Microsoft finds itself more than ever cuddling up to OpenAI’s shoulder. After Redmond’s billion-dollar investment in the startup and the future integration of ChatGPT in Bing, this is not a big surprise either. The technology company is now experimenting with the linguistic model to integrate it with Word, PowerPoint, Excel y Outlook.
According to The Information, Microsoft has already incorporated it into Word to improve the autocomplete function and generate text through simple instructions. However, it is undeniable that the company still has a long way to go. Engineers and developers are working hard to create tools for writing e-mails and documents using artificial intelligence. However, it is not clear that Microsoft will launch these new features for the time being.
Thanks to ChatGPT’s integration with the Office suite, we could see our workflow become even more streamlined. For example, Outlook could be able to compose entire emails through simple prompts from us. However, Microsoft faces a number of challenges that it must address, such as ChatGPT’s tendency to present erroneous information in some cases. This would make it very difficult to create documents, for example.
Another major hurdle is privacy. Microsoft will have to customize the generative models used to make them work without compromising user data. For the time being, the Xbox owner is working on the development of models based on GPT-3 and GPT-4 that preserve the privacy of those who use them.
The truth is that the technology developed by OpenAI opens up many possibilities. Its models could be used to transcribe Microsoft Teams meetings, transfer data to PowerPoint presentations and, in turn, integrate images generated by DALL-E 2. However, for the moment it is all just wishful thinking: we do not know when we will see this type of functionality in Microsoft applications and it seems that we will have to wait a while yet.
