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APARNA PAPPU: From the very beginning,
Workspace was built to allow you to collaborate in real time
with other people.
Now, you can collaborate in real time with AI.
AI can act as a coach, a thought partner,
a source of inspiration, as well as
a productivity booster across all of the apps of Workspace.
Our first steps with AI as a collaborator
were via the Help me write feature in Gmail and Docs
which launched to trusted testers in March.
We've been truly blown away by the clever and creative ways
these features are being used from writing essays, sales
pitches, project plans, client outreach, and so much more.
Since then, we've been busy expanding
these helpful features across more surfaces.
Let me show you a few examples.
One of our most popular use cases
is the trusty job description.
Every business, big or small, needs to hire people.
A good job description can make all the difference.
Here's how Docs has been helping.
Say you run a fashion boutique and need
to hire a textile designer.
To get started, you enter just a few words
as a prompt, senior level job description
for textile designer.
Docs will take that prompt, send it to our PaLM 2 based model,
and let's see what I got back.
Not bad.
With just seven words, the model came back
with a good starting point written out really
nicely for me.
Now, you can take that and customize it
for the kind of experience, education, and skill set
that this role needs, saving you a ton of time and effort.
Next.
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Let me show you how you can get more organized with Sheets.
Imagine you run a dog walking business,
and need to keep track of things like your clients, logistics
about the dogs, like what time they need to be walked,
for how long, et cetera.
Sheets can help you get organized.
In a new sheet, simply type something
like client and pet roster for a dog walking business
with rates, and hit Create.
Sheets sends this input to a fined tune model
that we've been training with all sorts of sheet specific use
cases.
Look at that.
The model--
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The model figured out what you might need.
The generated table has things like the dog's name,
client info, notes, et cetera.
This is a good start for you to tinker with.
Sheets made it easy for you to get
started so you can go back to doing what you love.
Speaking of getting back to things
you love, let's talk about Google Slides.
People use Slides for storytelling
all the time whether at work or in their personal lives.
For example, you get your extended family
to collect anecdotes, haikus, jokes for your parents
50th wedding anniversary in a slide deck.
Everyone does their bit, but maybe this deck
could have more pizzazz.
Let's pick one of the slides and use the poem on there
as a prompt for image generation.
Mom loves her pizza cheesy and true,
while dad's favorite treat is a warm pot of fondue.
Let's hit Create and see what it comes up with.
Behind the scenes, that quote was sent as an input
to our text-to-image models.
And we know it's unlikely that the user will
be happy with just one option, so we generate about six
to eight images so that you have the ability
to choose and refine.
Whoa, I have some oddly delicious
looking fondue pizza images.
Now, this style is a little too cartoony for me,
so I'm going to ask it to try again.
Let's change the style to photography
and give it a whirl.
Just as weird, but it works for me.
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You can have endless fun with no limits
on cheesiness or creativity.
Starting next month, trusted testers
will be able to try this and six more generative AI features
across Workspace.
And later this year, all of this will
be generally available to business and consumer
Workspace users via a new service called
Duet AI for Workspace.
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Stepping back a bit, I showed you a few powerful examples
of how Workspace can help you get more done with just
a few words as prompts.
Prompts are a powerful way of collaborating with AI.
The right prompt can unlock far more from these models.
However, it can be daunting for many of us
to even know where to start.
Well, what if we could solve that for you?
What if AI could proactively offer you prompts?
Even better, what if these prompts were actually
contextual and changed based on what you're working on?
I am super excited to show you a preview of just that.
This is how we see the future of collaboration
with AI coming to life.
Let's switch to a live demo so I can show you what I mean.
Tony's here to help me with that.
Hey, Tony.
TONY: Hey, Aparna.
APARNA PAPPU: So--
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My niece, Mira, and I are working on a spooky story
together for summer camp.
We've already written a few paragraphs,
but now, we're stuck.
Let's get some help.
As you can see, we launch a side panel, something the team
fondly calls Sidekick.
Sidekick instantly reads and processes the document
and offers some really neat suggestions,
along with an open prompt dialog.
If we look closely, we can see some of the suggestions like,
what happened to the golden seashell?
What are common mystery plot twists?
Let's try the seashell option and see
what it comes back with.
Now, what's happening behind the scenes
is that we've provided the entire document as context
to the model along with the suggested prompt.
And let's see what we got back.
The golden seashell was eaten by a giant squid
that lives in the cove.
This is a good start.
Let's insert these notes so that we can
continue our little project.
Now, one of the interesting observations we have
is that it's actually easier to react to something,
or perhaps, use that to say, hmm, I want
to go in a different direction.
And this is exactly what AI can help with.
I see a new suggestion on there for generating images.
Let's see what this does.
The story has a village, a golden seashell,
and other details.
And instead of having to type all of that out,
the model picks out these details from the document
and generates images.
These are some cool pictures, and I
bet my niece will love these.
Let's insert them into the doc for fun.
Thank you, Tony.
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I'm going to walk you through some more examples,
and this will help you see why this powerful, new, contextual
collaboration is such a remarkable boost
to productivity and creativity.
Say you're writing to your neighbors
about an upcoming potluck.
Now, as you can see, Sidekick has summarized what
this conversation is about.
Last year, everyone brought hummus.
Who doesn't love hummus?
But this year, you want a little more variety.
Let's see what people signed up to bring.
Well, somewhere in this thread is a Google Sheet where you've
collected that information.
You can get some help by typing, "Write
a note about the main dishes people are bringing."
And let's see what we get back.
Go.
Awesome.
It found the right sheet and cited the source in the Found
In section, giving you confidence
that this is not made up.
It looks good.
You can insert it directly into your email.
Let's end with an example of how this can help you at work.
Say you're about to give an important presentation
and you've been so focused on the content
that you forgot to prepare speaker notes.
The presentation is in an hour.
Uh-oh, no need to panic.
Look at what one of the suggestions
is, create speaker notes for each slide.
Let's see what happens.
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What happened behind the scenes here
is that the presentation and other relevant context
was sent to the model to help create these notes.
And once you've reviewed them, you
can hit Insert and edit the notes
to convey what you intended.
So you can now deliver the presentation
without worrying about the notes.
As you can see, we've been having
a ton of fun playing with this.
We can see the true potential of AI as a collaborator.
And we'll be bringing this experience
to Duet AI for Workspace.