Microsoft wants to use the capabilities of GPT, the language model developed by OpenAI and on which it is based ChatGPTfor several of the applications in the Office suite, now known as Office 365. According to The Informationthe firm founded by Bill Gates has been testing the integration of the aforementioned AI in Word, PowerPoint and Outlookin order to improve typing and search results.
in outlookMicrosoft has been testing GPT to improve email search results, allowing you to find a specific email without using a keyword. The user should therefore just enter some context in the search bar so that the AI can find the specific email.
Based on the context of the email, ChatGPT could also suggest answers or even compose emails. For example, if someone needs to send an email to say that they are away on vacation, they would only have to say to the AI: “write an email explaining that I am on vacation”, and it will write something more argumentative. This last function could also be present in Wordso that users only have to write a short description of what they want to enter in the text, and the GPT-based model does the rest and writes the content.
In the case of PowerPointMicrosoft could take advantage of DALL-E, another AI developed by OpenAI, to create custom images based on information gleaned from team meetings.
Microsoft faces several challenges in using ChatGPT and other models developed by OpenAI
These features, yes, have only been tested internally, and it is unknown if Microsoft will end up releasing them officially. The company, in fact, has encountered a couple of problems when using GPT in several of its apps. One of them is the little precision that the current version of ChatGPT has when it comes to offering some answers, which could be false or inaccurate. It is precisely something that we have seen repeatedly.
The other problem is Privacy. Microsoft, in particular, has been working on customizing GPT-3 and GPT-4, which could be officially released this year, so that they are able to work without compromising the user’s personal data or other private information, such as transcripts. of the meetings.
Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint won’t be the only Microsoft services that take advantage of ChatGPT. Bing, the company’s search engine, could also make use of this AI model developed by OpenAI to improve search results and thus compete against Google. Microsoft’s goal is to make GPT replace Bing’s responses via featured snippets of a post, with fuller, more “human” sentences.