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
now Google had their Google I O event yesterday and essentially it went down a treat because
mainly what was discussed was AI Google are naturally in a race with open Ai and Microsoft
which is a branch I guess of open ai's technology and they're trying to catch up pretty rapidly
they introduce something called Duet AI which I want to expand on in this video and give you
an idea for how it could potentially change the Google workspace environment and how they could
expand it into pretty much every tool which could be an interesting experience welcome to
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out tool finder linked below we'll also have an article on duet AI over there as well so do it
AI is a experience that will be coming to Google workspace later this year they didn't really give
a bit of context around it but they also released a few other updates when it came to workspace and
they were the likes of help me write which will live inside of Google docs and Gmail for helping
you to improve Drafting and crafting of documents and they also improved the likes of slides and a
new ability in Excel I was going to say Excel it's actually Google Sheets that essentially allows you
to create workspaces or sheets or tables for you from a prompt which is a neat feature that was
actually initially sort of I guess brought to life with Coda AI that launched about a month
and a half ago so Google seemingly trying to catch up with a few elements here the duet AI
seemed probably the most interesting element of this and it lives in the top right hand corner
of your Google workspace account now they gave a few examples of how this could potentially work
and I'm not sure whether I heard it right but I believe internally they're trying to call it
Google sidekick or something like that but duet AI strange name for it allows you to basically
use a chat like ability that scans whatever you're working on to improve what you're doing
so here's an example they gave a good example of that they're writing a a story with their
niece or I think it was and they're crafting a piece that would essentially be about that
story now you would pop this sidekick open from the top right hand corner and from here you'll
be able to basically see prompts and suggestions on the scan of the document so in this case they
were at the point where they were struggling to produce the next line or creative hook that this
might be about and it offered two suggestions the suggestion of what happens next and the suggestion
of an image that can be crafted using what's in the document so this is really interesting because
it could help you to craft documents better and be able to pull resources that are in your Google
workspace account much like we're seeing with Microsoft co-pilot that has taken advantage of
the 365 ecosystem pooling stuff from the graph and bringing it into certain accounts and areas that
you're using 365. so Google definitely getting some inspiration there when it comes to duet
AI but definitely a good step forward they also demonstrated how this could be powerful in Gmail
as well giving an example of you know organizing a neighborhood potluck which I still don't know
what is but you can open this sidekick from the top right hand corner and essentially helps you
prompt based on the scan of the page and gives you some suggestions so in this case it might be like
being able to pull some recipe ideas in there and what it will do is not only we take uh you
know what's on the page and be able to utilize the AI function but it will take what you've
already created in terms of the documents that are already in your account again very similar to what
co-pilot is doing with at Microsoft but of course definitely something I think a lot of people will
find beneficial so you can naturally utilize this function into Sai but this is something that's
quite exciting around the ecosystem of Google is obviously you're not just thinking okay this
duet AI can live in workspace but imagine if they made something like this available inside of an
experience like Google Chrome as an extension or maybe via Android as well this could live almost
on the top of things and work with any app that you're utilizing to be able to organize
which sort of gives like a layer of AI on top of every app that has ever been created that utilizes
generative elements so whatever you're using Google could have a layer over the top of it
which is pretty much what Google Chrome's business model is I guess is being the home to everything
else so do it AI isn't expected till later this year but they also gave a final demonstration
of slides and how this experience could work so opening up in slides and you're in a last minute
situation you want to add speaker notes that are relevant to this with the context you've
added in the slides well it can do that for you as well so do it AI the goal of it is really to save
you time on elements that you're already using and works pretty much in a similar situation to
Microsoft co-pilot in allowing you to get enhanced experiences using Google workspace graph to pull
out other experiences inside of those so nothing really ridiculously new with duet AI but we're
seeing common Trend with Google Microsoft in the moment where tools like Coda catalog notion and
many more that are doing some interesting stuff with AI Google Microsoft are almost pinching these
ideas and essentially implementing it on a larger scale with bigger distribution this is really
interesting to see because are we going to see a evolution in where all of these third-party
applications that present the concept just suddenly become too pressured because of the
distribution of Google and Microsoft another example last week was Microsoft introduced new
whiteboard AI functions with co-pilot which allows you to summarize what's on the board
that you're demonstrating and visualize and suggest items as well which is really
cool feature but Miro have definitely been doing something like that for about a month and a half
now and naturally seen that Innovation and being able to implement it so we're seeing third-party
applications almost get their their function being stripped from them now of course the
argument is Google Microsoft not everyone want to use them and third parties will continue to
rise but in terms of AI Innovations the third party Marketplace is definitely doing much
more than Google Microsoft to be able to innovate faster than they are but of course there's a level
of distribution and responsibility in that and Google Microsoft and the other applications
that are much bigger have that responsibility and much more of a user base to be able to try and uh
you know warrant innovating fast from but it's definitely interesting to see how duetai will
evolve and we'll get our hands on it as soon as we humanly can humanly can um good one but of course
if you're interested in exploring more trends like this whether that's Microsoft co-pilot or Google's
workspace there will be a Google event next week which will help us explore certain Topics in there
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