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Microsoft 365 to get big Nvidia AI-editing boost


Disclosure: Most of the vendors mentioned are clients of the author.

Nvidia’s big fall show, GTC (GPU Technology Conference), offered a lot of artificial intelligence news this week, ranging from autonomous robots to AIs that write the software they use. This matters to me because I’m a heavy Microsoft 365 user — I currently rely on Grammarly for automated editing — and Nvidia announced that Microsoft would be using Nvidia’s AI in Microsoft 365, initially for grammar correction, Q&A helper bots, and text prediction. 

This move is only the start, so let’s look at how this AI capability could boost your productivity and evolve over the next few years.

Making Microsoft 365 smart: Step 1

One of the biggest frustrations for me is that even with products like IBM Watson in the market, we still don’t have smart digital assistants. Most translate queries into text, post them in a search engine, and then translate the text of the result back to speech. You can still generally get better and more consistent results just typing your query into the address bar of a browser. The current generation of AI can do amazing things, yet we still don’t have access to all it has to offer. 

That’s starting to change: one of our first chances to use cutting-edge AI will be when this technology gets embedded into Microsoft 365. As noted, the initial capability will be focused on three things. Let’s look at each one.

Grammar correction

I’m expecting this capability to be like Grammarly, which is already an AI engine that works with Word and your browser. But I expect Microsoft to advance beyond Grammarly and allow you to batch accept changes — much as you can do with editing tools today, significantly speeding up the editing process. I also expect it to learn your preferences over time because Nvidia showcased its AI engine’s ability to teach itself based on a user’s or groups’ behavior.  This AI implementation should not only improve editing accuracy but speed as well.  

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