If Microsoft builds in the capability seen in ChatGPT, the conversational AI that made news last year, Outlook might create complete emails based on basic requests. Consider Outlook sending an email to your coworkers explaining why you’re ill based just on a “send an email to my team explaining why I’m out sick” inquiry. Microsoft is also said to be working on a version of Bing that will employ ChatGPT to answer search requests. This new function, designed to make Bing more competitive with Google, might be ready as early as March.
When it comes to delivering more powerful AI text-generation tools to its productivity applications, Microsoft will confront several obstacles. The most important of them is accuracy. ChatGPT continues to show false information as truth, making any sort of document generation or sophisticated integration problematic.
