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Google offers the AI-powered magic wand

Google offers the AI-powered magic wand

By م.زهير الشاعر

Published: March 15, 2023

Alphabet's Google revealed on Tuesday a set of artificial intelligence tools for its email services, collaborative software, and cloud services.

In a renewed competition between two tech giants, where each revealed a chatbot last month, Alphabet described its famous "Google Docs" program as a "magic wand" that can draft a marketing blog or a training plan or other texts and then review its style according to user assessment, as confirmed by a company official to journalists.

At the same time, Microsoft announced an event on Thursday about the extent of "innovation in generative AI," during which it is expected to reveal the competing document processor "Word".

Alphabet also said its new AI tool would be able to summarize email topics in the "Gmail" service, draft slide presentations, customize customer communication, and take meeting notes as part of its update of "Google Workspace" software, a product suite that includes billions of users on free and paid accounts.

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said in a press briefing, "This next phase gives the human element support from a collaborative AI tool, which operates in real time."

Alphabet allows trusted testers to access the new "Workspace" features on a rotational basis throughout the year before a broader launch, much like it and Microsoft did in the gradual rollout of chatbot programs.

Kurian declined to disclose the cost of the most advanced version of "Workspace" for businesses or individuals.

Kurian emphasized that Google remains "deeply committed to responsible AI," setting controls for clients and reviewing the proper use of its products.

Other Tools from "Google"

Google also revealed a set of generative AI tools for cloud computing customers, for example, the language model (PaLM), one of its most powerful large language models that generates human-like texts.

According to Google, customers can fine-tune its AI model using their own data while retaining ownership of information and benefits.

Google aims for its AI programs to bring a "transformation" in the work of marketing employees, lawyers, scientists, and teachers.

The company, headquartered in Mountain View, California, announced a partnership between its high-level AI research lab MidJourney and Google to provide cloud infrastructure including TPU chips.

The pace of the announcement of generative AI programs from Microsoft so far has surpassed that of Alphabet, which fears societal harm in addition to damage to its reputation as a reliable source of information.

An error made by Alphabet's chatbot "Bard" in a demonstration last month contributed to a $100 billion drop in its market value; nevertheless, Microsoft undertook the auditing itself when its chatbot "Bing" issued expressions of love or threats to users in a trial phase.

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