The battle of artificial intelligence (AI) has only just begun. Google announced yesterday that its office applications Docs (text), Gmail (mail), Sheets (spreadsheet) and Slides (presentations), will have generative AI functions throughout this year. The announcement came just a few hours before OpenAI announced the GPT-4 language model, which will replace ChatGPT and power the artificial intelligence functions of Microsoft services.
The new functions that Google prepares are, according to the announcement, compose, reply, summarize and prioritize Gmail messages; brainstorming, proofreading, writing and rewriting in Docs; creation of automatically generated images, audio and video in Slides; Go from raw data to insights and analysis through autocomplete, formula building, and contextual categorization in Sheets; backgrounds and screenshots in Meet and enable workflows to perform tasks in Chat.
Johanna Voolich Wright, Vice President of Product at Google Workspace published an article yesterday to explain these developments. For example, in Gmail Docs, the AI ??will serve to “help people start writing”.
“Just by writing down the topic you would like to write about –added the directive-, a draft will be generated instantly. Thanks to artificial intelligence you will be able to continue refining, editing and getting more suggestions, as many times as necessary.”
Since December, with the launch of ChatGPT, funded by Microsoft, Google has accelerated the release of its AI products. A few weeks ago, before the application of artificial intelligence to the Bing search engine, Google announced that its would also have the same type of function, although there is no date for its arrival to the general public.
While Bing is already incorporating artificial intelligence into search, Google hasn’t yet. Have this function tested. In the same way, now it is going to put the AI ??functions in office applications to be tested by experts and first in English.
Google also announced yesterday PaLM, an application programming interface for developers to create apps based on its artificial intelligence language models. Microsoft’s response, by falling.
