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TL;DR? Google Docs to Include Auto-Generated Summaries

Google also introduces virtual lighting and other improvements to Google Meet designed to make users look better.

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Google Docs will use machine learning to automatically generate summaries.

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For Google Docs that are just a little too long to read, Google is rolling out auto-generated summaries.

Announced at Google I/O 2022, the company's yearly developer's conference, the new feature uses machine learning and language compression technology to automatically pull out the main points of a document.

The feature is also set to come to Google Chat in the next few months where it will provide a digest of Chat conversations. Google says it's also working on bringing transcription and summarization to Google Meet.

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Watch this: Google Docs Getting Automated TL:DR Summaries

Other upcoming improvements to Google Meet include studio-quality virtual lighting that will allow users to adjust light position and brightness. That would improve the image of someone who, for example, might be sitting in front of a sunny window.

Google says its also working to make sure that people look like their true selves while using Google Meet, as it has in its Pixel phones , by using artificial intelligence to improve skin-tone accuracy.