How ChatGPT in Microsoft Office Could Change the Workplace | The Rhythm of AI
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[Updated by Editor Jan 9, 7:19 PM PT] Over the weekend, The Information reported that Microsoft is considering adding chatbot technology from OpenAI (currently ChatGPT, soon GPT-4) to its office productivity suite. technologies such as Word, Outlook and PowerPoint. And later that day, Semafor announced that Microsoft, which invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, is in talks to invest an additional $10 billion in the company.
Microsoft's newsfeed got me wondering: How could these apps on steroids, used by billions of businesses around the world, change the way we work? Especially once Google is fully in the game, integrating its own generative AI capabilities into Google Workspace? Will AI become as commonplace in our daily work life as the humble spreadsheet?
Much more than a new ClippyNews of the Office plans only broke days after Microsoft planned to integrate ChatGPT into its Bing search engine. But talking about ChatGPT's integration with Word had those of an earlier tech generation laughing immediately. Why? One word: Clippy.
Clippy, Microsoft's user interface agent that came with Microsoft Office in 1997 and was launched personally by Bill Gates, was a wide-eyed paperclip that popped up to say things like, "You look like you're writing a letter . Would you like some help?"
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look hereClippy was mostly hated and mocked for its annoying pop-ups. Time even named Clippy one of the worst inventions of all time. Clippy was gone entirely in 2007, though it was resurrected as a cultural icon as a retro sticker pack in Teams in 2021.
ChatGPT, of course, would be much more than a new Clippy: it could potentially do everything from generate text based on simple natural language prompts and suggest email responses to analyze data in Excel and translate text.
Tech investor Puneet Kumar called the possibility "crazy powerful" in a tweet, adding that it would "further deepen" Microsoft's moat in enterprise desktop technology:
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[Updated by Editor Jan 9, 7:19 PM PT] Over the weekend, The Information reported that Microsoft is considering adding chatbot technology from OpenAI (currently ChatGPT, soon GPT-4) to its office productivity suite. technologies such as Word, Outlook and PowerPoint. And later that day, Semafor announced that Microsoft, which invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, is in talks to invest an additional $10 billion in the company.
Microsoft's newsfeed got me wondering: How could these apps on steroids, used by billions of businesses around the world, change the way we work? Especially once Google is fully in the game, integrating its own generative AI capabilities into Google Workspace? Will AI become as commonplace in our daily work life as the humble spreadsheet?
Much more than a new ClippyNews of the Office plans only broke days after Microsoft planned to integrate ChatGPT into its Bing search engine. But talking about ChatGPT's integration with Word had those of an earlier tech generation laughing immediately. Why? One word: Clippy.
Clippy, Microsoft's user interface agent that came with Microsoft Office in 1997 and was launched personally by Bill Gates, was a wide-eyed paperclip that popped up to say things like, "You look like you're writing a letter . Would you like some help?"
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Learn about the essential role of AI and ML in cybersecurity and industry-specific case studies. Watch the on-demand sessions today.
look hereClippy was mostly hated and mocked for its annoying pop-ups. Time even named Clippy one of the worst inventions of all time. Clippy was gone entirely in 2007, though it was resurrected as a cultural icon as a retro sticker pack in Teams in 2021.
ChatGPT, of course, would be much more than a new Clippy: it could potentially do everything from generate text based on simple natural language prompts and suggest email responses to analyze data in Excel and translate text.
Tech investor Puneet Kumar called the possibility "crazy powerful" in a tweet, adding that it would "further deepen" Microsoft's moat in enterprise desktop technology:
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