Google said today that its Duet AI assistant is now available in all of its Workspace apps, including Gmail, Drive, Slides, Docs and more. According to the company, Duet technology has been in testing for some time and more than a million users have already tried Google’s virtual assistant. It is now available to everyone who has paid for Google’s Workspace apps.
Google introduced Duet AI earlier this year at its I/O developer conference, touting the suite of capabilities as a useful contributor to all of its Google apps. You can ask Duet to turn your Google Docs outline into a Slides presentation or create a chart from spreadsheet data. Duet can also function as a creative tool, asking you to create an email response, generate images, or check your grammar. You can also use it to search Drive, summarize your documents, and do other things. Duet can be seen as a cross between the helpful working layout of Clippy and the creative powers of ChatGPT.
Duet is also a general name for a variety of application-specific features. Duet on Google Meet involves AI-powered lighting and sound adjustments, as well as automated meeting summaries; in Chat, it involves automatic summaries of long threads that you don’t have time to read.
All this AI, however, won’t be cheap: at least for large companies, Google will charge $30 per user for access to Duet. (Workspace director Aparna Pappu told CNBC that Google hasn’t decided on pricing for smaller teams.) That’s the same fee Microsoft charges for Copilot, its AI system with identical features that work in most Office apps. That’s a lot to pay for a collection of still very new AI tools in both circumstances.
The problem with all of these tools is that the underlying AI models aren’t perfect, or even close to it, and the stakes are high when it comes to business-critical data. It’s silly if Google’s Bard chatbot hallucinates a movie that doesn’t exist; If Duet misinterprets or invents your company’s sales figures, you are in great danger. Duet does its best to stay grounded in your data and files, but anyone who trusts Google’s AI should always double check.
If you use Workspace, Duet will start appearing in almost every program you use. It’s a different menu in some areas, which you can access by clicking the Duet icon in the top right corner. In other cases, you can ask Duet for help directly from the body of your email or document. Given Google’s habit of highlighting new features even when they irritate users, like the seemingly endless Meet icons in Gmail, you won’t be able to ignore Duet even if you try.
Google directly challenges Microsoft with Duet. Both companies believe that AI has the ability to alter the way we work, and these expansive tools that do it all are key to the future of both great office suites. We might have gotten something if Duet and Copilot can do better than “I see you’re trying to write a resume!”
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