David Wadhwani, higher- ranking vice president of digital media for Adobe, speaks during the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6 in San Francisco on April 23, 2012.
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Adobe on Tuesday hurled an artificial intelligence assistant in its Reader and Acrobat applications that can produce summaries of and answer questions about PDFs and other validates.
The AI assistant, currently in beta, is now available on Acrobat, “with features coming to Reader over the coming days and weeks,” according to a newsflash release. Adobe plans to release a subscription plan for the tool after it is out of beta.
The AI assistant will help buyers digest information from long PDF documents by generating brief overviews of their contents, the company said. The comrade can also answer questions about the information in a document through a “conversational interface,” and suggest questions about the fill out that users might ask.
Adobe said the AI assistant can also generate citations that allow users to bear witness to the source of the tool’s answers, and can produce text for various formats such as emails, presentations and reports, according to the good copy release.
Other AI models such as ChatGPT offer PDF readers that similarly expedite analyses of lengthy validates, but those services require users to upload a PDF. Adobe’s AI assistant is a built-in feature.
In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Thoroughfare” on Tuesday, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said the new tool represents the company’s goal to “democratize access” to the trillions of PDFs in use.
“Objective imagine you’ve opened a 100-page document. You want to understand the summary, you want to have a conversation with it, you require to ask questions,” Narayen said. “You want to correlate that with other documents that you might have as justly as the entire information that you have in your enterprise.”
Last week, OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, catapulted a new tool that generates realistic, high-definition video off a text prompt. Responding to a question about whether OpenAI’s dummy, called Sora, represents an encroachment on Adobe’s turf, Narayen said the company is “working on our video models as happily” and intends to apply that technology “in a responsible way” to “tools and workflows.”
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