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Microsoft is reportedly in talks to bring in OpenAI’s AI writer ChatGPT Microsoft Office as part of an effort to office software suite.
The news, thanks to The information (opens in new tab) via two insiders at Microsoft, comes next Tech Radar Pro recently reported that the company wants to bring OpenAI’s ChatGPT to its Bing web browser search engine.
Plans to bring ChatGPT’s text generation capabilities to “Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other apps” follow another failed attempt to deploy AI tools that use OpenAI’s machine-learned language models in Office to generate emails and documents.
Microsoft, ChatGPT and the future
According to the insiders, Microsoft wants to use ChatGPT to “provide more useful search results when Outlook email customers search for information in their inboxes.”
“For example, GPT has the ability to find out what emails the customer is searching for, even if they don’t type in the exact keywords that are in the relevant emails.”
Going forward, Microsoft is expected to want ChatGPT to write email replies, rewrite documents for clarity, and produce full documents according to directions, similar to how ChatGPT currently works.
ChatGPT has created a culture of fear in its recent rise to prominence, as the world speculates what it might be capable of, despite limited evidence that it is close to being ready.
Google executives are concerned about that inaccuracyand educators fear this will happen break an already broken systembut even Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, says so ChatGPT is unreliable (opens in new tab)and at most a proof-of-concept at this stage.
It’s entirely possible that Microsoft has big plans in mind for ChatGPT and other products powered by OpenAI’s GPT language model, but so far there’s no firm estimate for when they might become a reality.
There’s a reason why ChatGPT is currently marked as a “Free Research Preview”, and peppered with warnings that it “may occasionally generate incorrect information”, “malicious instructions or biased content”. It’s not there yet.
And until it does, instead of chasing insiders’ tails and how companies may or may not take advantage of burgeoning technology, perhaps we’d all benefit from doing something different with our lives until ChatGPT isn’t just on the point is that it can impress us, but that it is also easily applicable to different aspects of our lives.