Arrr mateys, Google Workspace be gettin' a chatty tool to aid in our collaboration – say hello to AI Teammate!
2024-05-14
Avast ye scallywags! Google's AI Teammate be like a trusty parrot on yer shoulder, helpin' ye keep track o' all yer documents, chats, and emails. A virtual collaborator to make yer crew work smoother and faster than Davy Jones can say "Ahoy matey!" Arrr!
If ye workplace uses Google Workspace productivity suite o' apps, then ye might soon get a new shipmate - an AI Shipmate that be. In its mission to improve our real-life collaboration, Google has created a tool to pool shared documents, conversations, comments, chats, emails, and more into a singular virtual generative AI chatbot: the AI Shipmate. Powered by Google's own Gemini generative AI model, AI Shipmate be designed to help ye concentrate more on yer role within yer organization and leave the tracking and tackling o' collective assignments and tasks to the AI tool.This virtual matey will have its own identity, its own Workspace account, and a specifically defined role and objective to fulfil. When AI Shipmate be set up, it can be given a custom name, as well as have other modifications, including its job role, a description o' how it's expected to help yer crew, and specific tasks it's supposed to carry out.In a demonstration o' an example AI Shipmate at I/O 2024, Google showed a virtual shipmate named 'Chip' who had access to a group chat o' those involved in presenting the I/O 2024 demo. The presenter, Tony Vincent, explained that Chip was privy to a multitude o' chat rooms that had been set up as part o' preparing for the big event.Vincent then asks Chip if I/O storyboards had been approved – the type o' question ye'd possibly ask crewmates – and Chip was able to answer as it can analyze all o' these conversations that it had been keyed into. As AI Shipmate be added to more threads, files, chats, emails, and other shared items, it builds a collective memory o' the work shared in yer organization.