Google Brings Its Generative AI to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat and Slides

Google is integrating its generative AI into Workspace. And the promise of Mountain View is already great.

Google has been trying to catch up with OpenAI for months now, especially since the latter took their ChatGPT chatbot to the deep end and caused a huge tidal wave in the generative AI industry. Mountain View’s first response, the launch of AI Bard, was very timid with misinformation and too little detail from the giant. So today the American giant is on the attack: it integrates its artificial intelligence wherever possible into its products, as it was in the days of Google+ with social features.

Google integrates its generative AI into Workspace

These new features will appear across all Google Workspace products. According to the company, users will be able to “draft, summarize and prioritize” emails, “brainstorm, proofread, write and rewrite” text documents, automatically generate images and even videos using slides, view spreadsheets, create formulas on their own, automate transcriptions in Meet and “activate processes to complete tasks”in chat.

For example, in Docs, a user can simply select the topic of their task on the page to see how Google’s generative AI tools add text. The system can also rework (and hopefully improve) what the user has already written, even if it’s just ideas, thanks to the overwrite feature. Gmail also has a new “I’m Lucky”option that your company’s HR department should love.

And the promise of Mountain View is already great.

After the Bard debacle, Google persists and reaffirms its will to make sure its IA doesn’t become like Microsoft’s. “Artificial intelligence will not replace the ingenuity, creativity and intelligence of real people,”said Joanna Vulich Wright, vice president of products for Google Workspace. “Sometimes the AI ​​can do things wrong, sometimes it gives you something mind-blowing, and sometimes you have to guide it.” To do this, the company develops its products within its artificial intelligence principles. This new AI-powered Workspace is expected to reach English-speaking users in the US by the end of the month. Other languages ​​and other countries will follow.