Microsoft would like to exploit the potential of artificial intelligence in many applications. The Redmond firm could soon unveil its plans, integrating AI into flagship software such as Outlook or Word.
Artificial intelligence seems to represent the new Eldorado for Microsoft. The American company recently announced that it is extending its partnership with Open AI, the company behind Chat GPT. But his ambitions shouldn’t stop there.
A few days ago, Microsoft unveiled the integration of AI into its Bing search engine. A maneuver that is not trivial, since in addition to wanting to revolutionize the way we use this tool, it reflects a desire of the Redmond firm to bet everything on this technology. Things should pick up speed in the coming weeks.selon The Verge.
Microsoft wants to integrate AI into its software
The American site indicates, with supporting sources, that Microsoft would plan to extend the use of AI (the Prometheus model used in Bing) to other software, more particularly those that make up Microsoft 365: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook… The official announcement should be made during the month of March. The goal would be to help the user in everyday life, but the process is still very vague. We can imagine several things, such as an AI that encourages us to respond to an important email in Outlook or even a smarter classification of our mail. It is already possible to have a preview of the thing in the web application of Word via the new Bing.
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On PowerPoint or Excel, AI could allow the user to easily create suitable graphs. A more natural use of certain software which would save us a lot of time on a daily basis. Anyone who’s ever used Excel knows how time-consuming some of the design steps can be.
With the power of AI and Azure, Microsoft is convinced to hold the next major evolution of computing, a change as important as the invention of the PC or the Internet. The raw technology is interesting, but it remains to be seen how it could be used intelligently in our daily lives. Remember, all these technologies are nothing if the user does not see added value. This is exactly why the Metaverse is failing at the moment.
Source : The Verge