AI present in Word or Outlook 2016 . . .

Try3 said:

I've also been reading it and have altered my earlier post.

• Word etc improved spelling & grammar checks.
• PowerPoint improved captions & subtitles.
• Teams simultaneous language translation. I can see this as being useful as long as it is accurate.
• There might be some other concrete benefits stated but my brain melted.

Denis

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Denis -
Again, thanks for finding these articles.

Some of this makes me worry for a friend and the industry they are in. My friend copy-edits articles and books. AI threatens all of it. While it may make me a better author in peoples' eyes, it also can put authors (and my friend) at risk, too, as any fool with a keyboard and a computer will be able to write a whole book from an idea, along with proper punctuation, spellings, no typos, etc., indistinguishable from one written by a real author.

Someone once said that given an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters, eventually you could get the complete works of William Shakespeare. Now it is down to one monkey and one computer with AI!

Pair that with the fact that computers, as we know them, have been around for something like 36 years, and people are still getting the dreaded BSOD. What could go wrong?

Cheers!

Try3 said:

I should have explained further.
If an MSOffice 2021 [or 365, I suppose] installation detects an existing 32-bit version then it installs itself as 32-bit.
No choice is presented to the user.

I'm going to have to remove Office 2007 sometime soon in order to re-use my licence on a new computer.
Then I'll take the opportunity to reinstall Office 2021 and it will default to a 64-bit installation.


All the best,
Denis

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