01:27 and do an awful lot with our email.
01:29 So here it has come back with
the three emails it feels
01:32 that I should review first,
01:34 but better than just giving
me a summary of its title
01:38 and its contents, if I scroll down below,
01:40 I am one click away from
actually opening up those emails
01:45 and responding as well.
01:47 So it's made it that much
more actionable if I want to.
01:50 Let's take a look at another example.
01:52 This time I'm going to hit the at symbol
01:54 and we're going to select Google Drive
01:56 and it can often be frustrating
to search for the exact file
02:00 that you're looking for.
02:02 Well, in this case, I'm going to
ask it to find the Kanban file
02:06 from last year.
02:09 I'm going to specify that it
is last year, not this year.
02:12 And let's say summarize its details
02:16 in five bullet points.
02:18 So there's two things here, right?
02:20 We are finding, we are
searching a particular file,
02:23 but then I want it to do
something with that file as well.
02:27 Just like we saw before,
02:29 it may take a few seconds
depending on the complexity
02:32 of that request, but this
was actually a lot quicker.
02:35 Here are the details. It found the file.
02:37 Here is the summary of the
contents of that document.
02:40 And once again, I have direct access.
02:43 It's showing me exactly
the particular file
02:46 so I can click on it and do more with it.
02:49 But it gets better
02:50 because under every single response,
02:52 you can see we have this
share and export button.
02:55 Here, I can export this
information back to Docs
02:60 or I can take anything here within Gemini
03:02 and draft a Gmail in a single click.
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