This powerful Gemini setting made my AI results way more personal and accurate

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Personal Intelligence makes Gemini responses more personal.
• It pulls from Google apps, so no more manually adding context. 
• You control which app data is used and can disable it anytime.

Every day, there's a new AI feature or tool launching, and the most popular chatbots, including Google Gemini, are constantly upgrading. It gets a bit dizzying. But Gemini recently rolled out a feature I do consider worth trying. Called Personal Intelligence, it connects data from Gmail, Google Photos, Search history, and other Google apps to provide tailored responses.

So, instead of getting a generic result from Gemini after I enter a prompt, the response is personalized to me. What does that look like in practice? When searching for a product, I shouldn't get the top picks. Results should reflect my ...