Google’s goal with Gemini is to make a “personal, proactive, and powerful” assistant. The Gemini app today is adding “Personal Intelligence” in beta. This lets Gemini use the data Google already has about you to “supercharge” and personalize responses.
Personal Intelligence can retrieve specific details from text, photos, or videos in your Google apps to customize Gemini responses. This includes:
Google Workspace : Including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, etc.
: Including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, etc. Google Photos
YouTube : Watch history
: Watch history Search services: Including Search, Shopping, News, Maps, Google Flights and Hotels
Along with “reasoning across complex sources,” Gemini will “provide uniquely tailored answers.” This is a step beyond referencing past chats and something the company has been working towards since last year with the experimental “Personalization” model.
Google provides this example of Personal Intelligence, with personalization leveraged when Gemini thinks it will be helpful to the response:
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“…we needed new tires for our 2019 Honda minivan two weeks ago. Standing in line at the shop, I realized I didn’t know the tire size. I asked Gemini. These days any chatbot can find these tire specs, but Gemini went further. It suggested different options: one for daily driving and another for all-weather conditions, referencing our family road trips to Oklahoma found in Google Photos. It then neatly pulled ratings and prices for each.”
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