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Ever since Google hopped on the generative AI train, the company has been hard at work injecting its AI into several of its products. One of the tools it created is the Help Me Write AI tool. You’re able to access it on platforms such as Google Docs and Gmail, but the company is working on making it more accessible. Google is working on implementing Help Me Write into Chrome for desktop.
As its name suggests, Help Me Write is a tool that lends a hand to help you write content. Say, you need a suggestion for an email to send to a client. Well, you can tell the tool what you want your email to be about, and it will draft an email for you. It could come in handy if you need an idea of what to write. The same thing goes for writing documents in Google Docs.
Google is working on bringing Help Me Write to Chrome for desktop
For the time being, this feature is only for Gmail, Google Docs, Google Keep, and Google Messages. Also, it’s available on the app versions of these platforms. However, the company is looking to expand this feature in a big way. According to the Chromium Gerrit open-source project, chrome is working on making the feature a mainstay in the Chrome browser for desktop. This means that people will be able to access this feature no matter what site they’re on.
Judging by the information we have, you’ll be able to access the Help Me Write feature in any text field that you click. You’ll be able to summon the feature from the right-click drop-down menu. When you summon the feature, you’ll see a separate little window pop up that you’ll type your query into.
There will be differences between this implementation and what you get currently. For starters, the feature will scan the page you’re on for further context. This will help it get a better grasp of what you want it to type up. That’s extremely useful, as it gives the feature a higher chance of drafting exactly what you need on the first try.
Another difference has to do with the options to refine what it produced. You’ll have fewer options to refine the draft. It will only give you the option to shorten and elaborate the answer along with the choice to make it more formal or casual. That’s it. Using it on Docs gives you substantially more options.
When will you be able to use this tool?
The story for that is a little complicated. Right now, the average Joe won’t be able to try it out. The feature is actually locked behind a handful of flags in Chrome. Even if you know how to activate flags, there’s one flag that’s just not available to be unlocked, so we’re all out of luck. We’re just going to need to wait for Google to push this to the public, which some speculate won’t be until February 2024.
At first, several Chromebook users won’t be able to use the feature, as Google could introduce this as a Chromebook Plus-exclusive feature. However, in the case of Chromebook Plus, it could be a full system-wide feature which might work outside of the browser.
Non-Chromebook Plus users could get the browser version along with Windows and Linux users. This is an interesting feature, and we can’t wait until it lands.