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Microsoft is holding back another big move. ChatGPT may be integrated into Office, and Google will break the defense twice in a week. Netizen: the future PPT depends on you.

Breaking news! Is ChatGPT going to be integrated into Office?

One is the "Deep-Fried Chicken" in the AI language model, and the other is the basic office software used by more than a billion people around the world and opened by people all over the world every day.

So, the good day of lying down and asking AI to help us with our papers and PPT is coming?

Google: tired, destroy OpenAI one month after the release of ChatGPT, Google's attitude changed from being indifferent at first to trembling. The leadership of Google, which made a big alarm, directly released the "code red".

It wasn't long before Microsoft delivered a blow to Google by announcing that it would integrate ChatGPT into its own search engine, Bing Bing.

Moreover, before Google can catch its breath, according to people familiar with the matter, Microsoft is about to give Google a "double blow"-Microsoft plans to add ChatGPT and other AI to Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and other software.

This move is likely to be a revolutionary step.

From then on, the way 1 billion people write documents, presentations and emails may be changed forever.

Covertly collaborate and amaze everyone Microsoft has discussed adding OpenAI artificial intelligence to Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and other applications so that users can automatically generate text with simple prompts, according to people familiar with the matter.

Imagine that when you need to ask for leave, as long as you type the words "write a sick leave email", Outlook will be able to write the formal request for leave in a second and click send.

Although the idea is beautiful, but in fact, it is not easy to achieve this goal.

For more than a year, Microsoft engineers and researchers have been working on creating personalized AI tools for writing emails and documents.

Customization enables AI to understand words that have a unique meaning for an individual or company, such as a specific individual's name / terms with a specific meaning, a specific workplace, and allows A to better parse emails and draft documents and make writing suggestions accordingly.

OpenAI, acquired by Microsoft, happens to have a lot of machine learning models.

As a result, Microsoft engineers developed new methods to train these models on customer data.

In this regard, Microsoft can be said to have been planning for a long time, playing a big game of chess.

In 2019, Microsoft signed an agreement with OpenAI to work on new technologies.

Later, however, both companies were tight-lipped about how to implement and commercialize the new technology.

The only sign of cooperation is that Microsoft released Copilot, a programmer's favorite coding artifact, last year, which uses OpenAI technology.

In addition, last October, Microsoft integrated Open AI's Dall E 2 into Bing's image creation tool. Some older versions of GPT have also been incorporated into Bing in a variety of ways, such as suggestions that automatically appear in the search box when people type keywords.

Only recently did we know that Microsoft was holding back a big move.

Last Tuesday, Microsoft suddenly announced plans to integrate ChatGPT into its own search engine Bing Bing, challenging Google's overwhelming lead in search engines.

According to Microsoft's plan, this ambitious project will be officially launched by the end of March this year. At that time, the search engine will answer the complete sentence directly to the user.

Start the revolution of office software with AI? According to Microsoft employees, Microsoft has more ambitious plans to use AI to improve productivity.

It is reported that Microsoft will incorporate OpenAI technology into its own Office family bucket (Microsoft 365).

In fact, Microsoft has long been trying to integrate all versions of OpenAI's GPT language understanding model into Outlook so that Outlook users can provide more useful search results when they find information in their inboxes.

With the GPT feature, Outlook can know which emails customers may be searching for, even if users don't enter the exact keywords in the relevant emails.

In addition, Microsoft executives and researchers recently studied how Outlook and Word use GPT to automatically respond to emails or improve users' writing, such as where to change and where to delete.

Microsoft plans to use OpenAl's technology to create chatbot-style programs in Word and Outlook that are similar to OpenAl's "top-stream" ChatGPT and can be prompted to write a complete set of text, according to people familiar with the matter.

Compared with the services currently offered by Microsoft and Google, the new features brought about by chat robots will make a big change, perhaps a revolutionary leap.

ChatGPT also answered what happens when GPT-4 is added to Microsoft 365.

1. Improved language generation

GPT-4 is a very powerful language model that can be used to improve the language generation capabilities of Microsoft applications. This may include features such as automatic summarization, content suggestions, and even automatic text completion.

two。 Email assistance

GPT-4 can be used to improve the email assistance capabilities of Outlook. For example, the model can suggest responses to e-mails based on the contents of the e-mail, or it can help with tasks such as scheduling meetings or arranging trips.

3. Data analysis

GPT-4 can be used to help users analyze the data in Excel. The model can suggest charts or graphs based on the data, or it can provide suggestions based on the data.

4. Translation

GPT-4 can be used to improve the translation capabilities of Microsoft applications, such as Word or PowerPoint. This makes it easier for users to work with multilingual files or presentations.

In general, the use of GPT-4 makes it easier and more efficient for users to complete a variety of tasks related to language processing, data analysis, and e-mail.

Missed the tuyere, but not completely. For Microsoft CEO Satyanadra (Satya Nadella), building a deep connection with OpenAI is part of Microsoft AI's plan to get rich.

Microsoft will earn more revenue from AI tools in the coming years, with AI tools added to Word, Outlook, Teams and Windows operating systems, according to people familiar with Nadella's plans.

However, it was not Microsoft's intention to develop artificial intelligence. Just a few years ago, Office team leaders saw AI as a scourge, said Pedro Domingos, a machine learning researcher who knows Microsoft.

AAAI Fellow, Pedro Domingos, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington

Domingos said that if Microsoft had faced up to the importance of AI a few years ago, they might have had more opportunities. But the leadership at the time was "worried that people might not have much enthusiasm for artificial intelligence".

However, the popularity of the GPT-3 model and the popularity of ChatGPT may be the key reasons for persuading Microsoft to "finally make a leap".

Word: I'm actually already using it. In fact, shortly after Microsoft first invested in OpenAI, the Word team became interested in using the OpenAI model to improve word processing software.

The team took a fancy to GPT, OpenAI's flagship text processing model. In their view, GPT can be used as a helper to generate or proofread people's writing, and can be used to upgrade artificial intelligence models developed internally by Microsoft.

How does OpenAI's model enhance the application's ability to understand and summarize? How to correct grammatical errors and give clearer grammatical suggestions? The Word team has been keeping an eye on these capabilities of the OpenAI model.

In fact, Microsoft has quietly integrated GPT into some of the functions of Word, such as Word's autocomplete function. With this feature, when the user types, Word will give a prediction of the complete sentence.

Currently, Microsoft is studying how to integrate a higher version of GPT, that is, the unreleased GPT-4, into Word.

Although Microsoft's own artificial intelligence software Turing also focuses on text understanding, compared with GPT, its advantages are in different areas.

Turing is mainly used to read large chunks of text, collect and summarize its potential meaning. The advantage of GPT, by contrast, is text generation, that is, writing new text at prompts.

If Microsoft can really integrate GPT-4 into office software, it is hard to imagine how fast our office efficiency will be in the future.

I'm afraid that by then, there will be no Doge for fishing.

However, the technology of OpenAI is far from perfect, and Microsoft will face many challenges when using it.

The first is ChatGPT. Early users of the model quickly noticed that it tends to confidently give the wrong answer, and ChatGPT knows little about the latest information and findings.

Altman himself admitted in a tweet last month that ChatGPT's ability to "create a great illusion" was "very limited" and that "you can't rely on it to do anything important right now." "

In addition, OpenAI's GPT technology has aroused controversy in academic circles. Many scholars and researchers have warned that ChatGPT is likely to "kill" college papers. Recently, the New York City Department of Education officially banned ChatGPT.

Another reason Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott prevents Microsoft from using more AI models is how to complete customized artificial intelligence services without compromising users' privacy.

Microsoft researchers have been developing an AI model training method to protect users' privacy and apply it to the training of GPT-3 and future GPT-4.

However, according to reports submitted to Nadella and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, researchers have made initial progress in training GPT-3 's privacy protection.

Reference:

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This article comes from the official account of Wechat: Xin Zhiyuan (ID:AI_era)

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