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Welcome to Copilot in Word

Copilot in Word ushers in a new era of writing, leveraging the power of AI. It can help you go from a blank page to a finished document in a fraction of the time it would take to compose text on your own. And while it may write exactly what you need, sometimes it may be "usefully wrong" thus giving you some helpful inspiration. Additionally, Copilot Chat can provide helpful actions based on your document content or obtain additional content from outside resources. 

And if you’re looking for something more generic, beyond what's in your draft, you can ask Copilot Chat questions to research, ideate, or iterate on for possible content to add. 

Draft with Copilot

Note:  This feature is available to customers with either a Copilot for Microsoft 365 (work) or Copilot Pro (home) license.

Whether you’re creating a new document or working on an existing one, Copilot can help you move forward. In a new, blank document or upon creating new line in an existing document, the Draft with Copilot experience appears. 

The description you provide can be a simple sentence or a more complex request with outlines, notes, or referenced files that you want Copilot to use. You could tell Copilot "Write an essay about baseball" or "C reate a paragraph about time management, " for example. 

For users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license, the Reference a file  button allows you to search for and include up to three of your existing files as inputs to ground the content Copilot drafts. In the compose box, you can also enter "/" and the name of the file you'd like to reference, which will update the file options shown in the menu for selection. This feature only references the files you select, not any other organizational data.

In the Copilot compose box, enter in details on how you would like Copilot's response to change. For example, write " Make this more concise, " and Copilot will fine tune its response based on your instructions.

In a document with existing content, you can also use the Inspire Me button to have Copilot automatically keep writing for you, based on the content already in your document. 

For more information, see  Start a draft with Copilot in Word.

Transform with Copilot

Sometimes rewriting and editing your documents takes more time and thought than writing your ideas down in the first place. Copilot not only helps you create new content, but it also helps you transform your existing content into a document you can be proud of.

Fine tune the table by entering details into the Copilot compose box about what to adjust in the table, like " Add an empty third column. "

For both Rewrite and Visualize as a table , select < and > to navigate through Copilot's suggestions.

For more information, see  Transform your content with Copilot in Word .

Chat with Copilot

When generating summaries or asking questions about your document, Copilot will provide references with citations to where it retrieved its information from.

For more information, see  Chat with Copilot about your Word document.

Some ideas to try 

Want to practice a bit and see what Copilot can do? Here are some starter ideas. 

Draft with Copilot 

Use the Copilot prompt in the canvas to request content for any of these.  

An article for my team on the importance of taking care of their wellbeing

Create a business plan for a new mobile pet grooming service

Write a marketing plan for a house painting business

Create a cover letter for a Finance Officer role

Ask Copilot about the document

In a document containing existing content, open Copilot Chat and try any of these. 

What are the key points in this doc?

Summarize this document.

Is there a call to action?

Ask Copilot for info that's not in the document

In the Copilot Chat pane try any of these.

I need a chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Show me the chocolate chip cookie recipe ingredients in a table.

Give me an example haiku about Contoso coffee.

Copilot and Microsoft 365 are built on Microsoft's comprehensive approach to security, compliance, and privacy.

For more information about privacy, see the following information:

If you’re using Copilot for Microsoft 365 in your organization (with your work or school account), see Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 .

If you're using Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps at home as part of Copilot Pro (with your personal Microsoft account), see  Copilot Pro: Microsoft 365 apps and your privacy .

Current limitations

The content of the chat pane isn't saved, so Copilot won't be able to refer to previous interactions there.

Copilot may not work well with content containing SmartArt, tables, or charts.

Copilot currently supports fewer languages than what's available for the UI. Find more information at Microsoft Copilot supported languages .

Copilot is currently limited in the number of words it can process per prompt. For more information about processing longer documents, see  Keeping it short and sweet: a guide on the length of documents that you provide to Copilot .

Keep in mind...

The features described here use GPT, an AI system from OpenAI that creates text based on a prompt. As it is a new system, it may create things you didn’t expect. If you find its content to be unexpected or offensive, please send us feedback so we can make it better. Because content generated via AI draws from the internet, it may contain inaccuracies or sensitive material. Be sure to review and verify the information it generates. Also note that similar requests may result in the same content being generated. 

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If there's something you like about Copilot—and especially if there's something you don't like—you can submit feedback to Microsoft. Just click the thumb-up or thumb-down button in the response output. This feedback will help us improve your experience in Word. 

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Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI

Copilot is Microsoft’s take on productivity-boosting generative AI, and it continues to grow and expand with Microsoft’s AI ambitions. Today, there are around a dozen Copilot-branded products powering various capabilities in Microsoft software and services, like summarizations in Microsoft Outlook and transcriptions in Microsoft Teams.

That’s in addition to Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot tool for generating code, and the Copilot that lives on Windows and the web, which serves more as a general-purpose assistant à la OpenAI’s ChatGPT than a point solution.

In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and we highlight the key differences between each.

What is Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot, previously known as Bing Chat , is built into Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, as well as Windows 10, Windows 11 and the Microsoft Edge sidebar . ( Newer PCs even have a dedicated keyboard key for launching Copilot.) There’s also stand-alone Copilot apps for Android and iOS and an in-app Telegram room .

Powered by fine-tuned versions of OpenAI’s models (OpenAI and Microsoft have a close working relationship ), Copilot can perform a range of tasks described in natural language, like writing poems and essays, as well as translating text into other languages and summarizing sources from around the web (albeit imperfectly ).

Copilot, like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini , can browse the web (in Copilot’s case, via Bing) for up-to-date information. It sometimes gets things wrong , but for timely queries, access to search results can give Copilot an advantage over offline bots such as Anthropic’s Claude .

Copilot can create images by tapping Image Creator , Microsoft’s image generator built on OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model . And it can generate songs via an integration with Suno , the AI music-generation platform. Typing something like “Create an image of a zebra” or “Generate a song with a jazz rhythm” in Copilot will pull up the relevant tool.

On the subject of integrations, Copilot supports plug-ins for third-party apps and websites. There’s plug-ins for Instacart (for meal planning and cooking-related questions), Kayak (for trip planning), OpenTable (for restaurant reservations) and Shopify, to name a few examples, with more being added on a semiregular basis.

Which Windows settings can Copilot control?

On Windows 11 ( but not necessarily Windows 10 ), Copilot can control certain settings and functions , acting as a digital concierge of sorts.

With Copilot, either by typing or using Windows 11’s speech recognition functionality, users can perform actions on a PC like turning the battery saver on or off, showing device and system information, launching live captions, displaying the PC’s IP address and emptying the recycle bin.

A toggle in the Copilot experience on Windows 11 switches between “Work” and “Web” mode, with the former bringing Copilot’s Microsoft 365 capabilities in the Windows interface. More on that later.

What is Copilot Pro?

Copilot Pro is Microsoft’s premium Copilot product , priced at $20 per month. It’s similar in some ways to rival generative AI chatbot plans like OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus and Google’s Google One AI Premium, but not exactly the same.

Copilot Pro customers get priority access to the most capable OpenAI models (e.g., GPT-4o ) during peak times. And select features of Copilot can only be accessed with a Pro subscription, such as higher-resolution images from Image Creator.

Copilot Pro also gives users access to generative AI functions across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. In Word and OneNote, Copilot can write, edit, summarize and generate text. Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint can turn natural language prompts into presentations and visualizations. And in Outlook, Copilot can help draft email responses with toggles for adjusting the length or tone.

For customers with a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family plan, these functions work on the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote desktop apps. Those without are limited to the web versions of these Microsoft 365 apps.

Beyond the Microsoft 365 upgrades, Copilot Pro subscribers get 100 “boosts” per day in Image Creator (versus only 15 per day for free users) to speed up the image-generation process, plus landscape formatting options. 

Importantly, Copilot Pro does not come with Copilot in Teams, a Copilot feature in Microsoft Teams that provides real-time summaries and action items while handling tasks like identifying people for follow-ups and creating meeting agendas. Copilot in Teams is exclusive to enterprise Copilot customers, meaning those with an enterprise-class (or equivalent) Microsoft 365 license.

What is Copilot for Microsoft 365?

Separate and distinct from the consumer Copilot SKU is Copilot for Microsoft 365, a suite of generative AI add-ons to Microsoft 365 with an emphasis on business applications.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is priced at $30 per user per month and available only to customers with a Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard or Business Premium license. It delivers many of the same capabilities across the Microsoft 365 family of apps as Copilot Pro, but with the addition of “enterprise-grade data protection” and the Semantic Index, a back-end system that creates a map of the data and content in an organization to allow Copilot to deliver more personalized responses.

Microsoft recently launched Microsoft 365 Chat , for example, a Copilot for Microsoft 365 tool that pulls info from content across Microsoft 365 apps (e.g., Word docs, PowerPoint presentations) to answer questions. In Excel, meanwhile, Copilot for Microsoft 365 can format data, create graphs, generate pivot tables and guide users through creating formulas and macros.

There are many, many Copilots besides. Here’s a partial list of them and their “skills”:

• Copilot in Power Pages can generate text, forms, chatbots and web page layouts and can create and edit image and site design themes.
• Copilot for Sales can help write email responses to customers or perform sales-related tasks such as sending summaries of Teams meetings through Outlook.
• Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Center can proactively flag issues like weather, financials and geography that might impact supply chain processes.
• Copilot for Service can draft answers to customer queries via chat or email and provide a chat experience for customer service agents that draws from knowledge bases as well as case history. 
• Copilot for Azure can suggest configurations for Microsoft Azure-hosted apps and environments and help with troubleshooting by identifying potential issues and solutions.
• Copilot for Security aims to summarize and “make sense” of different forms of cyberthreat intelligence.
• Copilot in Fabric helps explore, integrate, transform, prepare and visualize data.
• Copilot in Intune helps manage security policies and settings and troubleshoot device issues.
• Team Copilot can help manage meeting agendas in Teams and extend to Loop and Planner to create and assign tasks, track deadlines and notify team members when their input’s needed.

Note that some of Microsoft’s Copilots, like Copilot in Business Central , are included in the base software licenses and don’t require paying an additional fee. Others, like Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service, cost an extra $20 per user per month or $50 per user per month without a Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscription.

Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio is a dashboard that allows customers to give Copilot for Microsoft 365 access to data in their, or a third party’s, customer relationship management software, enterprise resource management systems, and other databases and repositories using prebuilt connectors or connectors they build themselves. Through Copilot Studio, customers can build guardrails for Copilots and create and publish their own custom-tailored “copilots.”

Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscribers can tap Copilot Studio to create their own copilot by describing it in natural language. Copilots can filter to specific datasets for particular teams or users, or connect to an automation, plug-in or third-party service to kick off actions or a workflow.

Copilot Studio is also where customers can craft what Microsoft calls “Copilot agents.” These AI bots leverage memory and knowledge of context to navigate different business workflows, learning from user feedback and asking for help when they encounter situations they don’t know how to handle.

What is GitHub Copilot?

Not to be confused with the other Copilots in Microsoft’s portfolio, GitHub Copilot is a set of tools for generating code and generally supporting programming work. GitHub Copilot can be installed as an extension for IDEs including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim and JetBrains, or used in the cloud with  GitHub Codespaces .

The generative AI model underpinning GitHub Copilot has been trained on billions of lines of Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go and dozens of other programming languages — many of them hosted and available publicly on GitHub. When you’re writing code, GitHub Copilot suggests code as you type; you can cycle through suggestions and accept or reject them.

GitHub Copilot can also translate code into natural language descriptions, and Copilot Extensions allow developers to extend Copilot with third-party skills.

GitHub Copilot is available for free for students and for “verified” open source contributors and educators. For individuals, it’s $10 per month. For business customers, it’s $19 per month per user. And for enterprises , it’s $39 per user per month.

Individual, business and enterprise subscribers get Copilot Chat along with GitHub Copilot, a chatbot-like flow that’s aware of the entire context of the code they’re working on and can answer questions about that code. In addition to answering coding questions, Chat can help developers fix errors and bugs and address security issues through code analysis.

The enterprise and business GitHub Copilot plans include license management, IP indemnity , organization-wide policy management and added privacy features. Enterprise customers have the ability to customize for their codebases and knowledge bases and fine-tune the underlying models, as well as access Copilot through the Microsoft Copilot on the web and use Copilot Chat on GitHub.com.

In April, GitHub launched Copilot Workspace , a sort of take on AI-powered software engineering. Workspace provides a dev environment that taps AI-powered agents to help brainstorm, plan, build, test and run code in natural language.

Issues with Copilot

Owing to the complex and fraught nature of today’s generative AI tech, Microsoft’s Copilots have their issues.

The models occasionally  make mistakes when summarizing  or answering questions because of their tendency to  hallucinate , including while summarizing meetings. The Wall Street Journal cited an instance where, for one early adopter using Copilot for Team meetings, Copilot invented attendees and implied that calls were about subjects that were never actually discussed.

As for GitHub Copilot, GitHub itself warns that it can produce insecure coding patterns , bugs and references to outdated APIs, or idioms reflecting the less-than-perfect code in its training data. The code Copilot suggests might not always compile, run or even make sense because it doesn’t actually test the suggestions.

Security and privacy concerns loom large over Copilot as well, but perhaps the elephant in the room is the unresolved fair-use question.

Like most generative AI models, the models powering Microsoft’s Copilots were trained on public data, some of which is copyrighted or under a restrictive license. Microsoft — among others — argues that the  fair-use  doctrine shields it from copyright claims. But that hasn’t stopped data owners from  filing class action lawsuits against the company , GitHub, OpenAI and many more over what owners allege are clear licensing and IP violations.

Microsoft offers policies to protect certain customers from courtroom battles arising from fair use challenges — at least in narrow circumstances. That doesn’t resolve the ethical quandary of training models on data without permission, however, which may be more than some customers can swallow.

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Hands-on: Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing can write essays and plan vacations

Bing’s new AI-powered chatbot is basically ChatGPT with ads…and one that refuses to do your homework for you. Well, sometimes.

That’s not necessarily a derogatory criticism; the new Bing is pretty amazing. In your first few minutes with the new Bing chat interface, you’ll probably see even more sophistication than the free version of ChatGPT currently offers, with lengthy, detailed responses that can help you in many walks of life. But they may end with a jarring ad that looks (and probably is) ripped straight from Bing. That said, the fresh AI experience already work shockingly well more often than not.

The new Bing experience is basically two parts. There’s the traditional search, with a list of search results and a new contextual interface to the right; and the new “Chat” interface, which can be accessed either by swiping up from the list of links or via its own link. Microsoft’s new Bing.com, for those who have access, features a large search box in the center, with room for lengthy searches of up to 1,000 characters. It’s above that search box where you’ll find the small “Chat” link.

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How to use the new Bing

Like any other search engine, the new Bing isn’t complicated to use. Type in any traditional search query (“best Caribbean vacation spots,” for example) and Bing will return a list of traditional search results. But wait — to the right is something new: a text box with a textual description of what Bing thinks would be the best vacation destinations for you to go to. This is a version of the new ChatGPT-powered conversational experience that Microsoft launched on Tuesday morning.

The key difference between the left and the right side appears to be that Bing is collating the results listed on the left — saving you a click or two, in other words. (The publishers of those sites might replace “saving” with some derivative of “robbing,” as your click helps drive them traffic and revenue.) At the end of the box, there is a list of footnotes: links that expand if you hover over them, as well as followup questions that can take the conversation further.

Bing’s new “traditional” search will add a new contextual information box to the right, leading to the chat interface.

If you click them — or the related button, “Let’s chat” — the entire interface will scroll upwards, opening up a new space above the search results. Welcome to the new Bing, powered by ChatGPT. You may see a message box under a result that allows access to the chat window, too.

The Bing search and chat is supposed to work within Edge as well, in the sidebar of the browser. Additional capabilities include the ability to summarize PDF documents and provide additional contextual information, Microsoft says. But when we downloaded the Edge Dev version in which the Bing sidebar was enabled, we couldn’t seem to trigger the function.

Welcome to Bing chat

If you’re familiar with ChatGPT, the Bing interface won’t feel all that different. The idea is that you can ask the chatbot questions, receive responses, and follow the conversation further or pursue other angles. (Clicking the Feedback section reveals that this product appears to be called Codex.)

For now, the experience is entirely free, though you’ll need to be logged into your Microsoft account to see the benefits of the chat and the new Bing experience. Until Microsoft pushes the entire Bing experience live, you’ll be forced to join a waitlist. Even then, you’ll be allowed to ask the new Bing a limited number of queries, we’re told. For now, Microsoft isn’t allowing anonymous queries, though that should be added in the future, Microsoft said.

Unfortunately, Bing’s chatbot would occasionally disconnect, generating an error message or the option to refresh the page. If you do, all of your conversations disappear. This isn’t always a problem, but Bing (and other AI) often regenerate answers that differ, so that a good, comprehensive answer might not appear again the second time you ask.

So what’s it like using Microsoft’s Bing chatbot? Anecdotally, it feels somewhat like the old days of ChatGPT. ChatGPT emerged without a number of guardrails, answering without restriction on a number of queries. Bing feels a little bit looser, though it will also set polite limitations, as well: it declined to respond when asked for the nicknames for various ethnicities (a lead-in to racist slurs) and smartly declined to answer “how to pick up a girl” as a query that objectified women. Interestingly, it then later erased the second answer entirely, responding that I had to search Bing.com to find out more.

In terms of a much more innocuous query (“Who would win in a fight, Hawkman or Captain America?”), however, Bing actually picked a winner. Well, it did, once. ChatGPT usually demurs until prompted further. Naturally, Bing will write code for you, too. Limericks? Songs? Absolutely.

The key difference between Bing and, say, Google Bard , is that Bing footnotes its responses, visually indicating what portion of its response comes from what site. At the end of the response, Bing supplies a list of links, which you can click or at least hover over for more information. It often adds a little emoji, too, humanizing the conversation.

On occasion, though, there’s also an ad. Ask Bing about a Caribbean vacation and it will close with a sponsored link; ask it how to change the RAM in your laptop and it will end with a “carousel” of shopping links. (That query completely ignored the very valid issue of exactly what type of RAM to buy or insert.)

You probably won’t care that users will pass over those links, disappointing publishers. Microsoft promises that the chat interface won’t be full of sponsored content, what you might call “advertorial.” It does matter that in the traditional Bing list of links, sponsored ads appear first ; in the chatbot, sponsored ads appear last . That may mean that consumers prefer using the chatbot to traditional links. Analysts I spoke to insist that this will change search forever; if this cultural trend takes hold, it might.

Is new Bing better than ChatGPT?

So is Bing better than Google’s Bard? Until Bard is released, we can’t say. It does offer footnotes, which Bard does not. Bing also does seem more comprehensive than what You.com offers.

Is Bing better than ChatGPT? In some ways, yes. So far Bing feels more comprehensive than the free version of ChatGPT, although OpenAI’s chatbot does seem much more willing to serve as a study aid.

When asking both engines to write an essay comparing and contrasting two artistic styles, ChatGPT actually wrote the essay. Bing just supplied an outline, forcing any student using it to do the work itself. Well, the first time, anyway. When I tried to grab a screenshot (and then copied the question again) Bing helpfully wrote the essay. If at first you don’t succeed…

In other ways, Bing limits itself much more. Bing won’t dispense medical advice, and balks at anything sexual. (Ironically, those answers can be sought using the traditional search interface.) It won’t generate content that is harmful, offensive, or copyrighted. It’s also good at preventing end runs around those restrictions. In a test asking for an Excel function to perform a specific task, the two tied: Bing gave more methods than ChatGPT, but ChatGPT’s examples not only explained the code but were much more focused.

We’ll need more study before we can definitively say one is better than the other, though.

Ultimately, though, you can’t help but feel that Bing is being extremely generous about the whole thing, as far as its competition is concerned.

“Ultimately, the choice between Bing and Google Bard may depend on your personal preferences, needs, and expectations,” Bing responded, including the emoji, when asked whether it or Bard was better. “You may want to try both of them and see which one suits you better. 😊”

This story has been updated with a video demonstration of Bing’s AI chat.

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Microsoft Word gets new AI 'Copilot' that will help write documents and essays for you

AI is going to make writing documents much faster.

What you need to know

• Microsoft has unveiled new AI capabilities coming to Office 365 at an event.
• Microsoft calls this AI "Copilot," and it will make writing Word documents easier.
• With user input, you can ask Word to generate entire texts based on your own requirements.

Microsoft has announced that it's bringing AI to all its Office applications , including Word via a new "Copilot" feature that can generate texts based on user prompts using natural language. You can ask Word to help with creating a report on a certain topic, and even point to offline source material such as other documents on your computer.

Once Copilot generates text, the user has the choice to edit it, including using the AI to rewrite certain parts in a different tone or context, or discard it completely. The AI can also do formatting, meaning users with only basic Word knowledge will be able to create more advanced layouts thanks to AI. 

Copilot can even review documents, including spelling, punctuation, and even offer suggestions and changes based on your own likes and dislikes. The design of Copilot means it should make writing and editing Word documents much faster. 

> Copilot unveiled for Microsoft 365 > Microsoft Word's Copilot will help you write documents and essays > Copilot in Microsoft Outlook can reply to emails for you > PowerPoint presentations can be created by Copilot

Here's how Microsoft describes Copilot for Word:

"Copilot in Word writes, edits, summarizes, and creates right alongside you. With only a brief prompt, Copilot in Word will create a first draft for you, bringing in information from across your organization as needed. Copilot can add content to existing documents, summarize text, and rewrite sections or the entire document to make it more concise. You can even get suggested tones—from professional to passionate and casual to thankful—to help you strike the right note. Copilot can also help you improve your writing with suggestions that strengthen your arguments or smooth inconsistencies."

AI coming to Word is just one part of today's announcements from Microsoft. Copilot is coming to all Office apps, including PowerPoint , Excel, and Outlook . Use it to reply to emails, organize data in a speadsheet, or design a presentation based on a recent essay you wrote. It can do it all.

Microsoft says AI functionality in Word will roll out over the coming months, and is in limited testing "20 customers," likely to be enterprise customers, right now.

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New AI tools help writers be more clear, concise and inclusive in Office and across the web

• Jennifer Langston

Susan Hendrich was talking with a friend who mentioned how hard a co-worker with dyslexia worked to ensure that meeting notes he was responsible for writing were error free.

Because he worried about making mistakes, he routinely brought meeting recordings home with him and labored over the summaries for hours at night.

That led Hendrich, a Microsoft group program manager and expert on natural language and AI for Microsoft Office, to wonder how her team might improve those stressful writing experiences for people whose brains process letters and words differently.

A new feature now being rolled out in Editor in Word can use more sophisticated AI to offer suggestions for rewriting full sentences rather than offering spelling or grammar fixes one at a time. In internal evaluations, it was nearly 15 percent more effective than previous approaches in catching mistakes commonly made by people who have dyslexia, Microsoft says.

That’s largely because the deep learning algorithms that can offer those rewrites were trained on large and diverse datasets, including documents written in the real world by people with dyslexia, rather than a narrow and finite set of linguistic rules.

“It was actually something that we did not expect,” Hendrich said. “But then we started doing some benchmarking and realized this can be a huge benefit to people.”

Microsoft engineers have steadily been incorporating more AI advances into its Microsoft 365 suite of products over the past several years. They now help over 200 million Office 365 users have more productive meetings, stay on top of their to-do lists, deliver more powerful presentations, preserve focus time and help people find ways to write more clearly.

Now, Microsoft is making its AI-powered writing assistance tools more widely available to enterprise and consumer customers around the world. With new features that begin rolling out today and will continue over the coming months, Microsoft Editor will give writers the option to use intelligent tools to craft more polished prose in documents, emails and posts across the web on sites such as LinkedIn, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and more.

The new tools are available through Editor in Word, Editor in Outlook and a new Editor in the browser extension, which will allow users to catch mistakes and write more confidently when crafting social media posts or communicating elsewhere on the web.

Editor’s spelling and basic grammar checks will be available to everyone, and Microsoft 365 subscribers — including the new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family productivity subscriptions announced today — can opt to use more advanced AI features that offer intelligent suggestions for making writing more concise, clear, formal and more.

The releases expand Microsoft’s advanced AI-powered writing suggestions to Outlook.com, Outlook for the web and the new browser extension, currently available for Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, in more than 20 languages. Basic spelling checks in the browser extension will be available in 89 languages.

Starting with Editor in Word and coming soon to other platforms, Microsoft 365 subscribers can also opt to see inclusive language suggestions — such as the word firefighter instead of fireman — that seek to eliminate biases based on gender, age, ability and more. In Word for the web in English, those users who want more feedback can now access whole sentence rewrite suggestions to improve fluency, conciseness and readability.

Other new AI-powered Word features, which will be expanded to other Editor offerings, can offer intelligent suggestions for spelling out acronyms, putting numbers in real-world perspective and even flagging potentially unoriginal language and allowing writers to properly cite reference material.

Susan Hendrich, an expert on natural language, leads engineers who infuse AI into Office products. Photo by Dan DeLong.

Massive scale and opportunity for impact

As Microsoft has incorporated more AI technology into its products, company executives say they’ve been keenly aware of their duty to help ensure that AI is used in ways that are responsible and thoughtful, that anticipate unintended consequences and that help meet real customer needs.

“If you think about the number of people who use Office in their daily lives, what’s unique about us is the massive scale and opportunity for impact,” said Sumit Chauhan, Microsoft corporate vice president for engineering in Office.  “The burden is really on us to get this right.”

For instance, Editor in Word’s AI-powered rewrite suggestions tool has the potential to benefit many authors — from people learning English whose omissions of “a,” “an,” or “the” aren’t always caught by traditional language checkers to busy professionals who get hundreds of emails an hour and don’t have time to labor over each response.

At the same time, AI has the potential to reinforce harmful biases that exist in society, and in the data that algorithms learn from. To address this unintended consequence, Microsoft researchers have developed a block list of words that are at greater risk of causing offense, and Word doesn’t show rewrite suggestions with those phrases.

For those who choose to use it, Editor’s inclusive language critique offers suggestions to replace language that may perpetuate biases around age, ability, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic or racial slurs, as well as outdated or sensitive geopolitical references.

The goal isn’t to correct all of society’s issues, Chauhan said, but to highlight potential blind spots and offer some general suggestions to consider.

If you think about the number of people who use Office in their daily lives, what’s unique about us is the massive scale and opportunity for impact. The burden is really on us to get this right.

“In our products, we want to be thoughtful about stereotypes in the world and to make sure our AI is not reinforcing or amplifying those,” Chauhan said.

Of course, those sensitivities vary widely by country and culture. That’s why Microsoft hires native speakers and linguistic experts in 20 languages to write the rules that guide grammar, clarity and conciseness checking — and to advise which inclusiveness critiques don’t have comparable solutions in that language or might be unwelcome in certain markets.

Considering users’ needs can be as simple as recognizing that people who are colorblind can’t distinguish between words written in red or blue and may also need dashed lines or squiggles to flag words or phrases.

Or it can be as complicated as figuring out how to handle gender-neutral pronouns in spelling and grammar critiques — something the team is experimenting with. The cultural shift to use pronouns such as “they/them” to refer to people whose gender identities are nonbinary is recent enough that there’s little data that can teach algorithms their proper usage.

For now, Editor in Word and Outlook will not flag the use of “they” in a singular context as incorrect — such as “they are taking their final exams tomorrow” rather than “she is taking her final exam tomorrow” — which Hendrich believes is a good first step toward including a wider spectrum of gender identities. But she also worries about the person who might use “they” by mistake in a cover letter and doesn’t land a job because Word’s grammar checker failed to flag it.

“We have a goal of empowering our customers to write confidently and feel like their writing reflects positively on them,” she said. “And we also have a goal to properly represent and celebrate people for their uniqueness. So, to be perfectly honest, these are the questions that I grapple with as a product creator. And I don’t always have the answer.”

Penny Collison, principal design research manager for Office, worked with researchers to develop best practices for AI-human interaction that guide designers as they develop M365 products. Photo by Dan DeLong.

Putting people at the center of AI design

Mira Lane, the lead of Microsoft’s Ethics & Society team, is charged with ensuring that the principles articulated at the highest levels of the company to guide the responsible use of AI find their way into the heads of researchers conducting user testing and the hands of engineers writing code. It starts with asking the right questions, she said.

Her team of philosophers, engineers, security experts, designers and trainers works closely with product teams to consider what data or models should be used, who might be directly or indirectly affected by a new technology, what kinds of people should be interviewed to identify unintentional harms and how those insights can be folded into product design.

“The thing that we’re trying to do is help people design technology in a really intentional way, so you really understand what the effects of the tech are and can look around the corner to how it might be used or misused,” Lane said.

For teams that incorporate AI into productivity tools, one of the most important principles is to keep people at the center of the process.

“We bring a lot of focus to making sure the experiences we’re delivering are actually valuable,” said Penny Collisson, principal design research manager for Office. “We have lots of conversations with customers where we never even mention AI. We’re talking about understanding the expressed or latent needs or pain points that people have and then we go back and try to think about how AI could fit in.”

Microsoft has developed 18 best practices that researchers and product designers use to guide their work. But a lot of that work involves listening to people with different levels of tech adoption, socioeconomic backgrounds, geography, physical abilities or attitudes about AI and privacy.

If you talk to people with learning disabilities, for instance, some have a fear of starting with a blank page. That insight helped guide improved dictation offerings in Word for the web, which makes it easier to create content with one’s voice and use speech-to-text to get thoughts down on paper.

Creating good user experiences with AI is more complicated than asking people for feedback on whether they prefer one type of control over another, or which interface is easier to navigate, said Jon Friedman, Microsoft corporate vice president for design and research.

“The kicker and power of AI is that everyone’s experience is unique. Before, we were designing for the mean because solutions were closer to one size fits all. And now we are designing each thing to be a special size to fit each individual,” Friedman said.

“So making sure we’re talking to a much broader set of people and hearing everyone’s voice is really important to give people what they truly need,” he said.

In one example, Microsoft designers and engineers who were interested in building a better screen reader for people who are blind or with low vision built a relationship with the Washington State School for the Blind and began interviewing and observing how those students consume information and approach tasks for the day. That work led to Play My Emails in Outlook mobile, which turned out to also be useful for anyone who wants a jump on their day but can’t safely look at a screen while commuting or cooking breakfast for kids.

Through interviews and equipment that simulated the experience of having macular degeneration, the design team began to understand the massive cognitive load that’s required to listen for pertinent information among a sea of extraneous details like dates and time stamps and even punctuation marks that screen readers include as they scan from left to right.

“It was like listening for a needle in a haystack, and the fatigue level was really high,” Friedman said.

So the team used AI to offer the most important information upfront and in a much more conversational way. Having Cortana, Microsoft 365’s personal productivity assistant, tell you that someone sent you an email in the past hour about scheduling a meeting this afternoon is more useful than knowing the precise time stamp, Friedman said.

Play My Emails also provides summary information like how many unread emails are in your inbox and how long it would take to listen to them. That helps people decide if they have enough commute time or brain space while they’re rushing to get out of the house to focus on the task.

“We started on this path because we thought inclusive design was an important philosophy that we needed to start living and breathing in product,” Friedman said. “But the team quickly realized that there’s a lot of instances where people are situationally blind or looking at screens when it’s not safe, and that’s when they realized this is something that could be useful for people in a lot of different contexts.”

Jon Friedman, Microsoft corporate vice president for design and research, says the power of AI to deliver unique experiences to each individual requires a more thoughtful approach to user testing. Photo by Dan DeLong.

Keeping users in control

Microsoft also wanted users to have control over its new AI-powered tools. Some of the new Editor features, like inclusive language critiques, aren’t automatically turned on but allow people to opt into using them.

Researchers also heard loud and clear from some users whose unique writing style is an important part of their brand or professional success. They didn’t want AI algorithms rewriting their prose. That’s, in part, why the Editor in Word rewrite suggestion tool includes three options that can serve as inspiration or jumping-off points for an author to build on.

“In some ways this is just exposing the idea that there are different ways to say the same thing,” Friedman said. “We believe that’s going to help with both the concept of teaching people and letting them have their own voice.”

Designers of the Editor tools regularly talk to teachers about how their students prefer to receive editing feedback and how the tools can help build students’ skills rather than simply doing tasks for them.

“Teachers don’t just want us to fix their students’ work,” Hendrich said. “They want them to be able to learn in the process. That’s why Word offers explanations, to help people write more confidently while also providing these teachable moments.”

That was one of the drivers behind the new similarity checker function in Word for the web, which can help flag unoriginal content that may have made its way into a document from the abundant reference material available online. The similarity checker also helps teach people how to properly cite others’ words or ideas, which is an important skill for students to learn and one for which teachers have said they would welcome extra help.

As Microsoft looks to the future, teams are exploring other new features made possible by advances in natural language processing, computer vision and other types of AI. That includes Presenter Coach features in PowerPoint that can tell people how often they slouch or make eye contact during a presentation. Tools in Office that help people accomplish more of their routine tasks on the go through voice interaction can free up time for more focused work.

“When you’re using our products, you’re trying to get your job done right,” Chauhan said. “Our job is to amplify that human ingenuity. So whether you’re writing a document or designing a beautiful presentation or analyzing a spreadsheet, we’re always thinking about how can we help you in that task. That’s really been the arc of AI in Office.”

Top image: Teams led by Sumit Chauhan, Microsoft corporate vice president for engineering in Office (left), and Mira Lane, who heads Microsoft’s Ethics & Society team (right), collaborate to ensure that AI-powered productivity tools are designed with the company’s values in mind. Photo by Dan DeLong.

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5 ways ChatGPT can help you write an essay

ChatGPT  is capable of doing many different things very well. One of the biggest standout features is its ability to compose all sorts of text within seconds, including songs, poems, bedtime stories, and  essays . 

The chatbot's writing abilities are not only fun to experiment with but can help provide assistance with everyday tasks. Whether you are a student, a working professional, or just trying to get stuff done, we constantly take time to compose emails, texts, reports, and more. ChatGPT can help you claim some of that time back by helping you brainstorm and even compose any text you need. 

How to use ChatGPT to write: Code | Excel formulas | Resumes  | Cover letters  

Contrary to popular belief, ChatGPT can do much more than write an essay for you from scratch (which would be considered plagiarism). A more useful way to use the chatbot is to have it guide your writing process. 

Below, we show you how to use ChatGPT for both writing and assisting and include some other helpful writing tips. 

How ChatGPT can help you write an essay

If you are looking to use ChatGPT to support or replace your writing, here are five different techniques to explore. 

It is also worth noting before you get started that other AI chatbots can output the same results as ChatGPT or are even better, depending on your needs. For example,  Copilot , Perplexity , and Gemini also have access to the internet and include footnotes linking back to the original source for all of their responses, making the chatbots solid alternatives if you rather skip out on ChatGPT. 

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Regardless of which AI chatbot you pick, you can use the tips below to get the most out of your prompts and AI assistance.

1. Use ChatGPT to generate essay ideas

Before you start writing an essay, you need to flesh out the idea. When professors assign essays, they generally give students a prompt that gives them leeway for their own self-expression and analysis. 

As a result, students have the task of finding the angle to approach the essay on their own. If you have written an essay recently, you know that finding the angle is often the trickiest part -- and this is where ChatGPT can help. 

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All you need to do is input the assignment topic, include as much detail as you'd like -- such as what you're thinking about covering -- and let ChatGPT do the rest. For example, based on a paper prompt I had in college, I asked:

Can you help me come up with a topic idea for this assignment, "You will write a research paper or case study on a leadership topic of your choice." I would like it to include Blake and Mouton's Managerial Leadership Grid and possibly a historical figure. 

Within seconds, the chatbot produced a response that provided me with the title of the essay, options of historical figures on which to focus my article, insight into what information I could include in my paper, and specific examples of a case study I could use. 

2. Use the chatbot to create an outline

Once you have a solid topic, it's time to start brainstorming what you actually want to include in the essay. To facilitate the writing process, I always create an outline, including all the different points I want to touch upon in my essay. However, the outline-writing process is usually tedious. 

With ChatGPT, all you have to do is ask it to write the outline for you. 

Using the topic that ChatGPT helped me generate in step one, I asked the chatbot to write me an outline by saying: 

Can you create an outline for a paper, "Examining the Leadership Style of Abraham Lincoln through Blake and Mouton's Managerial Leadership Grid."

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After a few seconds, the chatbot produced a holistic outline divided into seven sections, with three points under each section. 

This outline is thorough and can be condensed for a shorter essay or elaborated on for a longer paper. If you don't like something or want to tweak the outline further, you can do so either manually or with more instructions to ChatGPT. 

If you want ChatGPT to include links and sources throughout, you can ask it to and it will regenerate the answer using its web-browsing feature , further expediting your essay-writing process. 

3. Use ChatGPT to find sources

Now that you know exactly what you want to write, it's time to find reputable sources for your information. If you don't know where to start, you can ask ChatGPT.

All you need to do is ask the AI to find sources for your essay topic. The biggest thing to remember is to include the type of source you want, whether it be web pages, books, PDFs, research, papers, etc. 

Also:   How to make ChatGPT provide sources and citations

The specifics are necessary because when you specify web pages, ChatGPT will activate the web browsing feature and include web links in its article. If you use a very general prompt, however, it will likely default to generating its answer from its database, which isn't up to date. 

For example, I asked the following: 

"Examining the Leadership Style of Abraham Lincoln through Blake and Mouton's Managerial Leadership Grid."

The chatbot outputs links, accessible right at the top of the answer under the drop-down that says "Searched # of sites." Then, within the response, it will answer your prompt conversationally, also including sources with site names and links in parathesis. 

4. Use ChatGPT to write an essay

It is worth noting that if you take the text directly from the chatbot and submit it, your work could be considered plagiarism since it is not your original work. As with any information taken from another source, text generated by an AI should be identified and credited to the chatbot in your work.

In most educational institutions, the penalties for plagiarism are severe, ranging from a failing grade to expulsion from the school. A better use of ChatGPT's writing features would be to create a sample essay to guide your writing. 

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If you still want ChatGPT to create an essay from scratch, enter the topic and the desired length. For example, I input the following text: 

Can you write a five-paragraph essay on the topic, "Examining the Leadership Style of Abraham Lincoln through Blake and Mouton's Managerial Leadership Grid."

Within seconds, the chatbot gave the exact output I required: a coherent, five-paragraph essay on the topic. You could then use that text to guide your own writing. 

At this point, it's worth remembering how tools like ChatGPT work : they put words together in a form that they think is statistically valid, but they don't know if what they are saying is true or accurate. 

As a result, the output you receive might include invented facts, details, or other oddities. The output might be a useful starting point for your own work but don't expect it to be entirely accurate, and always double-check the content. 

5. Use ChatGPT to co-edit your essay

Once you've written your own essay, you can use ChatGPT's advanced writing capabilities to edit the piece for you. 

You can simply tell the chatbot what you want it to edit. For example, I asked ChatGPT to edit our five-paragraph essay for structure and grammar, but other options could have included flow, tone, and more. 

Also:  How to use ChatGPT to make charts and tables

Once you ask the tool to edit your essay, it will prompt you to paste your text into the chatbot. ChatGPT will then output your essay with corrections made. This feature is particularly useful because ChatGPT edits your essay more thoroughly than a basic proofreading tool, as it goes beyond simply checking spelling. 

You can also co-edit with the chatbot, asking it to review a specific paragraph or sentence and rewrite or fix the text for clarity. Personally, I find this feature very helpful. 

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Between overwork, underpayment and the pressure to publish, academics have plenty to worry about. Now there’s a fresh concern: ChatGPT , an artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot that creates surprisingly intelligent-sounding text in response to user prompts, including homework assignments and exam-style questions. The replies are so lucid, well-researched and decently referenced that some academics are calling the bot the death knell for conventional forms of educational assessment. How worried should professors and lecturers be?

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University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

Teachers need to work harder to get students to write and think for themselves.

Feature As word of students using AI to automatically complete essays continues to spread, some lecturers are beginning to rethink how they should teach their pupils to write.

Writing is a difficult task to do well. The best novelists and poets write furiously, dedicating their lives to mastering their craft. The creative process of stringing together words to communicate thoughts is often viewed as something complex, mysterious, and unmistakably human. No wonder people are fascinated by machines that can write too.

Unlike humans, language models don't procrastinate and create content instantly with a little guidance. All you need to do is type a short description, or prompt, instructing the model on what it needs to produce, and it'll generate a text output in seconds. So it should come as no surprise students are now beginning use these tools to complete school work.

Students are the perfect users: They need to write often, in large volumes, and are internet savvy. There are many AI-writing products to choose from that are easy to use and pretty cheap too. All of them lure new users with free trials, promising to make them better writers.

Monthly subscriptions for the most popular platform, Jasper, costs $40 per month to generate 35,000 words. Others, like Writesonic or Sudowrite, are cheaper at $10 per month for 30,000 words. Students who think they can use these products and get away with doing zero work, however, will probably be disappointed.

And then there's ChatGPT ...

Although AI can generate text with perfect spelling, great grammar and syntax, the content often isn't that good beyond a few paragraphs. The writing becomes less coherent over time with no logical train of thought to follow. Language models fail to get their facts right – meaning quotes, dates, and ideas are likely false. Students will have to inspect the writing closely and correct mistakes for their work to be convincing.

Prof: AI-assisted essays 'not good'

Scott Graham, associate professor at the Department of Rhetoric & Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, tasked his pupils with writing a 2,200-word essay about a campus-wide issue using AI. Students were free to lightly edit and format their work with the only rule being that most of the essay had to be automatically generated by software.

In an opinion article on Inside Higher Ed, Graham said the AI-assisted essays were "not good," noting that the best of the bunch would have earned a C or C-minus grade. To score higher, students would have had to rewrite more of the essay using their own words to improve it, or craft increasingly narrower and specific prompts to get back more useful content.

"You're not going to be able to push a button or submit a short prompt and generate a ready-to-go essay," he told The Register .

The limits of machine-written text forces humans to carefully read and edit copy. Some people may consider using these tools as cheating, but Graham believes they can help people get better at writing.

Don't waste all your effort on the first draft....

"I think if students can do well with AI writing, it's not actually all that different from them doing well with their own writing. The main skills I teach and assess mostly happen after the initial drafting," he said.

"I think that's where people become really talented writers; it's in the revision and the editing process. So I'm optimistic about [AI] because I think that it will provide a framework for us to be able to teach that revision and editing better.

"Some students have a lot of trouble sometimes generating that first draft. If all the effort goes into getting them to generate that first draft, and then they hit the deadline, that's what they will submit. They don't get a chance to revise, they don't get a chance to edit. If we can use those systems to speed write the first draft, it might really be helpful," he opined.

Whether students can use these tools to get away with doing less work will depend on the assignment. A biochemistry student claimed on Reddit they got an A when they used an AI model to write "five good and bad things about biotech" in an assignment, Vice reported .

AI is more likely to excel at producing simple, generic text across common templates or styles.

Listicles, informal blog posts, or news articles will be easier to imitate than niche academic papers or literary masterpieces. Teachers will need to be thoughtful about the essay questions they set and make sure students' knowledge are really being tested, if they don't want them to cut corners.

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"I do think it's important for us to start thinking about the ways that [AI] is changing writing and how we respond to that in our assignments -- that includes some collaboration with AI," Annette Vee, associate professor of English and director of the Composition Program at the University of Pittsburgh, told us.

"The onus now is on writing teachers to figure out how to get to the same kinds of goals that we've always had about using writing to learn. That includes students engaging with ideas, teaching them how to formulate thoughts, how to communicate clearly or creatively. I think all of those things can be done with AI systems, but they'll be done differently."

The line between using AI as a collaborative tool or a way to cheat, however, is blurry. None of the academics teaching writing who spoke to The Register thought students should be banned from using AI software. "Writing is fundamentally shaped by technology," Vee said.

"Students use spell check and grammar check. If I got a paper where a student didn't use these, it stands out. But it used to be, 50 years ago, writing teachers would complain that students didn't know how to spell so they would teach spelling. Now they don't."

Most teachers, however, told us they would support regulating the use of AI-writing software in education. Anna Mills, who teaches students how to write at a community college in the Bay Area, is part of a small group of academics beginning to rally teachers and professional organizations like the Modern Language Association into thinking about introducing new academic rules.

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Mills said she could see why students might be tempted to use AI to write their essays, and simply asking teachers to come up with more compelling assessments is not a convincing solution.

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"We need policies. These tools are already pretty good now, and they're only going to get better. We need clear guidance on what's acceptable use and what's not. Where is the line between using it to automatically generate email responses and something that violates academic integrity?" she asked The Register .

"Writing is just not outputs. Writing and revising is a process that develops our thinking. If you skip that, you're going to be skipping that practice which students need.

"It's too tempting to use it as a crutch, skip the thinking, and skip the frustrating moments of writing. Some of that is part of the process of going deeper and wrestling with ideas. There is a risk of learning loss if students become dependent and don't develop the writing skills they need."

Mills was particularly concerned about AI reducing the need for people to think for themselves, considering language models carry forward biases in their training data. "Companies have decided what to feed it and we don't know. Now, they are being used to generate all sorts of things from novels to academic papers, and they could influence our thoughts or even modify them. That is an immense power, and it's very dangerous."

Lauren Goodlad, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, agreed. If they parrot what AI comes up with, students may end up more likely to associate Muslims with terrorism or mention conspiracy theories, for example.

Computers are alredy interfering and changing the ways we write. Goodlad referred to one incident when Gmail suggested she change the word "importunate" to "impatient" in an email she wrote.

"It's hard to teach students how to use their own writing as a way to develop their critical thinking and as a way to express knowledge. They very badly need the practice of articulating their thoughts in writing and machines can rob them of this. If people really do end up using these things all the way through school, if that were to happen it could be a real loss not just for the writing quality but for the thinking quality of a whole generation," she said.

Rules and regulation

Academic policies tackling AI-assisted writing will be difficult to implement. Opinions are divided on whether sentences generated by machines count as plagiarism or not. There is also the problem of being able to detect writing produced by these tools accurately. Some teachers are alarmed at AI's growing technical capabilities, whilst others believe its overhyped. Some are embracing the technology more than others.

Marc Watkins, lecturer, and Stephen Monroe, chair and assistant professor of writing and rhetoric, are working on building an AI writing pilot programme with the University of Mississippi's Academic Innovations Group. "As teachers, we are experimenting, not panicking," Monroe told The Register .

"We want to empower our students as writers and thinkers. AI will play a role… This is a time of exciting and frenzied development, but educators move more slowly and deliberately… AI will be able to assist writers at every stage, but students and teachers will need tools that are thoughtfully calibrated."

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Teachers are getting together and beginning to think about these tools, Watkins added. "Before we have any policy about the use of language models, we need to have sustained conversations with students, faculty, and administration about what this technology means for teaching and learning."

"But academia doesn't move at the pace of Big Tech. We're taking our time and slowly exploring. I don't think faculty need to be frightened. It's possible that these tools will have a positive impact on student learning and advancing equity, so let's approach AI assistants cautiously, but with an open mind."

Regardless of what policies universities may decide to implement in the future, AI presents academia with an opportunity to improve education now. Teachers will need to adapt to the technology if they want to remain relevant, and incentivise students to learn and think on their own with or without assistance from computers. ®

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The word "AI" has been named the word of the year. ChatGPT has made waves since its introduction in late 2022. With every new iteration of this powerful tool, users have found innovative ways to use it to simplify and speed up their work.

Now, there are many AI writing assistants on the market, competing with ChatGPT to become the king of AI-powered writing tools. These new tools aim to simplify the writing process by generating long-form content, researching keywords, creating images from text, and more. Many bloggers are using these tools to improve their content and save time. 

However, there are some drawbacks to using AI writers. The content generated may require additional editing to ensure it's polished and accurate. AI-generated content may also lack the unique voice and style a human writer can provide. Despite this, the benefits of using AI writers, such as cost and time savings, often outweigh these minor drawbacks.

In conclusion, AI writers are an excellent solution for creating high-quality content without spending countless hours or breaking the bank. With numerous writing tools available today, content creation can be easily sped up and simplified. If you're interested in trying one of these tools, we've got you covered with our list of the best AI writers of the year. Check it out!

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1. GrammarlyGO

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✔️   You also need a grammar editor: Getting help from an AI writer is even better with one that also helps you with grammar, like Grammarly. 

✔️ Need to use it across multiple apps: With Grammarly installed on your computer, you instantly gain access to it across your favorite apps like Microsoft Word and other word processing packages. 

✔️ Want something that's easy to use — once you learn how to do it:  Once you understand how GrammarlyGO works, it's going to make your life easier and assist you in making your text better. 

❌  You're on a strict budget: No doubt, Grammarly itself is expensive, especially if you only want to pay for it on a month-to-month basis. 

❌  You don't need a grammar tool: Maybe this is overkill, depending on your situation. 

❌ You need social networking-specific tools:  GrammarlyGO doesn't offer these types of tools, at least for now. 

Even in beta, GrammarlyGO is an excellent addition to an already powerful Al-based writing tool. You can use it to become a much better writer in just a few steps. 

Check out our in-depth GrammarlyGo review for a closer look at the service, and see why it's our top AI writer pick for 2024.

Grammarly has been a reliable companion for writers, helping them polish their craft by providing suggestions that make their writing clearer, more engaging, or more effective. And now, they've taken it up a notch by introducing GrammarlyGO, a feature-packed add-on that comes bundled with the rest of the software.

To get the most out of GrammarlyGO, you must understand how Grammarly works, as the two are closely intertwined. When using GrammarlyGO, it's essential to remember the number of prompts available to you, which varies depending on the plan you choose. Whenever you ask Grammarly to improve your text, one prompt is used, regardless of whether you use the suggestion. Grammarly Free users get access to 100 prompts per month, while Grammarly Premium subscribers receive 1,000 prompts per month. For Grammarly Business users, the number goes up to 1,000 prompts per user every month.

GoogleGO AI features are classified into five categories: ideate, compose, reply, rewrite, and personalize. The ideate feature helps you generate article ideas that are exciting and thought-provoking. With Grammarly's assistance, you can develop topics like "Five ways to motivate employees" or "Name five great topics about fall" that can capture the reader's attention and spark their interest.

The compose feature is perfect when you want Grammarly to help you write something from scratch. For instance, you could ask Grammarly to help you write an announcement about your engagement or a cover letter for a new job. The more information you provide, the better the results, and GrammarlyGO can help you create a masterpiece with its advanced suggestions and insights. Adding details like the name of your fiancé and the engagement date can make your announcement even more unique. In contrast, information about the job you're applying for can make your cover letter more effective.

If you're unsure how to respond to a message, Grammarly's reply feature can save the day. You can ask Grammarly to answer questions like "What should I say to Brent about the new job?" or "How can I congratulate Tom and Becky on their upcoming nuptials?" With Grammarly's superior writing skills, you can craft an engaging, effective, and impressive response.

With these incredible features, GrammarlyGO can help you take your writing to new heights and unleash your creativity.

Please read our full GrammarlyGo review .

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✔️ You are a marketer: Anyword is the best AI writer for marketers on the planet. It helps you create content based on your company's "voice," and learns as it goes. 

✔️ You enjoy trial and error:  There's no "right" answer when it comes to AI text generation. Anyword makes it easier to tweak text once or unlimited times to help you get the text perfect for your needs. 

✔️ You need to generate unlimited words:  There are limits elsewhere, but Anyword doesn't limit how many words it will generate on a monthly basis. 

❌  You want app integration: You'll need to copy and paste text from your favorite word processor to Anyword, which can get annoying for some. 

❌ You want a free plan:  Once you exhaust your trial, you'll need to pick a free plan to continue. 

❌  You aren't a marketer:  The heavy marketing focus can't be avoided. 

Anyword offers a slick and easy-to-use interface. In mere moments, you'll be able to create excellent content that caters to your intended audience 

Check out our in-depth Anyword review for a closer look .

Are you tired of struggling to generate creative marketing copy or unsure how to optimize your existing content? Anyword is an innovative cloud-based writing tool that can help you overcome these challenges and achieve exceptional results. With Anyword's intuitive interface and user-friendly tools, you can generate, test, and optimize your copy in ways you never thought possible.

With unlimited words in each plan, Anyword gives you plenty of space to craft compelling content that truly resonates with your audience. Its advanced AI-powered algorithms can analyze your existing marketing materials and produce multiple variations of your copy, enabling you to compare and contrast different solutions and select the best option for your brand.

One of the key features of Anyword is its Brand Voice function, which enables businesses to establish a consistent identity across all their marketing materials. Whether you're refining your tone of voice, targeting your audience, or building out your messaging bank, Anyword can help you create copy that accurately reflects your brand's personality, tone, and style.

Additionally, Anyword seamlessly integrates with various platforms, from Hubspot to LinkedIn Ads, enabling you to use copy intelligence to enhance the quality of your future content. By analyzing the performance of your existing materials, Anyword empowers you to make informed decisions about optimizing your messaging for even better results.

But that's not all - Anyword's advanced algorithms can also analyze the performance of your competitors' marketing materials, giving you insights into their copy and enabling you to create content that sets you apart from the competition.

In summary, Anyword can help you unlock your creativity and produce exceptional marketing copy that resonates with your audience. With its range of user-friendly tools, advanced AI-powered algorithms, and seamless integration with various platforms, Anyword is the perfect writing tool for businesses looking to enhance their marketing efforts.

Please read our full Anyword review .

3. Articleforge

✔️ You use WordPress heavily: Articleforge works great with WordPress; get started in just a few steps. 

✔️ You want package customization:  The more you're willing to pay, the more words you can generate each month. It's flexible. 

✔️ You need marketing-based tools:  Offers SEO optimization, content in bulk, and more. 

❌  You don't want to self-edit : Articleforge may require more post-generation editing than other options, which could slow you down.

❌ You don't want to deal with duplicates:  Yes, sometimes Articleforge repeats suggestions. 

❌  If you don't want to spend more for a monthly subscription: It's cheaper to buy this on a yearly basis, and that might not be a commitment you're willing to make. 

Articleforge utilizes deep learning and AI to improve content over time, though heavy editing and fact-checking are often necessary.

Check out our in-depth Articleforge review for more information.

Articleforge is a tool that can greatly help speed up the writing process for users. It is a valuable resource for those who need to generate content quickly but do not have the time or resources to do so themselves. However, it is important to note that it is not a replacement for an experienced writer or editor. While it can provide recommendations for titles and automate SEO and WordPress publishing, it is not designed to produce ready-to-publish content.

One of the benefits of Articleforge is that it is available in seven languages, making it ideal for international blogs or multi-language sites. Users simply need to enter a few keywords and the topic they want to cover, and the platform will generate content in under 60 seconds. This generated content will use the provided keywords and cover the desired topic.

In addition to its quick and easy content generation, Articleforge also offers various integrations, including MS Word and WordPress integrations. The platform also provides integrations with other software systems like SEO AutoPilot, CyberSEO, RankerX, SEnuke TNG, and more. These integrations are easy to use, thanks to the API key offered by the platform.

While the platform is a convenient tool for creating content, its output quality falls short of expectations. As with any automated system, fact-checking is necessary for the majority of the content offered by the platform. The platform does offer better output quality with customized input. However, extensive testing is required, which can quickly exhaust the "word meter."

Overall, Articleforge can significantly expedite the writing process and help overcome writer's block. It is advisable to test it out and find a balance between the platform and tailored input to yield superior results. While it should not be relied upon as a sole source of content, using it in conjunction with other resources can help users quickly generate high-quality content.

Read our full Articleforge AI writer review .

✔️ You want a great plagiarism checker: You want to create original content, right? This checker makes sure that's true. 

✔️ You need to create content in multiple languages:  Some folks are writing content in multiple languages and Jasper lets you do this. 

✔️ You want access to a lot of features:  The team behind this solution tends to add new features on a regular basis without raising the price. That's sweet. 

❌  You don't have time to learn: Any AI writer takes time to learn. Jasper takes a little bit more time. 

❌ If you don't want to spend a lot:   Some folks might not feel the Creator package is enough and the next one is expensive. 

❌  If you aren't willing to edit a lot: Some of the content Jasper creates is better than others. Some extra editing is key. 

Jasper is a platform that is highly customizable and comes with a user-friendly interface. All the necessary tools that you need are just a click away. The platform’s content generation capabilities are hidden behind easy-to-reach templates, making it an easy-to-use tool.

Check out our review of Jasper to learn more about the AI writer.

Jasper is a powerful platform that leverages natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to analyze data from various sources across the web. With this ability, it can generate content ideas based on the relevant data you input, such as keywords, topics, and more. Jasper can help create a wide range of content formats, including blog posts, social media content, emails, and much more.

One of the most significant advantages of Jasper is that it has a tone feature that allows you to assign a corresponding tone to the copy you create if you’re targeting a specific persona. This feature is incredibly useful because it helps ensure that the content you create resonates with your target audience. Additionally, Jasper can help you improve your content through optimization recommendations, which can be accessed through numerous templates available on the platform.

If you’re short on time and need to create content quickly, Jasper is the perfect solution. It can offer content in mere seconds with just a few clicks and some input. With Jasper, you can save time and increase productivity, allowing you to focus on other essential tasks.

Another unique feature that Jasper offers is the “Boss Mode” feature, which allows you to write 5x faster. With this mode, you can give commands to Jasper, and it will do all the work for you. You can even write a complete book using this mode in just minutes. This feature is incredibly useful for writers who need to create a large volume of content in a short amount of time.

In the Boss Mode, you can also use pre-built recipes offered by the Jasper team such as “Write about (keyword),” but you also have the option of creating your own, which can be incredibly helpful if you have specific requirements for your content. By automating your writing process, you can save time and focus on other critical tasks.

Read our full Jasper review .

The best free version

✔️ You want a free plan for minor work:  If you're okay with only generating 2,000 words per month, there's a free plan for that. 

✔️ You need unlimited word generation: You can create unlimited words each month with all the paid plans. 

✔️ You want multiple tools:  New features are added often, making the product even better. 

❌  You are a marketer:  There are better options if you primarily need to write marketing copy. 

❌  You aren't willing to learn:  Here's another option that is a little bit harder to learn, at least initially. 

❌ You need app integration:  Expect to stay on the CopyAI website to get your work done, which requires copy and paste. 

CopyAI helps writers create high-quality copy with the power of AI, saving time and producing better content that resonates with your audience.

Check out our in-depth CopyAI review to see whether it's the tool for you.

CopyAI has been making waves in the world of AI writing tools, becoming a favorite among users who want to create high-quality content that can help them stand out in today's crowded digital space. The tool offers a wide range of options that allow users to get started and take their writing to the next level, from exploring various writing templates, settings, and features on the user dashboard to creating a compelling copy in minutes.

The user dashboard serves as the creative command center for CopyAI users, providing a user-friendly and intuitive interface that makes it easy to navigate through different features. From here, you can quickly access various options that can help you create content that resonates with your audience, whether you need to write a blog post about travel or an email to a potential client.

The chat feature is the default option that acts as a blank canvas to help generate inspiration. The brainstorm feature allows you to create copy such as "ten catchy Twitter headlines on holiday shopping," "the best Facebook headlines for marketing professionals," and more. If you're struggling to come up with a topic, don’t worry. CopyAI’s chat function provides prompt templates to give you a head start. These templates cover various topics, including content creation, SEO, email marketing, social media, PR and communication, sales, and strategy.

Moreover, you can create custom templates that cater to your specific needs. Each template in the collection provides various options, so whether you need a headline generator, a step-by-step guide, or a product description, CopyAI has you covered. You can even use the "rewrite content" option to enhance your written content, making it more engaging and effective.

To fully personalize your experience with CopyAI, you should create one or more brand voices. This process involves providing text that accurately describes you or your company's unique voice. This text should be between 50 and 500 words and can come from various sources such as blog articles, social media posts, website copy, marketing emails, and more. This allows CopyAI to tailor its AI-powered tools to better suit your brand's needs, making it easier for you to create content that resonates with your target audience and helps you achieve your goals.

In summary, CopyAI is a powerful AI writing tool that offers a wide range of features and options to help you create high-quality content. From the user dashboard to the chat and brainstorming features, CopyAI provides a user-friendly and intuitive interface that makes it easy to create compelling and engaging content. With custom templates and brand voices, you can personalize your experience with CopyAI and create content that resonates with your target audience, helping you stand out in today's crowded digital space.

Read our full  CopyAI review .

The best for short-form

6. Writesonic

✔️ You aren't tech savvy:  It's one of the easiest-to-use solutions on the market. 

✔️ You need lots of languages:  Writesonic supports 25 languages and counting. 

✔️ You're a freelancer:  There's a package just for you.

❌  You want to pay a lower price:  Some have criticized Writesonic for being too expensive. That's true with the Smart Team options

❌  You need more third-party integrations:  It doesn't really place nice with other software tools, which could add some time to your work. 

❌ You don't like tackling a learning curve : Like others on this list, there's a slighter higher learning curve with this one

Writesonic is an expansive AI writing platform with an intuitive interface and versatile templates for all content creation scenarios.

Check out our in-depth Writesonic review to see if this is the AI writing tool for you. 

Writesonic is an innovative content creation platform that provides users with various features and tools to generate high-quality, engaging content. One of the most impressive features of Writesonic is its versatility - it supports over 25 languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, and more. This is a significant advantage for businesses that operate in multiple regions and need to produce content in different languages.

Another notable feature of Writesonic is its tone of voice customization tool. Users can choose from various tones, including "Excited," "Creative," and more. This feature adds a unique twist to the content, tailoring it to the user's needs. However, it's essential to note that the tone of voice feature may require additional editing to ensure the content is clear and coherent.

Regarding website copywriting, Writesonic provides users with an impressive range of tools. It can create landing pages, SEO meta descriptions, and feature-rich headers and subheaders. Additionally, it allows users to create social media ads on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google . Content creators can also benefit from Writesonic's blog writing, point expansion, and text analysis tools, which can rephrase the content and improve its readability.

The platform also offers e-commerce copy creation and popular copywriting formulas, such as the "AIDA" and "Pain-Agitate-Solution" formulas. These formulas are tried and tested approaches to writing compelling, persuasive content that resonates with readers.

However, it's essential to note that the content generated by Writesonic may require significant editing from the user. While the platform does an excellent job of generating content, it's essential to ensure it's clear, coherent, and tailored to the user's needs. If you're looking for a completely hands-off approach to content creation, Writesonic may not be the best option. However, for businesses that need to generate high-quality, engaging content quickly, Writesonic is an excellent choice.

Please read our full Writesonic review .

7. Al-Writer

✔️ You want a cheap package: You can get an AI writer for as little as $19/month. 

✔️ You need clear sourcing:  No better solution is available for providing sources for all text provided. 

✔️ You want an easy solution:  A very low learning curve exists. 

❌  You want app integration:  There's seamless integration with WordPress, but that's about it. 

❌  You need marketing-specific tools:  Sorry, this one doesn't have it. 

❌ You want unlimited word generation: If you need to generate more than 120 articles per month, this is a very expensive solution. 

AI-Writer is a unique word-generating tool that simplifies text creation and editing through an intuitive user interface. However, it may not be suitable for everyone.

Check out our in-depth AI-Writer review to see if it's the solution for you. 

AI-Writer is a word generator that is easily accessible and is popular among freelancers and bloggers. It may not be as extensive as Anyword or CopyAI, which are primarily aimed at marketing and sales, but it serves its intended audience well. 

One of the most significant advantages of AI-Writer is its unparalleled sourcing capabilities. It is the only AI content generator that cites sources for "everything it writes." Additionally, it updates its sources frequently, ensuring that any article generated by it sources the latest information on the subject. This is a significant advantage, particularly for those who are writing about current events or trending topics. With AI-Writer, writers can create content that is well-researched and accurate, without having to spend hours scouring the internet for sources. 

Another significant advantage of AI-Writer is that it recognizes that not all types of content require sourcing. For instance, op-eds or personal essays don't usually require sources. AI-Writer recognizes this and hides sources and links from the main results page, making it easier for writers to focus on their content and not worry about sources.

One of the drawbacks of using AI-Writer is that its extensive sourcing process can cause a minor delay in generating results compared to other AI writing tools. Although this may not be a significant issue, the noticeable delay should be mentioned. For instance, alternative tools like GrammarlyGO offer results without hesitation. However, it is worth noting that the issue with AI-Writer is primarily due to its thorough sourcing process. 

In conclusion, AI-Writer is an excellent tool for freelancers and bloggers who want to create high-quality content. It excels in sourcing capabilities, making it a go-to tool for writers who need well-researched and accurate content. Its ability to recognize when sourcing is not required is also an added advantage. While it may not be the fastest tool on the market, its thorough sourcing process is worth the wait.

Read our full  AI-Writer review .

TechRadar's AI writer rankings

Numerous AI writing solutions are already available in the market, and we can expect more to arrive in the future. Have a look at our rankings of popular services below, and also check out the honorable mentions that currently can’t compete with the top services available.

What is an AI writer?

An AI writer is a revolutionary tool, capable of creating text and content without human help; it utilizes algorithms and machine learning to generate various AI content. From data-driven, high-value pieces to conversion-focused content perfect for marketing campaigns, AI writers can easily create just about any content.

As AI writing assistants gain exposure to various forms of real-world information, they gain proficiency in generating natural-sounding output. With their data coming from human sources, the output created also has a human-like quality. Much like how humans rely on existing content to craft something new, AI content tools scour the web for relevant data to fulfill the user's instructions, thus creating original content.

This, in a nutshell, explains what AI writing is and how it functions.

How to choose the best AI writer for you?

Let’s get this out of the way. Whichever platform you choose, you will have to do some editing, if you want to create useful texts.

Here are some of the factors you should consider when choosing the right tool for you: 

1. Ease of use

Tools that don’t require technical knowledge or prior experience should be on the top of your list. Investment in good UI means that other aspects of the tool are also likely to be of a higher quality.

While this may not be popular with everyone, the price should play a major role in deciding which tool to go for. Some are simply overpriced while not offering much more than their lower-priced competition. Pay attention to the amount of content each price plan offers.

3. High-quality output

Despite the fact that, in the end, you will be editing the texts and images the tool creates, having a tool that creates high-quality content will mean less time spent on fixing mistakes and editing.

4. Integrations

If you’re running a blog or business and have been doing so for some time, you probably have your set of tools that you use for writing content. Making sure that the new AI platform syncs well with your existing toolbox can be essential for how long and how well you utilize the AI tool.

The list above is not exhaustive, but does offer a great starting point in your quest to find the best AI writing tool for your needs.

During our assessment, we’ve evaluated various aspects such as the number of writing templates, categories, recipes, number of languages supported, grammar checkers, etc. Our goal was to create an extensive list of AI writing assistants that offer much more than simple rewording features. 

We tested the overall capabilities of the AI software, the tool's interface and ease of use, monthly article limits, SEO optimization features, and pricing, among other aspects.

In addition, we gave each platform a test article to write for us (a simple topic) and checked its sentence structure and content relevance.

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BY  Doug Aamoth 2 minute read

If you spend most of your day pecking away at a keyboard, the process of putting together words can become tedious and challenging—even if you’re an otherwise great writer.

Whether you’re crafting emails, blog posts, press releases, or meeting agendas, having a little artificially intelligent help can make a huge difference. Here are six free AI tools that can elevate your writing and save you time.

Regem AI Writer

It’s not the prettiest tool on our list by any means, but Regem AI Writer is a versatile AI content writing tool that’s truly free—no account required.

You can have it generate articles, blogs, emails, social media posts, and more. It’s a great tool for anyone looking to produce high-quality writing on the fly, without the hassle.

Agenda Runner

Another free, no-account-required offering, Agenda Runner is an AI-powered tool designed to streamline the process of creating meeting agendas.

Feed it your meeting details and preferences, and Agenda Runner generates a customized, PDF-downloadable agenda to send around.

Don’t put anything too juicy into the tool, though, since agendas are made public once they’re generated.

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Every tool that shakes up a market has been met with fears of a reduction in individual skill, the value of the finished product, or even total human obsolescence as a result of technological innovation. Computers and calculators are still avoided even in the modern academic setting, amid fears that students will not be able to write, research, or perform mathematical equations without the assistance of a machine.  

Innovations designed to ease the workflow and improve efficiency have always been met with such skepticism, and now AI is the next scrutinized advancement. 

Fear of the Calculator and an AI Essay Writer  

Much like computers and calculators before it, Kipper AI is a tool designed to assist students in their essay-writing coursework. It is a tool for improving efficiency and achieving better results from one’s work; after all, the human mind remains the guiding force behind the AI’s output. Kipper is meant to provide students with a means of completing tasks in a quick, but driven manner, taking a principled approach to an AI generator for essays. 

The Best AI for Writing Essays  

As AI becomes more integrated with modern technology, schools and companies have responded by using AI checkers such as TurnItIn and GPTZero to scrutinize submitted writing. Rather than understanding the tremendous benefit of AI essay writers to enhance productivity, schools are limiting students to traditional methods by using an AI essay detector and AI content checkers to restrict these new problem-solving resources.  

How Kipper Bypasses AI Detectors  

Kipper AI believes AI integration is an innovative step forward for productivity, and students should be familiarizing themselves with its processes rather than being discouraged from using them to their fullest potential. In accordance with this belief, Kipper AI has developed the best AI writing tool, capable of detector bypass and humanization. 

Kipper AI’s solution is to not only provide a high-quality, plagiarism-free essay writer , but to incorporate AI detection tools into its program. Using these tools in conjunction with the AI enables students to identify where their work might be flagged as AI, and rework those sections, avoiding any fears of their work being invalidated by TurnItIn or GPTZero.  

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In addition to automating tedious essay work with zero detectability, Kipper AI offers a range of other tools and services designed to help students keep up with coursework and excel in their studies. Kipper AI features a Chatbot Tutor designed to help students find answers in lengthy PDFs and YouTube videos, or other sources the professor provides. The Chatbot Tutor more than lives up to its title, able to assist and teach on tasks at any time. An AI summarizer built into Kipper AI can take those same resources and create summaries, bringing essential information to the surface from beneath pages of reading or hours of watching videos.  

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The world is based on innovation, and to deny progress in educational efficiency is to prevent students from embracing a new future. Students now have access to problem-solving skills previously unknown to other generations but are prevented from using them to their full extent. Kipper AI ensures students can make use of the tools available to them, bypassing AI detectors and allowing access to the full potential of AI. 

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Introducing Grammarly’s translation feature

Who has access: Members of any paid plan

The translation feature allows you to translate text directly within Grammarly. This way, you can stay focused on your current work and minimize the need to switch to external translation tools.

Requirements 

• To use the translation feature, generative AI must be turned on for your account.
• If you are a member of a Grammarly Business, Enterprise, or Grammarly for Education license, the license admin must first enable generative AI to access the translation feature. You can ask your admin to turn on generative AI by following the steps from this article: Enable generative AI for your team
• If you are the admin of a Grammarly license, once generative AI is turned on, you can can turn on the translation feature for your team members by opening the Organization tab in the admin panel, selecting App actions , and turning on the switch next to Translate with Grammarly .
• The translation feature is currently supported in Grammarly for Windows and Mac, in Grammarly for Chrome, and in the Grammarly Figma plugin .

How to use the translation feature

To translate text as you write with Grammarly, follow these steps:

• In the assistant that opens, start typing “translate,” and click Translate with Grammarly once this option appears.
• Type in the text you’d like to translate. You can also highlight the text, and it will be automatically inserted into the translation field.
• Select the language you’d like to translate your text into. The language of your original text will be detected automatically.
• The text you’ve entered will be instantly translated into the language that you selected.
• Click Insert to paste the translated text directly where you are writing, or select Copy to copy the text to the clipboard.

What languages can I translate from and into?

You can translate your text from and to these languages: Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English (British), English (American), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Mexico), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Is there a limit on the number of characters that can be translated at once?

Currently, it is possible to translate a maximum of 4,000 characters at once.

Is it possible to receive several translation options?

At this time, alternative translation options can be available for text under 10 words.

Is it possible to translate static text?

Translate with Grammarly is designed to work with text that you’ve written or are writing. It doesn’t currently work with static text, such as text on a web page or the text from an email you received, but it can translate text that you write as a reply.

How to submit feedback or a feature request?

Please use the Give feedback form directly within the app, message your Customer Success Manager, or contact Support .