The ongoing incursion of artificial intelligence into each app, service, and aspect of your life continues. Microsoft’s widespread Android keyboard app SwiftKey allows 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 against the opposite chatbot heavyweights, together with Google’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT (which powers Bing Chat’s backend). Microsoft has since been desirous 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 accessible wherever you’re messaging. Users will see three tabs in SwiftKey: one for Bing Search, one marked Chat that permits you to speak to Bing Chat’s AI, and one marked Tone that reads your conversations and composes steered replies with an identical emotional tone. The rollout isn’t occurring all at once, so in the event you set up the SwiftKey beta and don’t see the Bing Chat tabs, hold checking again.

It’s Android-only, in fact. Users of different working programs can entry Bing Chat via the Bing app or via an internet browser.

This type of AI tech is sensible 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 might ship. But hey, it’s AI texting. What might 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 confusing package final yr. Prior to that, Google fused its devoted Google Play music service into YouTube Music.

Next, podcasts are making their approach 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 cellular app, but it surely wouldn’t precisely be out of character for the corporate to take action within the close to future.

Still, Google is clearly desirous 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, companies like Spotify and Apple Music have a heck of a head begin.

A Kobo for Writing

Rakuten, finest identified for its Kobo e-readers, which function alternate options to Amazon’s Kindles, has a brand new E Ink pill you possibly can write on. The Kobo Elipsa 2E has a ten.3-inch display screen that permits you to learn ebooks and paperwork whereas scribbling notes with the accompanying pen.

At $400, the Elipsa is pricier than its primary opponents, 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 massive 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 persistently high quality devices. They could not have the ubiquity of Amazon’s huge library and simply normal omnipresence, however you possibly can all the time try library books on them.