What you might want to know
- Google might launch a brand new “Magic Compose” function for Google Messages.
- The function would use generative AI to assist customers rewrite or compose messages in several types.
- Microsoft not too long ago built-in Bing AI into SwiftKey with related AI options.
With generative AI on the rise, corporations are methods to combine it into extra apps and companies. And whereas Google Messages already affords Sensible Reply recommendations, it seems to be like Google might take this additional with some Bard AI magic.
9to5Google obtained screenshots of a brand new function which may be coming quickly to Google’s messaging app. Dubbed “Magic Compose,” the function will apparently enable customers to “Get draft recommendations and rewritten draft recommendations.” Mainly, it might compose responses for the consumer or rewrite a response.
From the screenshots, this function can have two icons related to it. When nothing is written within the textual content discipline, a model of the Google Messages icon with a sparkle might be current (for composing), whereas a pencil with a sparkle will seem if textual content is being entered into the sector (for rewriting).
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When composing a brand new message, the function will apparently use context from inside the dialog to type the response. When rewriting textual content, customers will have the ability to select from totally different types, relying on how the consumer needs to sound. Customers can seemingly toggle the function on and off within the settings menu, with an “Experimental” tag proven on the function.
Magic Compose sounds much like SwiftkKey’s new Bing AI integration, which additionally rewrites textual content based mostly on chosen types. Nevertheless, it does not appear to be Google is interested by integrating Bard chat into Messages like Microsoft does with SwiftKey, though it is attainable Bard may come to Android in some form or type sooner or later. It additionally appears to require an energetic web connection with the intention to work.
As for when this new Magic Compose function will arrive, it isn’t but clear. Nevertheless, 9to5 first noticed the function a couple of months in the past, and based mostly on the screenshots, it seems to be prefer it may very well be fairly far alongside. In any case, Google I/O 2023 is true across the nook, so we’ll probably hear about this and extra options coming to Google’s apps and companies.
