{"id":483963,"date":"2023-03-15T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=483963"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:19:14","slug":"google-launches-generative-ai-across-apps-and-development-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/483963-google-launches-generative-ai-across-apps-and-development-tools.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches ChatGPT-like tools in Gmail and Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out various generative AI features and capabilities in its software development, research, cloud, and Workspace apps.<\/p>\n<p>The big integration of AI into the company&#8217;s products was announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/ai\/ai-developers-google-cloud-workspace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>blog post<\/strong> <\/a>by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.<\/p>\n<p>General users of Google software will see the benefit from the generative AI enhancements in the Workspace productivity apps.<\/p>\n<p>Google said that generative AI would be able to do the following in Workspace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Draft, reply, summarise, and prioritize your Gmail<\/li>\n<li>Brainstorm, proofread, write, and rewrite in Docs<\/li>\n<li>Create auto-generate images, audio, and video in Slides<\/li>\n<li>Go from raw data to insights and analysis via auto-completion, formula generation, and contextual categorization in Sheets<\/li>\n<li>Generate new backgrounds and capture notes in Meet<\/li>\n<li>enable workflows for getting things done in Chat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first set of features will be aimed at helping users write up documents or emails in Google Docs and Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>With the &#8220;Help me write&#8221; feature, users can generate a draft document or email that can replicate various styles \u2014 including job postings or invitations for birthdays.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gmail-draft-using-generative-AI-new.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-483985\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gmail-draft-using-generative-AI-new.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gmail-draft-using-generative-AI-new.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gmail-draft-using-generative-AI-new-600x376.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gmail-draft-using-generative-AI-new-800x501.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gmail-draft-using-generative-AI-new-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;Rewrite&#8221; feature will let you generate a polished document from structured data \u2014 like a bullet point list on important topics discussed during a meeting \u2014 using the &#8220;Formalise&#8221; option.<\/p>\n<p>Selecting &#8220;Elaborate&#8221; will allow the generative AI to expand upon the information, &#8220;Shorten&#8221; will condense it, and &#8220;Bulletise&#8221; will list the most important elements from the text.<\/p>\n<p>Users who want to adjust the document&#8217;s tone can also select the &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling lucky&#8221; option.<\/p>\n<p>Google emphasized it would allow users to retain control over the content by letting them accept or edit the changes the AI made to the original text.<\/p>\n<p>The company will initially make these features available to testers in the US before rolling them out publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Other new Google products with generative AI capabilities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PaLM API<\/strong>, a new developer offering that makes it easy and safe to experiment with Google&#8217;s large language models. Alongside the API, we&#8217;re releasing MakerSuite, a tool that lets developers start prototyping quickly and easily.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Generative AI support added to Vertex AI<\/strong>, offering a simple way for data science teams to take advantage of foundation models like PaLM. Includes the ability for businesses to address use cases such as content generation and chat summarisation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Generative AI App Builder<\/strong>, which allows organizations to build their own AI-powered chat interfaces and digital assistants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/483795-disney-wants-google-and-reddit-to-reveal-leaker-who-posted-ant-man-3-script-month-before-release.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Disney wants Google and Reddit to reveal leaker who posted Ant-Man 3 script month before release<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among an array of new AI features, Google Docs and Gmail are getting text writing and editing assistance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":483991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,84939,407,167,4552,66981,84211,4598],"class_list":["post-483963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-generative-ai","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-google-docs","tag-google-workspace","tag-language-models","tag-thomas-kurian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484025,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483963\/revisions\/484025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}