Picture yourself on a trip to an unfamiliar place without access to Google Maps. Or, say, you wake up on a workday and find that you can’t access your Gmail. It’s implausible even to think of, so you’re right. Almost every facet of modern life has already been touched by the tech titan. Google has spent over 25 years creating products and services with the goal of improving our daily lives. Everything from Maps to Gmail and Google Search and Google Documents in the Google Workspace has been crucial in making people’s lives better. In addition, they have achieved market dominance by incorporating AI and ML into their products. Text summary in Documents along with Gmail’s Smart Reply and Smart Compose features, enhanced video quality in Meet, and protection against phishing attempts and malware are just a few of the artificial intelligence (AI) enhancements that Google has already brought to its Workspace products over the past several years. Now, Google is planning a major update that would drastically alter the Workspace experience for its customers.

Google has recently announced that its applications of Workspace cloud (Gmail, Slides, Docs, Sheets, Chat, and Meet) would soon have generative artificial intelligence. Users will be able to harness the potential of generative AI in terms of creativity, connectivity, and collaboration. In keeping with its stated goal of “creating, growing, and building for everyone,” Google’s Workspace has quickly become the most popular and trusted cloud-based communications and collaboration suite in the world. Recent developments in generative AI will open up new avenues for the company to fulfill this aim. You’ll be able to use the new tools to draught documents and emails, compose responses, prioritize inboxes, have text in your papers automatically corrected, incorporate media into your presentations with tools like Slides and Google Photos, perform in-depth analyses of data in Sheets, and more. Some other capabilities include integrating the automated procedure that uses Chat as the command and control endpoint, automatically adding a background or capturing records for Meet, and so on. The company wants to conduct extensive testing of these generative AI experiences with beta users earlier than making them accessible to the public. These cutting-edge, alluring additions will roll out throughout the year.

Starting with Google Documents and Gmail, the first wave of AI-powered writing tools will be released. The new generative AI built into Documents and Gmail includes features for all levels of writers. The first group of features is designed to help you get started writing about anything you choose. The users can then customize the tone and structure of the template to reflect their own writing preferences and, optionally, that of their collaborative AI partner. To assist users in rewriting their original text to achieve the desired tone and style, Google has also incorporated new generative AI capabilities. In preparation for a job interview, for instance, one may wish to formalize an email or summarise a meeting for distribution to coworkers. Customers in the United States who speak English will be the beta testers for the upcoming updates to Google Documents and Gmail. Once these features have been tested and improved based on user feedback, they will be rolled out to a wider range of consumers, small enterprises, medium and big corporations, and academic users in a variety of countries and languages. The release dates for Meet, Sheets, Slides, and Chat have not been announced by the company.

Google’s goal with its forthcoming suite of generative AI experiences is to maintain its tradition of operating at a scale previously unattainable. The company’s previous studies of AI and productivity taught it the importance of taking its time, conducting extensive testing, and iterating frequently based on user feedback when developing AI capabilities. The company is well aware of these factors, which is why it is dedicated to creating solutions that follow its Artificial intelligence principles and give users the option to determine how much assistance they want from artificial intelligence in the form of ideas, adjustments, or edits. The products are being designed in a way that respects the privacy of users, keeps their data secure, and works within any data governance frameworks they may have.

With the use of AI, Google plans to make its Workspace product a true collaborative partner, always at your side while you work towards your goals. A company worth a billion dollars is confident that its efforts will revolutionize creativity throughout Workspace, just as they did 17 years ago with collaboration and co-authoring in Docs. Google hopes that its effort will be recognized as an early step in fully exploiting generative AI throughout the entire Workspace. Any businesses that aren’t currently using Workspace are encouraged to do so by signing up for a free Google Workspace Starter account and trying out the company’s artificial intelligence products.