Microsoft now wants to add ChatGPT to Word, email

Ready or not, here it comes

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

Microsoftis reportedly in discussions to bringOpenAI’sAI writerChatGPT toMicrosoft Officeas part of an effort to modernise theoffice softwaresuite.

The news, courtesy ofThe Informationvia two insiders at Microsoft, comes afterTechRadar Prorecentlyreportedthat the company is looking to bring OpenAI’sChatGPTto itsBingsearch engine for web browsers.

Plans to bring ChatGPT’s text-generation capabilities to “Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and other apps” follow another stalled attempt to implement AI tools that use OpenAI’s machine-learned language models into Office to generate emails and documents.

Microsoft, ChatGPT, and the future

According to the insiders, Microsoft wants to leverage ChatGPT to “provide more useful search results when Outlook email customers look for information in their inboxes.”

“For instance, GPT has the ability to figure out what emails the customer might be searching for even if they don’t type the exact keywords that are in the relevant emails.”

Moving forward, it’s expected that Microsoft will want ChatGPT to write e-mail replies, rewrite documents for clarity, and produce entire documents according to prompts, similar to how ChatGPT currently works.

ChatGPT is being used to create malicious emails and code

Hackers could exploit ChatGPT to attack networks

Check out our list of the best productivity tools right now>Opinion: why ChatGPT may not lead to redundancy

ChatGPT has created a culture of fear in its recent rise to prominence, as the world speculates what it might be capable of, despite limited evidence that it’s anywhere near ready.

Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!

Googleexecutives are concerned about itsinaccuracy, and educators are worried it willbreak an already broken system, but even Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, says thatChatGPT is unreliable, and at most a proof-of-concept at this stage.

It’s entirely possible that Microsoft may have big plans in mind for ChatGPT and other products driven by OpenAI’s GPT language model, but as yet, there’s no fixed estimate for when they might become a reality.

There’s a reason why ChatGPT is currently marked as a “free research preview”, and peppered with warnings that it “may occasionally generate incorrect information”, “harmful instructions or biased content”. It’s not there yet.

And until it is, instead of chasing the tails of insiders and how companies may or may not end up leveraging nascent technology, maybe we would all benefit from doing something else with our lives until ChatGPT is at the point not just where it can impress us, but that it’s also readily applicable to different aspects of our lives.

Luke Hughes holds the role of Staff Writer at TechRadar Pro, producing news, features and deals content across topics ranging from computing to cloud services, cybersecurity, data privacy and business software.

7 myths about email security everyone should stop believing

Best Usenet client of 2024

Google TV will require more RAM for future upgrades – which might leave older TVs and streaming boxes behind