The era of AI office is coming, can WPS and OFFICE meet at the top?

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At the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held on July 6, Kingsoft Office demonstrated the results of the combination of WPS and AI. It only needs to simply input requirements, and WPS AI can generate documents or content that meet the requirements. Some simple and repetitive tasks can be handed over to WPS AI to complete, and it can also allow novices in office software to quickly master some complex office skills.

At the conference site, Kingsoft Office showed how to use WPS AI to draft an invitation letter without any assistance. Users only need to fill in the corresponding information according to the draft, and at the same time fine-tune the content according to the actual situation to complete a qualified invitation letter. copy of the invitation letter.

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There are also multiple functions such as table data extraction, table data calculation, table generation, intelligent typesetting, etc., which have been launched in WPS AI. Change our office life?

The era of AI office is coming

The emergence of the large AI model has brought us a lot of shocks. The AI based on the natural language processing model has far surpassed the previous AI in terms of word processing. I believe that in the past few months, everyone has deeply With experience, Xiaolei will not narrate too much here, let us look back at WPS AI.

As the first online office software AI in China, **WPS AI will be one of the core ecological cores in the future planning of Kingsoft Office. AI can learn from AIGC (content creation), Copilot (smart assistant) and Insight (knowledge insight) There are three ways to help users. **

Moreover, just as Microsoft previously advertised, WPS AI is also a super function that spans multiple application modules such as documents, presentations, and forms. In different application modules, WPS AI can provide different assistance. For example, in the document application, AI can collect information and write an article outline for you, while in the presentation application, the user can provide a topic and let AI directly generate a PPT for you.

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Users can communicate with AI through continuous dialogue, allowing AI to modify the generated content, change the theme and other operations can be realized through dialogue.

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**WPS has shown us the charm of AI in the office field, so where is Microsoft, which also advertises that it will launch AI auxiliary functions, now? **Previously, many readers were asking, as the two giants of office software, what is the difference between the experience of WPS and office? As someone who subscribes to both WPS and Microsoft 365, I may be able to provide some reference.

WPS and OFFICE meet at the top

Previously, Microsoft's famous office suite office 365 announced a product upgrade and changed its name to Microsoft 365. Great changes have taken place from icons to UI interfaces. Coincidentally, the same is true for WPS. WPS 365 was launched, and it has a more refreshing and concise UI. The design style has also undergone obvious changes. With the emergence of AI large models, office software closely related to text work are catching up. this new trend.

To experience the WPS AI function, you must first apply on the official website and update to the latest WPS before you can use it, and then you can see the "WPS AI" option in the toolbar of the office component. In addition to clicking the option to open the sidebar, the user can directly wake up the AI by typing "@AI" in the document. After awakening, the WPS AI can provide functions such as "continue writing, shorten the length, expand the length, and polish". Type a question directly into the question box and get an answer.

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AI will generate the answer directly into the document and circle it with a purple box. Users can choose options such as "rewrite, polish, and discard", and they can also like or dislike the generated answer. Judging from the generated answers, it is basically close to the level of ChatGPT 3.0. It is very convenient to quickly generate some product introductions or query some information.

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However, I also found some problems during use. For example, after calling out the AI and generating an answer, the user must click an option before editing the area outside the AI answer. If the user just wants to use the answer as a reference, such a setting will obviously increase the operation steps. Allowing the user to directly edit other text while providing the AI answer can solve this problem.

**In addition, the sidebar of WPS AI will also provide some additional functions, such as "analyze the full text, core ideas, article outline, recommend related issues", etc. ** After a simple experience, it can indeed improve the work to a certain extent Efficiency, and replace some simple workflow, but also can be used as an AI search engine.

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At present, WPS AI is in the testing stage. All users can go to the WPS AI official website to apply and get the latest client. Friends who want to try AI office should not miss it.

What about Microsoft Office? Unfortunately, although Microsoft 365 has completed the package upgrade, the AI function has not yet been launched. It only provides a general-purpose AI tool Copilot in the latest DEV version of Windows. The current function of this tool is also very limited. Basically, it can be used as A sidebar version of New Bing, and only a limited degree of interaction with the system.

**However, in Microsoft's plan, Copilot will achieve deep integration with Microsoft's software ecosystem in the future, and users can schedule various official software through Copliot. **For example, according to the needs of users, summarize the content of a certain web page or article, and then directly generate a Word document, etc., but in the current Microsoft 365, everything is just a concept, and the specific launch time has yet to be further explained by the official.

Compared with previous Office suites, Microsoft 365 also provides more office software and applications, such as Microsoft Teams, etc. However, Microsoft 365 also needs to purchase an additional Plus member to use their template library.

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Therefore, only in terms of AI functions, WPS is currently more in line with the needs of Chinese people. Although this AI is still in its early stage, there is room for improvement in functions and answers, but the upgrade and improvement speed of the AI large model is actually Exceeding most people's expectations, I believe that within half a year, we can see the birth of a better WPS AI.