Google wasted no time integrating Gemini into its popular workspace apps, but those AI features are now being tweaked. The company says its new Gemini features for Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides will save you from the tyranny of the blank page by doing the hard work for you. Gemini will be able to create and refine drafts, stylize slides, and collect references from your Google account. At this rate, you’ll soon never have to use that squishy human brain of yours again, and won’t that be a relief?
If you go to create a new Google Doc right now, you’ll see an assortment of AI-powered tools at the top of the page. Google is refining and expanding these options under the new system. The new AI editing features will appear at the bottom of a refreshed document with text boxes similar to your typical chatbot interface. From there, you can describe the document you want and get a first draft immediately. When creating a new document, you can pull content from sources like Gmail, other documents, Google Chat, and the web.
It also comes with extended AI editing capabilities. You can use further prompts to reformat and change the document or simply highlight specific sections and ask for changes. Docs will also support AI-assisted style matching, which can come in handy if you have multiple people editing text. Google notes that all Gemini suggestions are private until you approve them for use.
Gemini in Google Workspace.
Gemini is also getting an upgrade to Sheets, and Google claims that the robot’s spreadsheet capabilities are close to those of flesh-and-blood humans in recent testing. Similar to text documents, you can tell Gemini in the sidebar what type of spreadsheet you need and the AI will use the prompt (and whatever data source you specify) to generate it. Gemini can also reportedly fill in missing data by searching the web. In our previous testing, Gemini had a lot of trouble with spreadsheet layouts, but Google says this improvement will handle everything from basic tasks to complex data analysis.
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