Microsoft will soon demo its ChatGPT-like AI in Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
Microsoft announced the integration of OpenAI's ChatGPT in the Bing search engine and Edge browser last week. The Redmond company has also been working on its own ChatGPT-like AI, and will demo it soon in its Office apps.
Microsoft's Prometheus Model: The next-gen AI to power Office apps
This isn't particularly breaking news. A report published by The Information in early January 2023, said that Microsoft is working on integrating OpenAI's chatbot in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and other apps to help users write better, such as replies to mails, autocomplete documents, and more.
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Microsoft's new chatbot isn't just a reskinned version of ChatGPT, it is based on Open AI's next-generation language model. It is called the Prometheus model. It was featured in Microsoft's recent announcement, it was touted as more powerful than ChatGPT and customized for search.
The company is focussing its efforts on Prometheus to use the Bing search index, and training techniques, to improve the relevancy of answers for queries made by users, providing answers with links and citations (annotation). It is also capable of providing up-to-date results including real-time news, understanding the geolocation of the user. The Prometheus model will also focus on increasing the safety of results provided by the AI, to ensure it doesn't deliver inappropriate results.
During the new Bing announcement, Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, revealed that Bing saw its biggest jump in search relevance in over 2 decades when they applied the AI language model to the Core Search Index of the search engine.
The new Bing's search can display search results alongside answers that are relevant to the query, on the same page, but in a sidebar. It can summarize the contents of a webpage or a document, and you can run queries about the contents. Here is an example from the recent event on how the new Bing works.
The AI language model in Microsoft Office apps will use a similar sidebar experience to allow users to interact with the chatbot for their work, such as writing letters, translating languages, etc. It has a compose tab to preview the generated contents of the mail or document in Outlook and Word respectively. While Bing can generate tables and charts, the new AI model will help generate graphs and graphics in PowerPoint.
Microsoft is planning to announce the AI in Office apps in March 2023, with a demo to highlight how it works. The company already has a preview version of Microsoft Viva Sales powered by GPT and Azure OpenAI. It integrates with Microsoft 365 to provide sellers an easy way to respond to mails from customers. You can watch a demo of it on YouTube.
Bing's AI chatbot is still a work-in-progress, and occasionally delivers inaccurate results. There is a waitlist to access the Chatbot in Bing, so the service doesn't have a lot of people using it at the moment. This could prove to be useful for Microsoft, which has a team of engineers working on it to monitor the feedback received from users, to improve the language model, before it is released en masse.
The Battle of the chatbots: Rise of the AI
According to The Verge's sources, Microsoft's original plan was to announce its Bing AI at the end of this month, but Google Bard's announcement had forced their hand to push Bing AI as soon as possible, and it was revealed the very next day.
Unfortunately for Google things didn't go per the plan, Bard started off awkwardly as the chatbot delivered some wrong results during a Live presentation, it was criticized by the Mountain View company's employees. Microsoft, on the other hand, is confident that its Bing AI is superior to its rival, integrating it into Office apps could give it a significant foothold, and establish itself as the leader in the AI wars.
Over 1 million people have signed up to access the chatbot in Bing, which also saw the iOS app jump to the top of the App Store among the most popular apps. Microsoft's integration of ChatGPT in its Edge browser could play a crucial role in capturing the market. However, it isn't the only one with that idea. Opera is already working on a way to integrate ChatGPT into its sidebar, and showcased it in a video. It's only a matter of time before Google does the same in Chrome, and that's when things will really begin to heat up.
Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.