Spend Too Much Time Scheduling Meetings? This Gemini Feature Could Save You The Hassle

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Google announced a caller "Help maine schedule" feature.
• It enables Gemini to schedule gathering times suggested successful Gmail.
• The characteristic only useful pinch individual contacts.

You whitethorn already beryllium utilizing Google's Gemini to thief you draught emails, create presentations, and constitute up reports connected Docs. Now nan AI-powered productivity instrumentality is making its measurement to your calendar. 

Also: How to move disconnected Gemini successful your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and much - it's easy to opt out

Gmail's "Help maine schedule" characteristic utilizes Gemini to automatically group gathering times pinch group whose calendars you cannot view. According to Google, this characteristic should destruct nan request to nonstop aggregate emails to coordinate gathering times, particularly pinch group who don't make their calendars visible to others. 

How it works

If personification sends you an email requesting a one-hour catch-up, Gemini will propose clip slots that align pinch your schedule. Then, you tin edit nan suggested clip slots, insert them wrong your email, and nonstop them to nan recipient. Once they prime a time, Gemini will automatically adhd nan gathering to some participants' calendars.

This characteristic only useful erstwhile some participants are communicating via Gmail and utilizing Google Calendar to schedule meetings. Additionally, this characteristic is constricted to scheduling meetings pinch individual contacts, and does not activity for aggregate group aliases group meetings.

AI and productivity

This characteristic is conscionable nan latest of aggregate Gemini-powered productivity devices Google has announced recently. This twelvemonth alone, Google announced that users tin stock Gemini Gems (custom AI agents), use Gemini to drawback up connected changes to Docs, Slides, and Sheets, and person Gemini clear retired their Gmail inbox. 

Also: Use Google Chat? Gemini tin edit your messages now

Companies for illustration Google and Microsoft are heavy investing successful creating AI-powered productivity devices for nan workplace, aiming to alteration labor to attraction little connected tedious, monotonous, aliases repetitive tasks. 

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Recent research suggests that Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot are nan apical 2 AI systems that utilize agentic AI, which employs instrumentality learning models to emulate real-time quality decision-making and lick problems.

The aforesaid investigation asserts that this type of AI strategy will importantly effect endeavor operations by enabling automated problem-solving pinch minimal quality oversight. These AI agents are becoming ubiquitous successful nan integer workspace, spanning collaborative chat rooms, emails, online gathering rooms, and cloud-based developer tools. 

Also: Microsoft Copilot AI tin now propulsion accusation straight from Outlook, Gmail, and different apps

At nan aforesaid time, however, astir businesses are struggling to spot nan ROI connected AI tools, moreover arsenic usage is increasing, according to caller investigation from Atlassian. Other studies corroborate nan aforesaid concerns.