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I ranked the AI features announced at Google I/O from most useful to gimmicky

AI was mentioned 120 times during the keynote, but which of these features will actually improve your workflow? These seven impressed me the most.

Having a tool that can conversationally answer questions about my multiple inboxes on my mobile phone is a game-changer, taking the assistance provided by email AI summarizers to the next level. The plans for Gemini look promising, with Google sharing that the AI will eventually be overlayed across various services and apps, providing multimodal and on-screen support when requested. I placed AI Overviews at the bottom of the list because even though some might find the AI-generated insights at the top of Search results helpful, there was no real need to push it onto all US English-based searchers as the broader rollout seems to be solving an issue that wasn't there to begin with.

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