Many of these tasks can be done simply using Google Assistant, but Gemini takes them to another level. Google Assistant can show you flights, but Gemini can help you plan a whole trip. Gemini can often give you better answers than Google Assistant when asked a question. Many of the questions that would have caused Google Assistant to respond “I don’t know, but I found these results on Search” will be fully answered by Gemini.
Additionally, some of these tasks, such as generating a summary, can only be done by leveraging the AI smarts of Gemini. Pairing access to a variety of Google services with AI smarts will provide some benefits for users. Gemini can now, for example, tell you when a package will arrive based on an email from Gmail. These kinds of smarts are what Google Assistant should have had all along.
Google now appears to be working on a similar one-touch