Google updates Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides with machine intelligence features

Google is using artificial intelligence to enhance Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Calendar. The changes come as Microsoft also hustles to smarten up its Office apps with features like the Researcher and Editor capabilities in Word. Google has previously incorporated artificial intelligence into Google Photos, Inbox by Gmail, Google Translate, and Google Allo, and now it's becoming available in a few places in Google's productivity apps. Google Drive for Android is getting a new feature called Quick Access that pins the most relevant documents to the top of the app. "Based on signals like your interaction with colleagues, recurring meetings and activity in Drive, machine intelligence helps Drive understand the rhythm of your workday and offers the files you need before you even ask. Our customer research shows that Quick Access saves about 50% of the time an employee would usually spend finding a file," Prabhakar Raghavan, vice president of apps for Google Cloud, wrote in a blog post.