Google releases next generation AI tools for Gmail, cloud software

Alphabet’s Google rolled out a flurry of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for its email, collaboration and cloud software on Tuesday, days after its rival Microsoft was expected to make a similar announcement.

In a replay of last month’s dueling chatbots launched by the tech giant, Alphabet Promoted a “magic wand” for its popularity Google Docs Software that can draft marketing blogs, training plans or other text, then modify its tone at users’ discretion, a company official showed reporters.

MicrosoftMeanwhile, Thursday’s event teased how it’s “resuming productivity oh,” which is expected to have its own competing word processor appear.

Alphabet also said that its AI will be able to summarize message threads. GmailCraft slide presentations, personalize customer outreach and take meeting notes as part of its upgrade google workspaceA product suite with billions of users on free and paid accounts.

advance show how chatgpt raced in silicon Valley To implement products with so-called generative AI, which learns from past data how to create fresh content, like the chatbot sensation.

Microsoft, Alphabet and peers are investing billions of dollars to build and deploy the technology, hoping that the wins from faster typing and creative work for office workers will far outweigh the cost of these efforts.

“This is the next step where we are bringing humans together with AI aides, working in real time,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. Said In a press conference.

Alphabet is providing access to the new workspace features to approved trial users on a rolling basis throughout the year, ahead of a wider launch, similar to this and Microsoft’s phased release of its chatbot programs.

Kurian declined to say how much the upgraded workspaces might cost businesses or consumers.

AI-Generated Corgi

Google also unveiled a range of generative AI tools for its cloud-computing customers, for example previewing access to PaLM, one of its most powerful “large language models” that generates human-like text.

Google Said customers can fine-tune their AI models with their own data while keeping ownership of the information and benefits.

In another enterprise software example, Google showed how a fictional furniture business could build a better customer-service chatbot capable of generating images as well as text, such as showing that a mid-century modern chair But what would a Corgi dog look like?

A promotional video showed the chatbot could integrate with a payment system, so a shopper could buy a chair.

According to the video, Google aims its AI to “replace” the jobs of marketers, lawyers, scientists and teachers.

The Mountain View, California-based company announced a partnership with high-profile AI research lab Midjourney alongside Google to provide cloud infrastructure, including its custom “TPU” chips.

Microsoft’s generative-AI rollout has so far gone beyond Alphabet, which is wary of the social pitfalls as well as damage to its reputation as a trusted source of information.

Such software carries the risk of erroneous responses known as “hallucinations”.

A Factual Error That’s Alphabet’s Chatbot forage Performances in a demo last month contributed to a $100 billion (roughly Rs. 8,23,300 crores) drop in its market value, though Microsoft scrutinized itself when its Bing search chatbot professed love or test users. threatened to do

Kurian said Google remains “deeply committed to responsible AI” by giving customers control and reviewing the fair use of its products. Microsoft has also added security measures to its search software.

© Thomson Reuters 2023


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