by atMicrosoftAfter announcing that it would add OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to its Bing search engine in a bid to attract users from rival Google, Microsoft now has bigger plans for the artificial intelligence chatbot, reports The Information.
“The Information” cites multiple sources as saying that Microsoft is currently in talks to bring ChatGPT functionality to “Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other applications, so that users can fill out documents with large amounts of automatically generated text based on prompts. This can also Includes AI-generated emails, written for users based on what they want to communicate with their recipients.
However, in order to introduce it successfully, there are many problems to be solved besides the accuracy. Since ChatGPT was launched, it has often produced results that sounded correct but were actually incorrect in some respects, in part because it did not continuously scrape the internet for news or updates.
If Microsoft introduces AI text-generating tools that provide false or offensive information, this could keep customers from using them in the future.
Another concern is privacy, as AI models need to be securely tailored to individual customers. Microsoft has been working on GPT-3 and GPT-4 privacy-preserving methods that could work in this way, and the former has already seen some success in Microsoft products, one of the sources said.
