Now you can talk to your PDF and save time for your presentation! Adobe’s inbuilt AI Assistant will become a wonderful tool. In this blog, we will provide you with insights on the latest AI Assistant by Adobe for Acrobat & Reader and how it can benefit working professionals.
Highlights:
- Adobe launches its conversational AI Assistant chatbot in beta.
- Can perform various tasks from summarizing documents to generating citations for responses.
- Will soon be a part of their new add-on subscription plan.
Adobe AI Assistant Will Change the Game
Adobe introduces AI Assistant, a conversational AI chatbot for their Acrobat & Reader users. It was built on the same Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning models that were also used in Adobe Acrobat Liquid Mode.
This official video showcases how it works:
Adobe has taken an LLM agnostic approach for its AI Assistant model. They have decided to leverage the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service for the model’s features in Reader and Acrobat. They have decided to work with and curate a vast number of technologies, business partners, and third-party models to deliver the right output based on customer needs.
What does this AI Assistant do?
Adobe’s AI Assistant is a highly functional chatbot that provides several never-before-seen benefits.
Adobe’s AI Assistant can be used to summarize PDF documents to generate easy-to-understand conclusions from large contexts. It can also answer questions based on the PDF’s content like a chatbot. You can ask it to format the output in a specific way for e-mails, presentations, and reports.
This is a vast step ahead in the field of Generative AI as it saves a lot of time for users by removing the need to read whole documents and invest copious amounts of energy. This new tool will be very helpful for students, teachers, project managers, sales teams and marketing professionals.
Here is what they said about this new tool in their blog:
“Generative AI offers the promise of more intelligent document experiences by transforming the information inside PDFs into actionable, knowledge and professional-looking content. PDF is the de facto standard for the world’s most important documents and the capabilities introduced today are just the beginning of the value AI Assistant will deliver through Reader and Acrobat applications and services.”
Abhigyan Modi, Senior Vice President of Adobe’s Department Cloud
This can help users get an idea of what is in the document with the help of an intuitive conversational interface. And if you are worried about the source and veracity of the answers generated, good news for you, Customers can readily verify the source of AI Assistant’s answers thanks to citations generated by Adobe’s proprietary AI and custom attribution engine.
Adobe is also looking to bring the smoothest document navigation experience. AI Assistant can create clickable links in the PDF document which will help users focus on the most relevant points and help them save a lot of time. It can also help in making your documents ready and presentable for different kinds of office meetings or educational slideshows.
Last but not least, Adobe pushes beyond all limits by making AI Assistant available across all document formats such as Word, PowerPoint, and meeting transcripts. This will be highly beneficial for those users who like to work with a diverse number of documents in different formats.
A recent software Chat with RTX by NVIDIA can also perform similar tasks up to an extent.
How to Access it?
The AI assistant features in the beta stage for Acrobat Standard and Pro Individual and Teams subscription plans on desktop and web. When it is made open for all, Reader and Acrobat customers can access all the AI features with a new add-on subscription plan.
Also, it is only available in English, but other languages will follow soon. For enterprise customers, a private beta is accessible.
Is it Safe to Use?
Like all Generative AI tools, one of the main concerns of Adobe’s AI Assistant has to be regarding the safety of user data and having a trustworthy customer platform.
While leveraging third-party LLMs, Adobe makes sure that they adhere to its policies and terms of use. All external models are required by Adobe to be developed keeping in mind the company’s principles of accountability, responsibility, and transparency.
Adobe also promotes guard railing of customer data by preventing third parties from training or employing customer data. This includes implementing robust testing and confidentiality protocols across all datasets. The protocols are implemented with several pre-post-processing measures and evaluation methodologies.
A New Step Into The Future
With this new AI assistant, Adobe has taken a step forward into the future with AI and documentation. Who would have thought that one day we would say goodbye to the hassles of document editing, previewing, and studying?
This tool completely transforms all forms of document access and helps solicit the most important facts from large contextual paragraphs. This is of high potential for making editor jobs easier with more focus on relevant information.’
The whole learning process also gets shifted from subjective to objective matter. Countless individuals who had to rely solely on vast documents such as study notes in the form of PDFs will find it easier to study from a summarised and organized representation of the whole content.
In short Generative AI will make the whole process of documentation more than simple.
Conclusion
Adobe’s AI Assistant is a great innovation for corporates and employees. However, we must remember that it is still in its beta phase and will need a certain amount of time before it gets rolled out in the premium version. Meanwhile, we may also find out more potential use cases of Adobe’s AI Assistant.
