Google releases new AI features in its productivity apps

Google is gearing up to release a set of new functionalities that will enhance its users’ experience in the US. Initially available only to trusted testers, the new features will eventually be accessible to all users by the end of this year.

The new functionalities will be integrated into popular Google applications such as Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides.

For instance, Google Docs users will benefit from an intuitive interface that grants easy access to AI tools for various tasks, including summarizing, brainstorming, and discussion as they write their piece. Gmail users, on the other hand, can take advantage of AI’s contextual understanding to generate full emails from brief bullet points.

With Slides, users can easily create compelling multimedia presentations by generating images, audio, and video on the fly.

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Google has provided a sneak peek into the upcoming features that will soon be available for all its users. These features are aimed at enhancing the productivity and creativity of the users. Let’s have a look at them:

1. Gmail: Soon, users will be able to draft, reply, summarize, and prioritize their emails more efficiently using the upcoming features.
2. Docs: Google Docs will now offer advanced features like brainstorming, proofreading, writing, and rewriting. These features are aimed at improving the quality and accuracy of the documents.
3. Slides: The new Slides feature will allow users to bring their creative vision to life by using auto-generated images, audio, and video. This feature will be a boon for those who rely heavily on visual aids for presentations.
4. Sheets: With auto-completion, formula generation, and contextual categorization, Sheets will help users to generate new insights and analysis from raw data.
5. Meet: The upcoming feature of Meet will enable users to capture notes and also generate new backgrounds for video calls.
6. Chat: The new Chat feature will enable users to create workflows that will help them get things done more efficiently.

The Future: Enhancements with Generative AI and Human Feedback

The future of Workspace is about to become even brighter, as Google unveiled their latest AI-based capabilities that continually improve with human feedback. Following this, they claim they will refine and improve these features further before making them available to a wider audience of consumers, small businesses, enterprises, and educational institutions in numerous countries and languages.