I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful
Google's Gemini Spark is a new AI assistant designed to help users manage their digital tasks more efficiently. While it integrates well with Google's productivity apps, it struggles to provide compelling personal use cases. Despite some useful features, there are notable limitations, such as its inability to use Google Keep for task management.
- ▪Gemini Spark is designed to assist with online tasks and productivity.
- ▪It integrates with Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Docs but lacks compelling personal use cases.
- ▪The assistant can help with tasks like shopping suggestions and packing lists, but has limitations in functionality.
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Gemini Spark is Google’s new 24/7 agentic assistant, designed to help you help you “navigate your digital life,” which essentially means getting your online to-dos done, summarizing the things you don’t have time to read (like the entirety of your inbox), or organizing something that would have otherwise involved too much screen time-filled manual labor, like a personal expenses spreadsheet. The service was first introduced at Google’s annual developer conference in May, where CEO Sundar Pichai joked that Spark, which runs on virtual machines in the cloud, means that “yes, you can close your laptop.” The in-joke here is that he’s comparing Spark to other agentic AI systems, like the ever-popular OpenClaw, which require keeping the machine awake to run its tasks.
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