Google introduces products for enterprises that are infused with AI. One such offering is Duet AI that has recently been released ( in the last week of August 2023).

Duet AI in fact combines two models — generative language and generative imagery. As we know, generative language models learn the structures, patterns of the language through training data and by being exposed to different formats and contexts. Once a prompt is given, there is an inference.

Generative image models, as we know, produce new images. They use diffusion technique — a model learns by deconstructing a large number of images into noise. The noise is then mapped back to images. Once a prompt is given, the model resolves noise into a correlated image. It thus creates text-to-image content.

In short, Duet AI is generative AI that creates text and images. It facilitates office work. It adds to productivity of the business. Google Workspace is a suit of cloud computing. Duet AI is a part of Workspace.

Duet AI has been sufficiently tested. It can be used for client outreach, emails, job postings, project plans and summarization of content. It can create text-to-image content on Google Slides. It generates customer outreach email content in Docs, drawing from sheets carrying customer information. Even project plans can be made using sheets. Duet AI is a multi-tasker.

Duet AI has HELP ME feature that allows custom template in sheets by describing what one is planning to achieve. It thus helps in organising work. AppSheet has apps to simplify work.(with no coding). Thus it facilitates automation of workstreams.

Content on Workspace belongs to an enterprise alone. Such data is never shared by Google. An enterprise is at liberty to delete its content or export it. The data cannot be used as raw material for training LLMs and generative AI models. Privacy will be protected. Interactions with Duet AI will remain confined to organisation.

AI pair programmers, what Google calls Duet, are being used to do what software engineers do not like to do. Software engineers are not fond of writing documentation. AI model can generate it. Engineers do not write code reviews. Some experts do it. It takes time. However, the AI model can do it. Some programme may be written in Cobol. An organisation may not have anybody who understands it. It is to be converted to a modern language like Java. This is legacy conversion. Duet can automatically convert it. All this does not mean that programmers are being replaced by the model. In fact, Google helps them go faster.