Google Workspace with AI on the way

While unveiling GPT-4 from OpenAI and Copilot from Microsoft, Google also has news about artificial intelligence for their products. The news is drowned out by the amount of stories about GPT-4, but it is also interesting.

Google is working to build artificial intelligence into its Workspace, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, GoogleMeet, and Google Chat.

According to Google's blog, work is underway to make features that can:

Write drafts based on keywords and automatic email replies, and make summaries in your Gmail.
Docs brainstorming, proofreading, writing, and rewriting help
Creativity with auto-generated images, audio, and video in Slides
From raw data to insights and analysis, formula generation and categorization help in Sheets
New backgrounds and automatic notes in Meet
Workflows to get things done in Chat

Google writes that they start with Docs and Gmail, which get generative AI features that can help people get started writing in a self-chosen style and tone.

Google has made some principles of generative artificial intelligence that they intend to follow in their products. Among other things, it must ensure that the user himself is in control of the artificial intelligence. It will also be possible for organizations, such as schools, to decide how and how much AI should be involved. Of course, this requires our students to use a school account, not a private Google account, where we can't control anything.

Google will begin rolling out their artificial intelligence in the US to their trusted testers during March 2023, and only after a thorough test will they ship it out to the rest of the world. So it will take some time for our students to access artificial intelligence in Google Docs.