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.

Sources

Announcing new generative AI experiences in Google Workspace | Google Workspace Blog

Google Workspace is using AI to become even more helpful, starting with new capabilities in Docs and Gmail to write and refine content.

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Google is shoving generative AI into Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat and Slides | Engadget

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