Microsoft Adds Bing Chat to SwiftKey Beta for Android

The ongoing incursion of artificial intelligence into each app, service, and aspect of your life continues. Microsoft’s in style Android keyboard app SwiftKey helps you to kind by swiping throughout letters on the display screen 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 keen 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 out there wherever you’re messaging. Users will see three tabs in SwiftKey: one for Bing Search, one marked Chat that allows you to speak to Bing Chat’s AI, and one marked Tone that reads your conversations and composes recommended replies with the same emotional tone. The rollout isn’t occurring , so for those who set up the SwiftKey beta and don’t see the Bing Chat tabs, hold checking again.

It’s Android-only, after all. Users of different working programs can entry Bing Chat via the Bing app or via an online browser.

This type of AI tech is smart on the app, on condition that the purpose of SwiftKey is to discern what which means you are attempting to get out together 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 constructing up complete messages you would ship. But hey, it’s AI texting. What may presumably go mistaken?

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Google Moves Podcasts Into YouTube Music

Google likes smushing collectively its companies. Its messaging and videochat companies Meet and Duo have been mixed into one complicated package deal final 12 months. Prior to that, Google fused its devoted Google Play music service into YouTube Music.

Next, 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 cell app, nevertheless it wouldn’t precisely be out of character for the corporate to achieve this 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 will even soak up a number of the viewers from the favored music and video platform. Though, clearly, companies 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 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 screen that allows you to learn ebooks and paperwork whereas scribbling notes with the accompanying pen.

At $400, the Elipsa is pricier than its fundamental 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 saved its competitive cool and churned out constantly high quality units. They might not have the ubiquity of Amazon’s huge library and simply normal omnipresence, however you’ll be able to at all times take a look at library books on them.