Soon Grammarly will no longer just recommend ways to improve your writing, it will do it for you.
Grammarly’s typing assistant already uses AI in several ways to act as a smart tool. Not only does it catch common grammar and spelling mistakes, but it can also suggest ways to structure your sentences better and even tell you what tone your writing conveys (with adjectives like Formal, Confident, Accusing, and Egocentric).
In April, Grammarly will go one step further with the launch of GrammarlyGo.
Built on OpenAI’s large GPT-3 language models (OpenAI is the team behind ChatGPT), GrammarlyGo will be able to perform a ton of different functions. If you have a document that has already been written, GrammarlyGo will be able to edit it to present a different tone or change the length to make your writing clearer or more concise. Alternatively, if you have a writing block, its idea tools will purportedly help you unlock your creativity by brainstorming and outlining based on the prompts you provide.
The press release (opens in a new tab) he says he won’t stop at contours either. GrammarlyGo will be able to compose entire documents for you and can even generate email replies based on the context of the conversation.
We haven’t had a chance to try GrammarlyGo on ourselves yet, but we expect it to perform similarly to other ChatGPT alternatives we’ve tested. In particular, we imagine he’ll be very promising, but his compositions will almost certainly need human tweaking and tweaking – especially while he’s still in beta. Even after being encouraged to work, we found that AI writing bots can have a hard time generating content that sounds authoritative. Sure, they can write 400 words about, say, VR headsets, but the writing is often full of chaff and sprinkled with buzzwords rather than giving the impression that it’s written by someone who understands the subject.
The GrammarlyGo beta will start in April (exact date not yet known) and will be available to all Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business and Grammarly for Education subscribers. It will also be available to those using the free version of Grammarly in the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
It’s not just about writing that OpenAI technology helps to improve. Spotify launched AI DJ that can talk to you while mixing your favorite tracks, and Microsoft has incorporated ChatGPT into its search engine to create the impressive Bing Chat tool.