Google’s infusion of his Gemini AI in his services continues with Google Calendar. As someone who often trusts that calendar to make sure to get where I need to be on time, I was intrigued about the possibilities of Gemini in this context.
You are launching as a way for Gemini to review your schedule, find the details of the event and even create events for you through natural language indications. However, here is the deal.
It is assumed that Gemini in the calendar facilitates life by simply asking what you need. No more displacement due to endless events or manually adding things like “lunch with Sarah” (which, if I do not write immediately, will be lost in a vacuum forever). Instead, you can say: “When is my next meeting with my manager?” “Add a dentist appointment for 2 pm on Friday.” or “When is Cabbage’s birthday (my dog)?”
It is not yet available for everyone. At this time, Gemini in Calendar is part of Google Workspace Labs. To try it, you must first register on Google Workspace Labs. This means going to the registration page, verifying the right frames and then waiting for approval, which should not take a long time.
Once you are inside, Gemini appears in the Google Calendar web version as a “Ask Gemini” button in the upper right corner. Clicking on a panel where you can see the suggested indications or write your own application.
There is a satisfactory simplicity to ask: “What’s in my time tomorrow?” And instantly get an answer instead of clicking manually through the calendar grid as if they were decoding the ancient scrolls.
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I played with Gemini, seeing if I could get the birthdays of people and the next meetings and if I could make plans for me asking me to do things like “add a dinner reserve for Thursday at 7 pm.” My dispersion tests, everyone showed Gemini capable of doing everything he claimed, although that means some warnings.
If you expect complete planning of events with AI, such as automatically inviting people to an event, finding the best time based on everyone’s availability or ensuring a main reserve in that fashion sushi place, it is still alone. Gemini can add events to your calendar, but you will need to manually invite guests. Also, for now, it only works on the web, which means that mobile users will have to wait for their programming dreams to come true.
And, as with all the things of AI, there is the question of trust. AI has a way of being almost good, which is sometimes worse than being completely wrong. For example, when the self -correction changes “gathering in three” A “eating the three”, it is technically precise but tremendously useless. So, although Gemini is excellent for quick tasks, I have not yet completely delivered my calendar. I still like to know that if something is important, I put it there instead of trusting an algorithm to keep my life in order.
For those who try and decide that it is not for them, turning off Gemini for the calendar means to completely leave the Laboratories of the Google work space. There is no exclusion option halfway. But honestly, unless you already have an extremely well -organized system, it is worth trying, in my opinion. Even if you only save you to lose an important meeting, that could be a lifeguard.
It is also worth noting that the true magic of Gemini is not that doing something very new, only facilitates the use of Google Calendar. And if you need to remember your child’s next kind of music, that ease of use could be a true blessing.
