David Wadhwani, Adobe’s senior vice president of digital media, speaks at the Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6 launch event in San Francisco on April 23, 2012.
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adobe on Tuesday released an artificial intelligence assistant that can create summaries of PDFs and other documents and answer questions in its Reader and Acrobat applications.
The AI assistant is currently in beta and will be available in Acrobat, with “features coming to Reader in the coming days and weeks.” news release. Adobe plans to release a subscription plan after the tool exits beta.
The AI assistant helps users digest information from long PDF documents by generating a quick summary of the content, the company said. Through a “conversational interface,” the assistant can also answer questions about the information in the document and suggest questions about the file that the user might ask.
According to a news release, Adobe says the AI assistant can generate quotes that allow users to see the source of the tool’s answers, as well as create text in a variety of formats, including emails, presentations, and reports.
Other AI models, such as ChatGPT, offer PDF readers that similarly speed up analysis of long documents, but those services require users to upload the PDF. Adobe’s AI Assistant is a built-in feature.
In an interview Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan said the new tool supports the company’s goal of “democratizing access” to the trillions of PDFs in use. He said it represents.
“Imagine opening a 100-page document and you want to understand the overview, you want to have a conversation about it, you want to ask questions,” Narayan says. “We want to correlate that with not only the entirety of the information we have within the company, but also other documents that we may have.”
Last week, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced a new tool to generate realistic high-resolution videos from text prompts. In response to a question about whether OpenAI’s model, called Sora, encroached on Adobe’s turf, Narayen said the company was “also working on a video model” and called its technology “responsible.” He said it will be applied to “tools and workflows” in “methods”. . ”
