Gemini Just Got Two Of Chatgpt's Best Features - And They're Free

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Gemini tin now retrieve chat discourse for personalized answers.
• Users tin usage Temporary Chat for added privacy.
• Google besides added caller information power settings you'll want to look astatine now. 

You tin now reference your past chats pinch Google's Gemini AI chatbot for much personalized responses, nan institution said Wednesday. Google besides added a Temporary Chat characteristic and caller information power settings. Everyone, including free users, tin return advantage of nan features successful nan Gemini app. 

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While each awesome AI institution is perpetually racing to merchandise nan latest and top AI models, sometimes nan astir impactful updates are really nan little flashy features that amended nan chatbot utilizing experience. These caller Gemini features purpose to make users' lives easier successful ways ChatGPT already has. 

Keep reference beneath to find retired really to entree nan features (and if you should). 

More personalized responses

AI is only arsenic adjuvant arsenic nan accusation it is given. As a result, punctual engineering -- aliases creating a punctual for a chatbot that has arsenic overmuch circumstantial accusation arsenic imaginable to make it nutrient a higher-quality consequence -- is simply a immense portion of utilizing a chatbot successfully. However, this tin often beryllium a time-consuming process, particularly if you're moving connected thing longer-term; re-explaining your discourse each clip tin beryllium tedious. 

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Now, Gemini tin reference your past conversations to study much astir you complete clip and nutrient much personalized answers. All this intends is that if you shared specifications astir your preferences aliases your life, Gemini tin past reference those specifications successful your early response. 

For example, if I disclose I person a 15-pound Yorkie successful 1 conversation, and successful different I inquire what games I should play pinch my dog, it will already return into relationship his breed and weight without maine having to repetition myself. It useful nan aforesaid measurement arsenic ChatGPT's Memory feature, which rolled retired successful April. Anthropic's Claude besides sewage nan capability this week. 

The characteristic is being rolled retired to users successful nan coming weeks, opening today. Google shares that nan acquisition is first constricted to nan 2.5 Pro exemplary successful prime countries, and that it will grow nan characteristic to 2.5 Flash successful nan weeks ahead. 

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It is important to statement that nan characteristic is connected by default, but if you don't want Gemini to retrieve aliases reference your past conversations, you tin move nan mounting disconnected successful your Settings. To do so, successful nan Gemini app, sojourn "Settings," "Personal context," and "Your past chats pinch Gemini," wherever you tin toggle nan mounting connected and off, arsenic seen successful nan image below. 

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Specific interactions pinch nan chatbot tin besides beryllium managed and deleted from your conversations successful Gemini Apps Activity. More connected that below.

Temporary Chat

Temporary Chat is 1 of my favorite features successful ChatGPT, and now it is yet disposable successful Gemini. The characteristic is simple: whenever you want to person a speech pinch Gemini that you don't want it to callback astatine a later day aliases beryllium saved to your history, each you person to do is click nan Temporary Chat icon adjacent to "New chat." 

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It is nan aforesaid conception down turning connected Incognito mode successful Google Chrome aliases Private Window successful Safari. 

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When Temporary Chat is on, your speech won't look successful your caller chats aliases Gemini Apps Activity, meaning it will not beryllium utilized to train Google's AI models. The downside is that it won't beryllium utilized to personalize your Gemini acquisition (the characteristic listed above), but it does springiness you bid of mind that your speech isn't going to beryllium referenced. 

The characteristic is besides rolling retired coming and will beryllium disposable each users successful nan coming weeks. 

New information power settings

In nan upcoming weeks, Google will rename nan "Gemini Apps Activity" to "Keep Activity." When this mounting is toggled on, a sample of your uploads, starting connected September 2, will beryllium utilized to "help amended Google services for everyone." If you don't want your information utilized that way, you tin move disconnected nan mounting aliases usage nan Temporary Chats option. For instructions connected really to move nan mounting off, you tin sojourn Google's step-by-step guide. 

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If you presently person your "Gemini Apps Activity" off, moreover erstwhile nan move to "Keep Activity" happens, it will enactment off. As a result, if privateness intends a batch to you, I would urge making nan move now.