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Microsoft Office with AI text generation coming as soon as March

Microsoft is working closely with OpenAI

Beyond just internet search, Microsoft is also gearing up to push AI features into its line of Microsoft Office products, including Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced an upgraded version of its Bing search engine and Edge browser that integrates the ChatGPT chatbot. Now the company wants to integrate AI into even more of its products.

According to The Verge, Microsoft plans on announcing the feature sometime in March.

The company will detail its plans for integrating OpenAI's language AI technology and its Prometheus Model into its products.

The feature will be similar to ChatGPT, which has taken the world by storm since its launch in November. It's essentially an advanced chatbot that can answer questions posed to it.

Google is also preparing to release its own conversational AI service, currently known as the "Bard" project. The company is now using "trusted testers" to shake down Bard before making it more widely available to the public within weeks.



15 Comments

tht 23 Years · 5654 comments

Well, the next few years are not going to be pleasant with the millions of documents with errors coming out of nowhere. Those will be easy to spot. It’s the subtle ones that are going to be dangerous. 

DAalseth 6 Years · 3067 comments

Yeah, this will end well. Just an hour ago I came across this article. 
https://futurism.com/neoscope/magazine-mens-journal-errors-ai-health-article

MAGAZINE PUBLISHES SERIOUS ERRORS IN FIRST AI-GENERATED HEALTH ARTICLE

THE OWNERS OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED AND MEN’S JOURNAL PROMISED TO BE VIRTUOUS WITH AI. THEN THEY BUNGLED THEIR VERY FIRST AI STORY — AND ISSUED HUGE CORRECTIONS WHEN WE CAUGHT THEM.

foregoneconclusion 12 Years · 2857 comments

Fair use laws were created in the context of human capability. These programs go well beyond human capability and obviously new laws are needed. For example: where are the text/images that the program is using coming from? Does the programmer of the AI own the rights/permissions to them? Are they public domain? IMO, any AI program that is producing text/images should be limited to a database that is either owned, leased through permissions that include AI use as part of the agreement or public domain. If not, it should be illegal. 

hexclock 10 Years · 1316 comments

Droves of now useless white collar workers head to the unemployment line. Better learn a trade skill. 

hydrogen 14 Years · 314 comments

The likely consequences remind me this F Zappa quote :

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book