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更新时间：2026年5月21日 / 美国东部时间下午5:42 / CBS News
据科技专家表示，谷歌的Gemini Spark人工智能工具对于涉足自主人工智能代理领域的消费者而言，可能会成为一款颠覆性产品。
谷歌本周在一系列新人工智能功能发布期间公布了这款新工具——作为科技爱好者和开发者热捧的OpenClaw自主人工智能代理的竞品。谷歌表示，这些新功能可以为用户完成各类任务。
“目前正发生一场范式转变，人工智能正从聊天界面升级为真正能够为用户办事的工具，”康奈尔大学强生商学院科技企业家、访问讲师克拉伦斯·李在接受CBS News采访时表示。
李将Gemini Spark这类人工智能代理比作私人助理，用户可以向其指派撰写邮件、预订餐厅或酒店等任务。“这就好比拥有了一个可以委托事务的团队，”他说道。
康奈尔大学运营、技术与创新教授卡兰·吉罗特拉表示，一款个人人工智能代理要提供最佳性能，必须理解其人类用户。
“你给它一个目标，它就会代表你采取行动来达成目标，”他在接受CBS News采访时说道。“要做到出色，它需要具备与这些行动相关的智能、背景信息和相关数据。”
这正是谷歌可能优于竞争对手的地方。Gemini Spark集成在谷歌广受使用的数字工具套件中，包括Gmail和谷歌日历，让人工智能能够获取用户的重要背景信息。
“它比其他许多产品更了解你，因为它连接了Gmail和其他应用，因此这款代理将展现出个性化智能，”吉罗特拉说道。
Gemini Spark可以做什么？
谷歌周二表示，本周将对Gemini Spark进行测试，并于下周向每月支付100美元以获取最高级别人工智能工具访问权限的谷歌AI Ultra订阅用户推出该工具。
“Spark代表了Gemini的重大转变，将其从一个只能回答问题的助手，转变为在用户指导下真正为用户完成实际工作的活跃伙伴，”谷歌在一篇博客文章中表示。
Gemini Spark可与Gmail、文档、幻灯片及其他谷歌应用同步。谷歌表示，通过访问用户的收件箱，它可以梳理邮件并提醒用户留意孩子学校的最新通知，或是提醒关键截止日期。该代理还可以将会议记录整合成一份突出关键要点的精美文档，谷歌称。
据这家隶属于Alphabet的公司透露，Gemini Spark还可以通过连接Instacart和OpenTable等外部工具，完成谷歌生态系统之外的任务。这使得用户可以向Gemini Spark提出例如预订晚餐或购买食品杂货的请求。
风险自担的人工智能
与所有科技产品一样，隐私可能是一个担忧点。人工智能为人们完成的任务越多，它能获取的信息就越多——随着人工智能将强大的新工具交到黑客手中，或是单纯成为广告商的目标，这都可能构成潜在风险。
例如，将代理与Instacart关联意味着它会了解你的食品偏好，而让它梳理你的电子邮件则可能暴露敏感信息。
谷歌表示，Gemini Spark在执行“高风险操作，如消费付款或发送邮件”之前，需要获得用户的许可。
尽管如此，康奈尔大学的李建议用户逐步融入人工智能代理的世界，最初先将低级别任务委托给它们。
“你第一次使用助理时，不知道它们能力如何，所以先试用一下，再交出信用卡权限，”他说道。“你可以先让它们起草邮件或创建购物清单，因此我建议用户从这类任务开始尝试。”
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Why Google’s Gemini Spark AI agent could be a game changer
2026-05-21T17:21:00-0400 / CBS News
By Megan Cerullo Reporter, MoneyWatch
Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to discuss her reporting.
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Updated on: May 21, 2026 / 5:42 PM EDT / CBS News
Google’s Gemini Spark AI tool could be a game-changer for consumers wading into the world of agentic AI, according to technology experts.
Google announced the new tool — the internet giant’s answer to OpenClaw, the autonomous AI agent being hyped by tech enthusiasts and developers — this week during a rollout of new AI features that Google said can complete tasks for users.
“There is a paradigm shift happening right now where AI is going from a chat interface to actually being able to do things for you,” Clarence Lee, a tech entrepreneur and visiting lecturer at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, told CBS News.
Lee compared an AI agent like Gemini Spark to a personal assistant to whom you can assign tasks, such as composing emails, making restaurant reservations or booking hotels. “It’s like having a team that you can delegate things to,” he said.
For an individual AI agent to offer optimal performance, it must understand its human users, said Karan Girotra, professor of operations, technology and innovation at Cornell University.
“You give it an objective, and it takes actions to accomplish that on your behalf,” he told CBS News. “For it to be good, it needs intelligence, context and information relevant to those actions.”
That’s where Google could have an edge on competitors. Gemini Spark is integrated into Google’s widely used suite of digital tools, including Gmail and Google Calendar, giving the AI access to important contextual information about a user.
“It knows more about you than many others because it connects to Gmail and other apps, so personal intelligence will come through in the agent,” Girotra said.
What can Gemini Spark do?
Google on Tuesday said it is testing Gemini Spark this week and rolling it out to Google AI Ultra subscribers, who pay $100 a month for the highest level of access to its AI tools, next week.
“Spark represents a big shift for Gemini, transforming it from an assistant that can answer your questions into an active partner that does real work on your behalf and under your direction,” Google said in a blog post.
Gemini Spark syncs up with Gmail, Docs, Slides and other Google apps. With access to your inbox, it can comb through your emails and alert you to updates from your kids’ school, or remind you about key deadlines, Google said. The agent can also synthesize your meeting notes into a polished document highlighting key takeaways, Google said.
Gemini Spark can complete tasks outside Google’s ecosystem by connecting to external tools such as Instacart and OpenTable, according to the Alphabet-owned company. That enables users to ask Gemini Spark, for example, to make a dinner reservation or buy groceries.
AI at your own risk
As always with technology, privacy could be a concern. The more tasks AI completes for people, the more information it can access — a potential risk as AI puts powerful new tools in the hands of hackers, or simply a magnet for advertisers.
For instance, linking an agent with Instacart means it is learning about your food preferences, while letting it sift through your email could expose sensitive information.
Google said Gemini Spark will need to obtain a user’s permission before executing “high-stakes actions like spending money or sending emails.”
Still, Cornell’s Lee advised moving gradually into the world of AI agents by initially entrusting them with low-level tasks.
“The first time you onboard an assistant, you don’t know how good they are, so you try them out a little bit before you hand over your credit card,” he said. “You might have them draft emails or create a grocery list, so I recommend that users start that way.”
Edited by Alain Sherter
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