It has not been officially announced, but it has been discovered that Google is working on incorporating AI into the protection mode of its Chrome browser. It is a matter of time before, therefore, artificial intelligence protects us from malicious pages and other possible problems that we encounter while moving around the Internet.
We assume that, when the time comes, Google will talk about it at length to make us see the wonders of this new technology. But, for now, the discovery about the use of AI in Chrome’s improved protection has been made by a user who is using the Canary beta version. The change should apply to all users sooner or later.
More AI in Chrome
Just a week ago we were talking about how Chrome was going to introduce an AI assistant in its browser. And now we also find artificial intelligence in another part of the program that has nothing to do with it: the protection offered to the user. More precisely, enhanced protection, that special mode that you may have activated and that everyone has the option to activate or deactivate at will.
The discovery was made by X user Leopeva64, who has published a comparison of the information on the improved protection mode before and after the latest update. The difference is the precision that Google makes to say that real-time protection is now based on the use of AI. Beyond that there is no new information or data that helps us know how exactly the use of artificial intelligence is being applied.
What does this enhanced protection do?
If we activate this mode, Chrome takes care of protecting us against possible dangerous pages that we try to access, while also giving us protection over downloads or in relation to the installation of extensions. The only difference in the description is in the indication that AI is now used, so we assume that Google will be implementing artificial intelligence progressively so that it can provide protection to users.
What we assume Chrome will do thanks to AI is provide the ability to protect against threats that have not even been registered in the databases as possible threats. The system should be capable enough to detect these risks and thus prevent users from finding themselves in complicated situations. In principle, from what we assume, AI should increase protection success rates so that we can feel safer without there being any aspect for which this technology is negative.
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AI everywhere, the “Enhanced protection” mode in Chrome’s Safe browsing feature will also be powered by AI, Google has updated the description of this mode in Canary:
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In addition to this, the same user has discovered that Chrome is also using AI to manage tab groups. The AI is the one who will be in charge of managing the grouping of the tabs, while it will also have the capacity to carry out an analysis of the tabs that are not being used and thus be able to deduce which of them are no longer necessary. This should help to have a tidier interface and make it easier to use Chrome on a daily basis, especially if we are already taking advantage of this tab group system.
For now, it remains to be seen how long it will take before we see these new AI features applied to the standard version of Chrome. If Google is pleased with the performance provided by the new features, it will most likely not be too long before we see them activated in all versions of the browser. At that time, without a doubt, it is to be imagined that Google will communicate these new functions equipped with artificial intelligence in style.
