Microsoft is looking into building OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology into its Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook programs.
ChatGPT is a chatbot introduced to the public in November that “interacts in a conversational way”.
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT can “answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
Microsoft invested A$1.45 billion into OpenAI in 2019, striking an exclusive license to use the technology.
It is already using the underlying GPT-3 technology throughout its entire suite of products: in its auto-suggest and grammar check functions in Word and PowerPoint; to tinker with audio acoustics and reduce room echo in Teams; and to autocomplete code.
“AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows,” Panos Panay, Microsoft’s Windows and Surface chief, announced on stage at CES last week.
