A demonstration on the integration of ChatGPT into the Office office suite (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) is expected very soon, a sign of Microsoft’s eagerness to move forward quickly.
We said it: Microsoft intends to integrate ChatGPT everywhere. In its Bing search engine, in its Edge web browser, but also in its other software, starting with its office suite. According to recent information from The Vergeshared on February 10, 2023, a demonstration in Word, PowerPoint and Outlook is planned for the near future.
It would only be a matter of weeks (we are talking about the month of March) before we can see this conversational agent at work, according to sources consulted by the American media. More precisely, it is a customized version of ChatGPT which is mobilized – this one is based on a model called Prometheus, already deployed for the new Bing and the new Edge.
Microsoft has invested billions in the creator of ChatGPT
The integration of ChatGPT in Office will not surprise those who follow the latest news around artificial intelligence. In January, we learned of a colossal investment ($10 billion) from Microsoft in OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot. A financial effort that illustrates the shift that the software giant is taking in AI.
Earlier still, the press was buzzing with certain projects around productivity, which would use OpenAI tools. Already at the time, there was talk of pushing the chatbot into the messaging client (Outlook), word processing (Word) and presentation (PowerPoint) of the American group. In short, there would be almost nothing left to write, just to give (prompt) instructions.
We can already guess what the advances of such an association would be: better research in e-mails, translation of text on the fly, suggestions for finishing letters or documents, proposals for improvement in the turns of phrase or the vocabulary, a summary of a work of several pages, the creation of lists, graphs or tables on the fly, etc.
Microsoft’s eagerness around the themes of artificial intelligence comes from several reasons: first there is a rivalry with Google and the concern of not being too far behind on a front on which other giants of the tech are deployed or will soon be mobilized. There is also the prospect of weakening the Mountain View firm in its favorite field, online research. Then there is also the observation that the public has given ChatGPT a warm welcome, taking a close interest in it, despite its shortcomings and limitations.
Moreover, according to our colleagues, Microsoft rather intended initially to launch its new Bing at the end of February. However, the schedule has been reorganized to ensure a launch from the week of February 6. Aim: to compete with Google’s own ads (Bard, a competing chatbot that works with LaMDA) — which ended up being rather disappointing in this regard.
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