‘Microsoft is working on ChatGPT integration in Word, PowerPoint and Outlook’

Microsoft is said to be working on integrating ChatGPT into Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. The software should help Outlook, among other things, with replies to emails and searches. In PowerPoint, Microsoft would like to work with image generator Dall-E, also from OpenAI.

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Microsoft employees have given CEO Satya Nadella a demonstration of the integration of the techniques into Microsoft software, but it is unknown whether 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 emerged that Microsoft wants to integrate ChatGPT into the Bing search engine. Microsoft can get started with this because, as an investor in OpenAI, it has access to the software.

Microsoft is concerned, among other things, with the accuracy of the software. ChatGPT is a large language model and therefore cannot estimate whether information contained in its own texts is true, so the chatbot often presents nonsense and pretends that it is really true. Microsoft will also have to deal with privacy issues, because the functionality depends on data from users themselves, for example about their own language use.

The article mentions several examples. For example, Outlook must be able to write an email based on a prompt, for example: ‘inform my colleagues that I am ill’. In Word, ChatGPT can help complete words and sentences. PowerPoint involves Dall-E integration to allow the AI ​​to create illustrations based on commands.