WTF?! Tech companies lately are greater than keen to include AI into all the things, whether or not it is wanted and wished or not. Even the standard printing course of is getting caught within the AI hype as HP tries to show its printers into chatbot-operated machines. It is insanity!

HP not too long ago launched a brand new AI chatbot for printers, that means to deliver “clever options” that make printing extra manageable for customers. The corporate touts that its HP Print AI is the business’s first clever print expertise, with options designed to make printing frictionless and fewer difficult.

Company marketing-speak apart, HP skilled its new AI chatbot to handle the complete printing course of. The corporate that attempted to place online-only DRM restrictions into its printers now desires to rework the printing expertise, making it simpler and extra intuitive, as if hitting print is just not easy sufficient. This new “commonplace for printing” may even hold person knowledge protected and personal whereas on distant cloud servers, the corporate says, as everybody raises their eyebrows.

To be honest, the chatbot will present a number of AI capabilities and it does to have some cool options. Beginning with Good Output, which is at the moment accessible as a beta to pick clients, it will probably set the proper printing format for content material that wasn’t essentially designed to be printed, for instance internet pages, as it will probably detect undesirable parts like advertisements and irrelevant textual content and take away them from the principle content material.

The printing large says that with Good Output clients may be much less “pissed off” when making an attempt to place how-to guides, journey paperwork, on-line articles, or recipes on paper. The characteristic also can do wonders for printing spreadsheets, which is one more usually troublesome job many places of work face.

The Print AI expertise can proactively create a “printable spreadsheet,” with out splitting tables and charts throughout completely different pages. It could additionally simplify assist by offering particular directions to rapidly set up and configure a brand new printer in pure language interactions.

HP’s funding in machine studying goes past the Print AI chatbot, as the corporate can also be engaged on a cloud-based answer to enhance and improve the enterprise scanning course of referred to as ‘Scan AI Enhanced’.