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In summary:
- Google introduces ‘Skills’ in Chrome, a new feature that allows users to bookmark and reuse AI prompts through Gemini for streamlined efficiency.
- PCWorld reports that users can access pre-made Skills like ‘What’s in this?’ and ‘Calendar creator’ or create custom prompts stored on a dedicated page.
- Skills can be executed by typing ‘/’ in Gemini within Chrome, though AI responses may vary slightly with each use, similar to other AI-generated content.
Bookmarks, or favorites, are now part of every browser experience. In Chrome, Google is adapting AI in the same direction: Now, you can “bookmark” prompts with Google’s new Skills feature for Chrome.
When you want to write a prompt that you can save for the future, you can. You’ll just need to create a prompt, save it as a Skill, and then re-run it again in the future.
Google is rolling out Skills to Chrome on desktop beginning today, Google said in a blog post.
Here’s how it works: When you use Gemini within Chrome to write a prompt, you can save it as a Skill. Those Skills are then stored on a dedicated Skills page, with pages dedicated to a list of Google-suggested Skills, as well as those you’ve created. When it comes time to launch a Skill, you’ll need to open Gemini within Chrome, then type a “/”, or forward slash, to open a drop-down menu of the appropriate Skills. Choose one, and Gemini will execute it.
Some of the Skills that Google has suggested are “What’s in this?” for meal prep and planning, “Calendar creator,” and “YouTube transcript.” Others include “Hype it up!” designed to “offer encouragement to the user.”
Usually, generative AI is based upon different “sees,” so that responses to one prompt may differ from a repeated, identical prompt. Google says that this might occur here, as well.
“Like all AI-generated responses, results may vary slightly between runs, similar to how asking someone the same question twice might yield a differently worded answer,” a Google representative said in an email. “The Skills in our library have been reviewed for quality and reliability.”
Naturally, you’ll need to decide if Gemini will be the AI model you’ll put to day-to-day use, or if you prefer ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude. In any case, the “bookmarked” Skills take Google’s knowledge of the browser and apply it to AI. It’s a small convenience, but a handy one.