Microsoft is said to be working on integrating ChatGPT into Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The software should help in Outlook with replies to emails and searches, among other things. In PowerPoint, Microsoft would like to work with the Dall-E picture generator, also from OpenAI.
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Microsoft employees have given CEO Satya Nadella a demonstration of integrating the techniques into Microsoft software, but it’s unknown if the company will actually build it, reports The Information. It is therefore still unknown if and when integration of the services will be available in Office software. Last week it appeared that Microsoft wants to integrate ChatGPT in search engine Bing. Microsoft can get started with that, because it has access to the software as an investor in OpenAI.
Microsoft is concerned, among other things, with the accuracy of the software. ChatGPT is a large language model and can therefore not estimate whether information contained in its own texts is true, so that the chatbot often presents nonsense and pretends that it is really true. Microsoft will also have to deal with privacy, because the functionality depends on data from users themselves about, for example, their own language use.
The article lists several examples. For example, Outlook must be able to write an email based on a prompt, for example: ‘notify my colleagues that I am ill’. In Word, ChatGPT can help complete words and sentences. PowerPoint is all about Dall-E integration to let the AI create illustrations based on commands.