The ongoing incursion of artificial intelligence into each app, service, and aspect of your life continues. Microsoft’s standard Android keyboard app SwiftKey permits you to sort 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 against the opposite chatbot heavyweights, together with Google’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT (which powers Bing Chat’s backend). Microsoft has since been keen to flaunt its chatbot by extending its attain.
The chat-curious can obtain the beta version of SwiftKey for Android. The April 5 replace makes the Bing chatbot out there wherever you’re messaging. Users 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 urged replies with an analogous emotional tone. The rollout isn’t taking place all at once, so when you set up the SwiftKey beta and don’t see the Bing Chat tabs, preserve checking again.
It’s Android-only, in fact. Users of different working methods can entry Bing Chat by way of the Bing app or by way of an internet browser.
This form of AI tech is smart on the app, on condition that the purpose of SwiftKey is to discern what that means you are attempting to get out along with your swipes and gestures. Of course, it’s one factor to guess the phrase you imply and fairly one other to do the generative AI factor of creating up complete messages you can ship. But hey, it’s AI texting. What might probably go improper?
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Google Moves Podcasts Into YouTube Music
Google likes smushing collectively its providers. Its messaging and videochat providers Meet and Duo had been mixed into one confusing package final yr. Prior to that, Google fused its devoted Google Play music service into YouTube Music.
Next, podcasts are making their manner into YouTube Music. 9to5Google spotted 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 cell app, nevertheless it wouldn’t precisely be out of character for the corporate to accomplish that within the close to future.
Still, Google is clearly keen to get extra motion going with podcasts. Maybe syncing its Podcasts app with its YouTube apps can even take up a few of the viewers from the favored music and video platform. Though, clearly, providers like Spotify and Apple Music have a heck of a head begin.
A Kobo for Writing
Rakuten, greatest identified for its Kobo e-readers, which function 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 predominant rivals, 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 large boi on the E Ink playground, simply by advantage of Amazon’s dominance within the e-reader and e book market. Undeterred, Kobo has stored its competitive cool and churned out constantly high quality devices. They might not have the ubiquity of Amazon’s huge library and simply basic omnipresence, however you’ll be able to all the time take a look at library books on them.
