Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar

The Verge
Gemini's new Personal Intelligence feature, which accesses user data like email and calendar, is a significant step forward but struggles with detail accuracy.

Summary

Google's Gemini has introduced Personal Intelligence, an opt-in feature for Pro and Ultra subscribers that allows it to proactively reference past conversations and access user data from services like Gmail, Calendar, and Photos without explicit prompting. This is a major improvement over the previous Workspace integration, which required users to specifically ask Gemini to check those sources. While the feature shows significant progress—successfully planning yard work by adding calendar reminders and creating shopping lists—it often struggles with fine details, leading to factual errors in route planning and location recommendations. The author notes that while Gemini can make good high-level guesses based on personal data, these inaccuracies, coupled with privacy concerns (like referencing family members by name), mean the user still has to fact-check extensively, sometimes making the process feel like more work than it is worth.

(Source:The Verge)