Google announces new AI features in its productivity apps

Google has announced that it is rolling out some AI-assisted features in some of its productivity apps. The rollout isn’t global, however, as the company says these features will only be made available to trusted testers in the US, similar to its Bard chatbot. But the new features will reach all users by the end of this year.

These features will be implemented in Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets and Slides. Inside Docs, for example, the interface will bring easy access to AI so you can discuss, summarize or brainstorm while you write your article. In Gmail, the AI ​​can grab context from brief dots and write an entire email. And like slides, you can generate images, audio, and video on the fly so you can make a better presentation.

Google has highlighted some of the features that will soon reach all Google users.

• Compose, reply, summarize and prioritize your Gmail
• Think, proofread, write, and rewrite in Docs
• Bring your creative vision to life with auto-generated images, audio, and video in Slides
• Go from raw data to insights and analytics through auto-completion, formula generation, and contextual categorization in Sheets
• Generate new backgrounds and capture notes in Meet
• Enable workflows to get things done in Chat

You can even choose the tone of writing to best suit the occasion, use AI to help you with a draft based on a certain topic, summarize long chain emails to save time, proofread or even rewrite your document.