Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 2.0
April 23, 2024
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on is a powerful tool that helps
users increase their productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content.
Version 2.0 adds support for Vision models, allowing the
AI to also read and interpret images and thus supporting more use cases. The new
Generate Documentation Draft action makes it possible for users to
provide instructions and images to help the AI engine create a draft DITA topic.
Furthermore, this version also introduces an action that enables users to simply update the
images from a topic and have the AI analyze the images and propose content updates.
Oxygen XML Web Author users can now benefit from the new Oxygen AI Positron Assistant
Enterprise plugin. Moreover, the Oxygen XML Enterprise edition license for Oxygen XML
Editor, Author, and Developer products now includes access to the Oxygen AI Positron
Assistant Enterprise add-on at no extra cost.
Oxygen XML Enterprise Edition Includes Free Access to AI Positron Assistant
Enterprise Add-on
An Oxygen XML Enterprise edition license for Oxygen XML Editor, Author, and
Developer products now includes access to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise
add-on at no extra cost. The subscription license for Oxygen AI Positron Assistant
Enterprise add-on remains available for Oxygen Professional, Academic, and Personal
edition users that want to use the AI Positron Assistant Enterprise
Add-on.
Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise Connector for Anthropic Claude
The Enterprise version of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on introduces a
new connector for Anthropic Claude, along with the existing connectors
for OpenAI and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, thus allowing users to connect directly to
Anthropic Claude as well.
Vision Support
With the newly added vision support, the AI can now read and
interpret images, thus supporting more use cases such as generating a documentation draft
by also considering the content of some images or suggesting changes to the content of a
topic based on updated images. Images can be easily added to the prompts entered in the
Chat window using a dedicated attach action. The vision support is
available for both the version that uses the Positron Service, as well as in the
Enterprise version of the add-on (if the configured engine has vision
support).
Generate Documentation Drafts
A new action called Generate Documentation Draft is available that
can be used to create a draft DITA topic. To control the draft generation process, users
can specify the context for the new topic, instructions, and images that will be
analyzed using the vision support in a dedicated drafting configuration
file that gathers all this information. Oxygen provides a customized editing experience
in the visual Author editing mode for these draft configuration files so you can easily
create such files just by following the instructions from the visual editor.
Update the Content of a DITA Topic Based on the Images that it References
A new Update content based on images action can be used to
update the content of a DITA XML topic. This action reads the images referenced in the
topic and analyzes their content to identify any missing information from the
documentation, and suggests an update to the topic content.
Quick Assist Actions
Some of the most frequently used AI actions (e.g. Correct
Grammar, Improve Readability, Use Active
Voice) are now available as Quick Assist fixes in the editor by clicking the
bulb located on the vertical navigation stripe.
Variables to Obtain Selection with Track Changes Accepted/Rejected
Two new variables may be used when you write prompts:
${selection-original}, which expands to the selected text with all
track changes rejected, and ${selection-final}, which expands to the
selected text with all track changes accepted. Using these variables, you can provide the
AI with both the original and modified text and ask the AI engine to analyze the change.
For instance, you can determine if the AI considers that the final version demonstrates
improved readability.
Filter the List of Actions
You now have the ability to filter the list of actions to exclude those that
you do not use. An option was added in the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant
preferences page where you can specify which actions will no longer be presented in the
list of available actions.
GPT-4 Turbo
The GPT-4 Turbo Preview model, which could be used by the AI Positron Assistant
with the cloud-based Oxygen AI Positron Service or by the Enterprise add-on when
connecting to OpenAI, was replaced with the final GPT-4 Turbo engine
release.
Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise Plugin for Web Author
Oxygen XML Web Author users now have access to the new Oxygen AI Positron
Assistant Enterprise plugin for Web Author. This plugin provides connectors for direct
access to your own OpenAI account or AI service hosted on Microsoft Azure.
AI XPath Functions Updated to Allow Adding a Conversation History
The signatures of the AI XPath functions ai:transform-content
and ai:verify-content were modified to allow adding a conversation
history when the functions are used. You can add multiple pairs of user-agent data that
will be passed to the AI as the history of the conversation. This can be used for more
complex actions that need to also set a context for the AI operation.
