Can AI Help People? How Bing, Google, and Compose are Exploring Artificial Intelligence to Help People Flow Through an Overstuffed Inbox

Google is expected to announce artificial intelligence integrations for the company’s search engine on February 8 at 8:30 am Eastern. It’s free to watch live on YouTube.

For a long time, Microsoft’s Bing was a distant competitor to the online search leader, GOOGLE. Microsoft, an OpenAI investor, plans to weave generative AI into its search engine in an effort to differentiate the experience from Google and attract more users. Will this be a great year for Bing? Users can expect to see more text created by artificial intelligence, as they use their search engine of choice.

You may be familiar with AI text and AI images, but these mediums are only the starting point for generative AI. As a result of its research, a lot more is being shared about the possibilities for artificial intelligence audio and video. There are plenty of startups in Silicon Valley that are vying for attention and investment windfalls as mainstream uses for large language models emerge.

Will major email providers, like Gmail and Outlook, roll out additional AI-powered features to help you breeze through an overstuffed inbox? Aparna Pappu, a vice president and general manager of the company, talks about how the company uses artificial intelligence to help people. Her statement to WIRED is in the same vein as the messages coming from Google on the topic of generative AI: excited but cautious.

Email is one the least authentic forms of communication. The stock phrases and courtesy replies are very funny. Is it possible that this email finds me well? Machine learning has been used in Gmail for a few years to predict what you are likely to type next. Newer companies, like Compose AI, might enable people to further rely on autocomplete functions while sending emails.

You already want to type, so you don’t need autocompletion to do that. It’s just going to accelerate it,” says Michael Shuffett, a founder and CEO of Compose AI. Large blocks of text generated by models like Openai are popular but smaller snippets created by autocomplete are easier to control. It’s akin to riding a tandem bike with a robot versus letting it ride your bike alone at night after giving a one-sentence command. The first option requires more effort, but you’re more likely to reach your intended destination together.