Microsoft wants to incorporate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Office
The Future. Microsoft — a major investor in OpenAI — plans to use the company’s powerful ChatGPT technology to augment Microsoft Office in various ways. Potential use cases range from making it easier to search for a file to getting ChatGPT to call in sick for you. If Microsoft can harness such a powerful, versatile technology, it could radically change the digital workplace — and Microsoft’s relationship with its competitors.
Clippy 2.0The Verge explored the many ways ChatGPT could improve Microsoft Office — and the ways that it already has.
The tech giant has already incorporated “an unknown version” of ChatGPT into Word’s autocomplete feature and uses AI for spell check.
Microsoft’s working on having ChatGPT improve Outlook’s search feature so that users don’t have to use keywords to find documents.
It gets a lot weirder than that. Microsoft’s rumored to be training ChatGPT to write people’s emails for them — like asking the program to email your boss that you’ll be out sick.
Allegedly, the firm’s also planning a ChatGPT functionality for Bing, and adding a DALL-E image generation function to PowerPoint.
There are hurdles to implementing these advances. ChatGPT still writes misinformation all the time, and it’s not clear how you can create a customized ChatGPT AI based on one person’s data without compromising their privacy.
Clash of the titansMicrosoft can do all this because the company bought an exclusive license to GPT-3’s underlying tech in 2020 after sinking $1B into OpenAI in 2019. Meaning the firm has positioned itself to capitalize on all of OpenAI’s offerings.
If (read: when) they do, Google’s grasp on the search engine space could rapidly loosen. Google’s seen as a leading competitor in the commercialization of AI because of its deep pockets and advanced AI research programs like LaMDA and DeepMind — but if Microsoft surges ahead with OpenAI’s tech, Google will have to pick up the pace.
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