Google Workspace doesn't really need AI, but you're getting it anyway

Date:
Wed, 10 May 2023 19:01:38 +0000

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At this rate, there might not be any "analog" collaboration tools left soon, and that's not good.

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Google has followed the herd and announced a host of new artificial intelligence (AI) expansion for its is coming to its collaboration tool for enterprise.

The tech giant announced the new Google Workspace feature set, which includes the ability to draft new content and refine existing work in Google Docs ,
and gives Google Slides the opportunity to generate images from text prompts.

However given that Microsoft has had their finger in this pie since March
2023 , and has just announced a similar text-to-image tool for PowerPoint , its hard for us to get especially excited about any of this - for now. (Image credit: Google) Googles collaborative AI

Everyones at it, which is good, I suppose - youre not beholden to one
provider if youre dying to use the latest tech gimmick. I just wish tech companies remembered that theyre supposed to have original ideas.

But in lieu of that, have this - Google Sheets will now - yawn - analyze and provide actionable insights into your data, with automated data
classification and the creation of custom plans. (Image credit: Google)

At the center of this is - yep - AI that can understand the context of your data beyond just the content of a cell. A new help me organize function will, even though youre an adult, generate a comprehensive to-do list based on the homework you need your mums help with.

Docs wont just do your work for you (including grammatically correct, professional-grade in French, Spanish, Japanese and more) - itll use its proprietary smart chip technology to help personalize it, so now you can,
say, entice bright, inspired job applicants into your web until you finally break it to them gently that the machines are running the place. Read more

Google reveals its AI-powered security rival to Microsoft Security Copilot

Google wants to make an AI-powered GitHub competitor

W eve also listed the best AI tools right now

Places like gig economy bandwagoner Lyft, that wrote, or had a computer
write, without any sense of irony, that [Lyft] is excited [!] to test out the new generative Workplace experiences [!!].

Google deigns to assure us that it continues to believe in the ingenuity of real people, characterizing its AIs work as suggestions. Its all a bit Gizmo has gone to live on a farm with her other dog friends to me, but at least, if youre an IT admin, youre being given the policy power to make the hurting stop. Heres our list of the best free office software right now



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