Hello everyone,     

In the recent months, AI technology reached a point where it became useful in many real life scenarios. However, the AI generated content is not 100% accurate, which makes this technology difficult to deploy directly to end users that expect to only receive correct information. On the other hand, users who understand that AI-generated content is only a starting point, a hint, or a suggestion, and that they are in control of the final form, will experience an increase in productivity because the AI generated content will speed up many of their tasks.

The new Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin provides the bridge between AI and Oxygen users, helping them access AI-enabled tools to speed up content creation.

The plugin contributes helper actions that can be used to generate content:
 * You can start typing a phrase and use the Continue writing action to get a suggestion for continuing the phrase.
 * You can write instructions for content that you want to be generated and use the powerful and flexible Follow instructions action to add the generated content in the document.

A group of translation actions will try to preserve the XML markup structure while translating the content to French, German, Japanese, or English.

To obtain overview information, you can use an action to summarize the selected content or to get readability suggestions.

DITA Topic Tools actions allow you to perform DITA-aware tasks, such as:
 * Automatically create the short description for a topic, summarizing its content.
 * Generate index terms in the prolog section of a topic by analyzing the topic content and extracting relevant terms.
 * Turn a phrase that enumerates some options into a list with the Itemize action.
 * Flatten a list into content that enumerates the options from the list with the Join Items action.
 * Generate a new DITA topic from a title or a short description by expanding the content.
 * Replace content with a version that improves its readability.

The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin contributes its actions to the main menu, contextual menu, and in the AI Positron Assistant view. When invoking an action, you can monitor its progress and see the results in the AI Positron Activity view.

To enable the AI features, you need to connect the plugin to the Oxygen AI Positron service platform that now uses the Open AI API to access models like Chat GPT, GPT-4, etc. The initial release of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin is currently in an experimental phase, enabling users to perform up to 250 actions per month, but we expect to provide subscription options in the near future. We anticipate releasing new features and updates often, so please share your feedback about the current version and stay tuned for exciting new versions of this plugin.

For additional information on the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin, including the installation instructions, you can check out the following article written by Radu Coravu for the Oxygen XML Blog:
https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/ai_positron.html       

Best regards,   
Alin

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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor