Getting Started with Google Gemini
A practical first-day tour of Gemini: where to find it, what it is good at, how to prompt it, and what to check before using it with work data.
Gemini is Google's AI assistant, and the quickest way to understand it is that it lives in the places you already use Google: a website and app of its own, plus features built into Google products. If you have a Google account, you can usually be chatting with it in a couple of minutes. This guide shows you where to start, how to get good answers, and what to be careful about.
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