Stretch out a long magic wand and say a spell to restore the broken glasses in an instant. In the movie Harry Potter, the scene where Hermione uses magic to help Harry fix his glasses is always impressive. Perhaps many people, after watching a novel or a movie of the same name, fantasize about having a magic wand that can realize their dreams.
Is there also a magic wand in real life? On April 18, at the 2023 Spring DingTalk Summit, Ye Jun, president of DingTalk, took the stage with a magic wand and brought a new product, "DingTalk Magic Wand", hoping to fully open the intelligent era of DingTalk with this product.
What is the "DingTalk Magic Wand"? How will it usher in the era of smart mobility?
When it comes to DingTalk, people in the workplace must be familiar with it. As an enterprise-level mobile office software, it has the characteristics of communication, collaboration, management and other functions, integrates DingTalk documents, video conferencing, group chat, intelligent personnel and other massive enterprise work scenarios, and is committed to helping enterprises realize the full-link digitalization of organizations and businesses.
Figure | Ye Jun
And the "DingTalk magic wand" released this time is the slash "/" we see on the keyboard. Based on this slash, the era of DingTalk's intelligence has begun.
"This slash with the most easy thumb to find on the keyboard, DingTalk gives it a whole new meaning, that is, its magical power, which is our AI ability." Ye Jun said.
So, how to use the "DingTalk Magic Wand"?
You only need to enter "/" in the corresponding usage scenario, plus the requirements you want to achieve, and you can complete the target task. For example, in the group chat dialog box, enter "/" and "help me create a schedule for Friday 9 a.m. discussion", and DingTalk can complete the corresponding intelligent matching without scheduling conflicts. It greatly simplifies traditional workflows, without leaving the existing interface, and schedule creation can be done according to the context.
DingTalk is fully integrated into Alibaba's "Tongyi Qianwen" model, covering four core application scenarios
A few days before this conference, Alibaba Cloud released its self-developed large-scale language model "Tongyi Qianqian". At the same time, Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Group, announced that all of the company's products will be connected to the "Tongyi Qianwen" model.
At the DingTalk Summit, Ye Jun announced that DingTalk is fully connected to the "Tongyi Qianwen" model, covering four application scenarios: group chat, documents, video conferencing and application development.
First of all, in the group chat scenario, through the intelligent capabilities of DingTalk AI, intelligent summaries can be quickly generated based on the content of communication in the past period, and automatic generation of recommended to-do and appointment schedules. Not only that, but the use of "/" can also generate emoticons, create copy, etc.
Secondly, in the DingTalk document scenario, based on the artificially set document structure, and then through intelligent assistance, copywriting with different language systems or styles can be quickly generated, and typeset and beautified. At the same time, you can also generate poster images, tables, etc. At present, in addition to the above capabilities, the ability of DingTalk document intelligence is still increasing.
At the same time, in the video conference scenario, enter "/" and the corresponding natural language task description, and DingTalk can intelligently generate a summary of the content involved in the meeting, so that participants can quickly understand the content of the meeting. Based on the platform-as-a-service capability based on the background cloud, video conferencing also has subtitle capabilities, and when the conference is over, participants can watch the conference playback with automatic overlay captions according to their needs.
Finally, in the application development scenario, enter "/" and the corresponding task description to quickly generate voting applications, start Q&A bots, and create applications.
So, why start with these four scenarios?
The reason is that these four scenarios have the characteristics of being frequently used by users, which is in line with the concept of inclusiveness that Alibaba has always advocated, that is, starting from a place where more people can enjoy the value, so that users can immediately feel the changes brought about by intelligence.
Assisted creation, summary summary: DingTalk's AI capabilities do not stop there
In the case of enterprise users, Ye Jun introduced a Zhejiang company, Guming, a tea brand established in 2010, which originated in Daxi Town, southern Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, and has become a chain brand covering the world, with more than 7,000 stores. With the help of the DingTalk Magic Wand, its workflow is made smarter.
Specifically, in order to complete the new launch of pineapple fresh fruit tea in April 2023, Guming usually needs to publish tweets that meet product positioning on various self-media platforms, and DingTalk's AI capabilities can help assist the completion of creation. Through the DingTalk document, enter "/", you can form different styles of product names, and form corresponding articles based on this. Then, it is possible to generate illustrations for articles related to fresh fruit tea. In addition, a table can be used to generate a description of the ingredients of this fresh fruit tea. Finally, after full-text typesetting and beautification and automatic addition of header images, an AI-assisted article is completed.
"The real ancient tea is already available in mid-April. Its real effect may be better than our design, and I understand that this is a combination of designer + AI. I think this state of work may become the norm in the future. Ye Jun said.
In June 2020, software evaluation blogger "Su Xinghe" entered the public eye. In the past three years, he has evaluated dozens of mainstream software in the market by video, and only one software has been evaluated three times.
Its evaluation of DingTalk is from shallow to deep, and for the first time, it mainly introduces the software's instant messaging, chat, voice, speech-to-text and other functions; The second introduction to several functions related to collaboration in the software was introduced; The third time is to realize many software-level functions in the movie "The Wandering Earth" through DingTalk, such as using low-code to quickly build an electronic version of the detonator installation tutorial and task collection system, build a dungeon residency lottery system, and even a large data monitoring screen.
"When a technological innovation can be involved in the way people produce, a real revolution is born. I am optimistic about the addition of the 'Tongyi Qianwen' big language model to DingTalk, because the latter is an existing typical working platform that is very focused on online multi-person collaboration. "Su Xinghe" said.
"The Magic Wand is just the beginning." Ye Jun pointed out that it first represents the beginning of DingTalk's overall intelligence, and in the future we will add more natural language understanding capabilities behind the "magic wand slash". At the same time, it is also the beginning of a new form of interaction, with the blessing of intelligent capabilities, the future of emails, documents, etc. will become different.
Subsequently, DingTalk will also open the task description, AI capabilities and entrance contacts after the "magic wand" to the ecology as much as possible, so that the ecology can accelerate the transformation of intelligence and the construction of intelligent large platforms. This is because only when the entire ecosystem works closely together can we help every business to solve problems with AI magic and truly enter the world of "everyone can magic, no Muggles".