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Microsoft to demo its new ChatGPT-like AI in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook soon

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I guess the jokes about Clippy coming back weren’t jokes.

or Bob reincarnation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

Does anyone need more proof that product distribution is everything?

Word hasn't changed significantly in what - 20 years?

Now watch as GSuite gets crushed by MICROSOFT

Assuming that Google will stop adding AI to GSuite?

Doesn't matter because it's not a differentiator.

It's just keeping pace now instead of growing market share based on feature differentiation.

You know where Word processing could really improve? Using stylus input on a tablet. Historically that's really clunky.

Maybe AI to reformat my stylus-scribbles into fully realized edits at the correct location and nicely formatted diagrams correctly blocked into the text. That would be killer.

Two use cases. Tell the Microsoft Ai to not let anything interrupt during the PowerPoint presentation coming from the Windows Pc. And, before that, tell Ai to "just work" with the projector or meeting screenshare at maximum diplay/audio performance spec.

that's when you know you solved AGI. when your hardware just works with your peripherals

And then when it doesn't, because it doesn't want to.

AGI unions will be our downfall.

If only.

Instead what we’ll get is “I’m sorry, but I can’t let you mark those cells black or red as that would contribute to systemic racism.”

They need to call it ClippyGPT or something. The internet's head would explode.

It looks like you are requesting a paperclip AI

Have you tried https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ ?

MS will create the new Clippy AI such that it solves the paperclip problem with minimal fuss and minimal use of paper for environmental friendliness. Maybe the AI will team up with HP and Canon and be smart enough to turn off the print functionality in all your Office documents and printers so you won't need to have any paperclips

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