Google has introduced grammar suggestions to Docs users

Google said that one in ten Gmail users overall are replying to emails with machine-generated responses, signalling broader applications for machine learning within its productivity tools.


Google Docs, the company’s online word processing service, enables any Google account owner to create documents for free. The platform is fairly robust, offering many of the basic features needed for document creation and collaboration. Google has slowly added new features that improve Docs’ usefulness for various users, and the addition of Grammar Suggestions is one of those latest changes.


There’s more. True to its promises, Google is making Smart Reply available to Hangouts chats in G Suite over the next few weeks. You no longer have to dutifully type out an “I don’t think so” when someone asks if the quarterly report is ready. Also, Gmail’s Smart Compose is no longer confined to home users. The G Suite crowd can use autocomplete to zip past the formalities and focus on the email content that really matters. All told, Google is bent on eliminating as much of the drudgery of writing as possible — even if the results can occasionally feel a bit impersonal.


Grammar-checking features aren’t new; many word processing applications, including Microsoft Word, have offered similar tools for years. Newer tools like Grammarly and Google Docs’ Grammar Suggestions differ in an important way, though, utilizing machine learning and AI to power the tools, which improve the more they’re used.