A new feature is being added to the Edge browser. (Source: Microsoft)
Microsoft is incorporating more and more AI functions into its own Edge browser. That’s how you can already Interact with the ChatGPT-based Bing Chat in the sidebar, translate texts using AI or use a simple spelling aid.
Preview version offers AI Writing
But soon it will even be possible to have entire texts on a website rewritten using Edge’s artificial intelligence. Several writing styles and a desired text length are available in order to adapt the copied paragraph to your own needs.
The technology for this is based on the AI language model GPT-4 from ChatGPT and Bing AI and offers similar settings to that Compose
-Edge sidebar box. The new feature AI Writing
However, it can be used entirely via a website insteadHow Window Latest reported.
Currently only for a small user group in the Canary version
The new AI writing tool AI Writing
can quickly generate text ideas in styles such as professional, enthusiastic or informative. It is currently only being tested with a small group of users in the Canary version of Chromium Edge, so not all users of the preview version will have access to this new feature.
Microsoft’s AI Writer is used in a text field (Source: Windows Latest)
The function is activated in the settings under Writing help
via the button Use online writing help
. Now texts can be selected in the text fields and via the context menu entry Rewrite
simply be reformulated.
In addition to the writing style options already mentioned, there are also different formats such as Paragraph
, e-mail
or Blog post
. The length of the AI-generated text is also available via the selection options short
, medium
or long
selectable.
What do you think of the new AI writing feature in Microsoft Edge? Will you try it out as soon as it is available in the standard German version of Edge or are you already using the preview version of the browser? Or do you use another web browser such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox and therefore have to do without this feature for the time being? We’d love to hear your opinion in the comments!
