The continued incursion of synthetic intelligence into each app, service, and aspect of your life continues. Microsoft’s well-liked Android keyboard app SwiftKey enables you to kind by swiping throughout letters on the display to generate phrases. Now, SwiftKey is getting a dose of chatbot to spice issues up.
Microsoft launched its AI-enhanced Bing chatbot in February. Since then it has gone up in opposition to the opposite chatbot heavyweights, together with Google’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT (which powers Bing Chat’s backend). Microsoft has since been desirous to flaunt its chatbot by extending its attain.
The chat-curious can obtain the beta model of SwiftKey for Android. The April 5 replace makes the Bing chatbot obtainable wherever you’re messaging. Customers will see three tabs in SwiftKey: one for Bing Search, one marked Chat that permits you to discuss to Bing Chat’s AI, and one marked Tone that reads your conversations and composes recommended replies with an identical emotional tone. The rollout isn’t taking place suddenly, so in the event you set up the SwiftKey beta and don’t see the Bing Chat tabs, preserve checking again.
It’s Android-only, in fact. Customers of different working methods can entry Bing Chat by the Bing app or by an internet browser.
This type of AI tech is sensible on the app, on condition that the purpose of SwiftKey is to discern what that means you are attempting to get out together with your swipes and gestures. After all, it’s one factor to guess the phrase you imply and fairly one other to do the generative AI factor of creating up entire messages you may ship. However hey, it’s AI texting. What might probably go unsuitable?
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Google Strikes Podcasts Into YouTube Music
Google likes smushing collectively its companies. Its messaging and videochat companies Meet and Duo have been mixed into one complicated bundle final 12 months. Previous to that, Google fused its devoted Google Play music service into YouTube Music.
Subsequent, podcasts are making their manner into YouTube Music. 9to5Google noticed the addition of a Podcasts tab to the YouTube Music app. It’s not a affirmation that Google is planning to ditch its devoted Podcasts cellular app, however it wouldn’t precisely be out of character for the corporate to take action within the close to future.
Nonetheless, Google is clearly desirous to get extra motion going with podcasts. Perhaps syncing its Podcasts app with its YouTube apps may also take up a few of the viewers from the favored music and video platform. Although, clearly, companies like Spotify and Apple Music have a heck of a head begin.
A Kobo for Writing
Rakuten, finest recognized for its Kobo e-readers, which function alternate options to Amazon’s Kindles, has a brand new E Ink pill you’ll be able to write on. The Kobo Elipsa 2E has a ten.3-inch display that permits you to learn ebooks and paperwork whereas scribbling notes with the accompanying pen.
At $400, the Elipsa is pricier than its important opponents, the ReMarkable 2 and Amazon’s Kindle Scribe. The Kindle Scribe could also be later to the lineup than the ReMarkable, however it’s nonetheless the massive boi on the E Ink playground, simply by advantage of Amazon’s dominance within the e-reader and book market. Undeterred, Kobo has saved its aggressive cool and churned out constantly high quality units. They might not have the ubiquity of Amazon’s huge library and simply common omnipresence, however you’ll be able to at all times take a look at library books on them.