Generative AI seems to be the only thing Google wants to talk about at its I/O developer conference this year and unsurprisingly, one of the prime surfaces for highlighting its AI smarts is its Workspace productivity suite. Earlier this year, the company already launched limited previews of new features that help users write (and rewrite) text in Gmail and Docs. At the time, Google already noted that it planned to bring similar generative AI capabilities to Sheets and Slides. And here we are at I/O and Google is launching automatic table (but not formula) generation in Sheets and image creation in Slides and Meet. Gmail and Google Docs on mobile are also getting support for these writing helpers now, too.
As for Sheets, it’s important to stress that this is not a new tool that uses AI to let you create formulas and reason over your spreadsheets. While I’m sure that’s in the works, today the company is announcing a simpler feature.
Using a few sentences, Sheets can n...
