Google workspace apps including Docs, Drive, Sheets, Slides get new look

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 26, 2023 | Technology

American tech multinational Google’s Workspace apps are getting a makeover as the company plans to refresh the design of Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides in the coming weeks.

According to The Verge, an American technology news website, Google is doing so to align with its Material Design 3 design system more closely, the company announced recently.

For those familiar with Gmail’s refreshed look, the new designs take a lot of cues from that. Google appears to be adding a few additional darker hues to areas like the toolbar and comments in order to help them stand out from a document’s white page.

In contrast to the rectangle with rounded corners Google now employs for the ‘Share’ button, it is now more rounded. Further, Google is implementing a feature it mentioned in October: compatibility for third-party smart chips, reported The Verge.

In a manner similar to Notion and Coda, this might enable you to seamlessly incorporate third-party applications into your work.

These apps include Atlassian, Asana, Figma, Miro, Tableau, and ZenDesk and will become available in the “coming weeks.”

It released some new smart chips of its own as well, such as stopwatch, emoji voting, calendar invite, and a useful date shortcut chip in Sheets, as well as stopwatch, emoji voting, and calendar invite chips for Docs, as per The Verge.

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AI tools not far away from being scary, need to get them right: OpenAI CEO

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 26, 2023 | Technology

As ChatGPT takes the world by storm, its creator Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has stressed that the world may not be “that far from potentially scary” artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and it’s important that such AI chatbots are audited independently before they reach the masses.

The artificial general intelligence (AGI) comes with serious risk of misuse, drastic accidents, and societal disruption.

“Because the upside of AGI is so great, we do not believe it is possible or desirable for society to stop its development forever; instead, society and the developers of AGI have to figure out how to get it right,” Altman said in a blog post.

At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and “for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models.”

“We think public standards about when an AGI effort should stop a training run, decide a model is safe to release, or pull a model from production use are important. Finally, we think it’s important that major world governments have insight about training runs above a certain scale,” Altman elaborated.

Companies are currently using ChatGPT to write codes, copywriting and content creation, customer support and preparing meeting summaries.

On the other hand, the general public is taking the help of AI chatbots to write essays, exams, poems and what not.

According to Altman, OpenAI wants to successfully navigate massive risks.

“In confronting these risks, we acknowledge that what seems right in theory often plays out more strangely than expected in practice. We believe we have to continuously learn and adapt by deploying less powerful versions of the technology in order to minimise “one shot to get it right” scenarios,” he noted.

OpenAI is now working towards creating increasingly aligned and steerable models.

“Our shift from models like the first version of GPT-3 to InstructGPT and ChatGPT is an early example of this,” he said.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 smartphone may not feature Chinese foldable panels

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 26, 2023 | Technology

Tech giant Samsung will reportedly not use Chinese foldable panels for its upcoming “Galaxy Z Fold 5” smartphone.

The tech giant is expected to make the panels for its upcoming foldables, reports SamMobile.

The company is likely to use the teardrop hinge design for its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 devices.

It is expected that the company’s top priority for 2023 is to make its foldable phones thinner.

Last week, display analyst Ross Young had also claimed that Samsung will make displays for its upcoming foldable devices.

Meanwhile, last month, it was reported that the Galaxy Z Fold 5 will feature a “droplet” style hinge that will likely lessen its display crease.

According to tipster Ice Universe, the new Z Fold 5 is expected to feature water resistance even with the new hinge.

It was also rumoured that the Galaxy Z Fold 5 will feature a 108 MP primary rear camera and in-built stylus pen (S Pen) slot.

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MediaTek may soon integrate Nvidia’s AI GPUs in flagship mobile chips

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 26, 2023 | Technology

Chipmaker MediaTek will reportedly integrate Nvidia’s artificial intelligence (AI) graphics processing units (GPUs) in its upcoming 2024 flagship system-on-chips (SoCs).

This would be a big step for Nvidia because it would show that established desktop GPU designs can also be ported to smartphone SoCs, reports Gizmochina.

The new strategy adopted by Nvidia intends to increase AI computational power while aiding in the company’s financial recovery.

It would also be beneficial for MediaTek to incorporate Nvidia GPUs into its SoCs because Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 currently outperforms MediaTek’s SoCs in terms of AI capabilities.

MediaTek might be able to dominate the premium market and increase the appeal of its SoCs to smartphone manufacturers if it can outperform Qualcomm even slightly, the report said.

Meanwhile, last week, MediaTek had said that it will be demonstrating its innovative 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) technology that brings two-way satellite communications to smartphones at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which will take place from February 27 to March 2 in Barcelona, Spain.

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Tech giant Google announces two-pane view for Gmail on Android foldables

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 26, 2023 | Technology

Tech giant Google has announced that it has rolled out a two-pane view on Gmail for Android foldables.

“As part of our mission to provide a top-class user experience on large screen devices, Android foldable-device users have been able to access a 2-pane view for Google Meet and Gmail,” the tech giant said in a Workspace Updates blogpost.

“We’re excited to announce this also includes the Chat tab in the Gmail app.”

Earlier this month, the tech giant had announced that it was rolling out a new feature in Gmail, which will allow admins to disable spam filters and hide warning banners for all users or for “a specific allowlist of senders”.

“You may consider turning off these warnings when conducting anti-phishing training with your end users,” the company had said.

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AI vs humans: Some companies begin replacing employees with ChatGPT

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 26, 2023 | Technology

Microsoft-owned ChatGPT has started replacing humans at workplaces as some companies have implemented the AI chatbot to perform the work being done earlier by employees, saving thousands of dollars.

Companies that use ChatGPT said they saved money using the AI tool, with 48 per cent saved over $50,000 and 11 per cent saved over $100,000, according to a report in Fortune.

Job advice platform Resumebuilder.com surveyed 1,000 business leaders who either use or plan to use ChatGPT.

It found that about half of their companies have implemented chatbots. And nearly half of this group say that “ChatGPT has already converted employees at their companies”.

“As this new technology is growing in the workplace right now, workers definitely need to think about how it may affect their current job responsibilities,” Stacey Haller, chief career advisor at Resume Builder was quoted as saying in the report.

Companies are using ChatGPT to write codes, copywriting and content creation, customer support and preparing meeting summaries.

About 77 per cent of firms using ChatGPT said they use it to help write job descriptions and 66 per cent said the AI chatbot is drafting interview solicitations.

In a survey, Resume Builder found that job seekers are also utilising AI chatbot ChatGPT for resumes and cover letters.

Almost 1 in 2 current and recent job seekers have used ChatGPT to write their resumes and/or cover letters.

Of the 1,000 respondents who admitted to using ChatGPT for their application materials, 72 per cent said they used the tool to write cover letters, and 51 per cent say they used it to write resumes.

Most respondents were satisfied with the results from ChatGPT, as 76 per cent of respondents said the quality of application materials written by ChatGPT is ‘high’ or ‘very high’.

Additionally, 28 per cent said they only had to do ‘a little bit’ or ‘no’ editing to resumes and/or cover letters written by ChatGPT.

Microsoft recently introduced AI-powered Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and integrated Chat.

The company is testing it with a select set of people in over 169 countries to get real-world feedback to learn and improve.

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