Microsoft's New Co-Pilot AI Will Transform How We Use Technology
Microsoft launches Copilot, a new self-aware artificial intelligence software, to work alongside Microsoft 365 apps.
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From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini extension of Bard, the potential of artificial intelligence is continuously reaching new levels and surpassing limits. Microsoft has officially jumped on board, unveiling its new AI-powered assistant: Co-Pilot.
"We believe Copilot will fundamentally transform our relationship with technology and usher in the new era of personal computing," said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a special event announcing the launch of Copilot. "This is as significant as the PC was to the '80s, the Web in the '90s, mobile in the 2000s, cloud in the 2010s.”
Microsoft has already played a large role in changing the way we use computers with the introduction of Microsoft 365 apps, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more. Now, these apps will be integrated with Copilot to unleash creativity, unlock productivity and uplevel skills.
To do this, Copilot will not only be trained on large language models (LLMs), which are used as a database to train chatbots, but it will also be trained on your or your organization’s data in the Microsoft 365 apps.
Additionally, Copilot will launch with an entirely new experience: Business Chat. This new feature will use LLMs, Microsoft 365 apps and your data to generate content based on natural language prompts. For example, with access to your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts, you can prompt it to complete tasks such as generating status updates based on meetings or chat threads. This boosts productivity and connectivity within the office by keeping coworkers up-to-date on projects.
"We believe it has the potential to help you be more knowledgeable, more productive, more creative, more connected to the people and things around you," said Nadella.
The combination of these new features exhibits a characteristic that makes Copilot stand out from other AI processes, which is its ability to act as a self-aware software.
According to Inc., Copilot can summarize emails in Outlook, analyze spreadsheets in Excel, draft replies based on meeting notes in Word, and create PowerPoint presentations based on marketing proposals. Additionally, you can type prompts such as "turn on dark mode" or "start a focus timer" and Copilot will fulfill your request. By creating these commands, Microsoft is essentially enforcing the idea of using AI to teach software how to use itself.
It’s growing harder to compete in the growing realm of artificial intelligence, but every big launch introduces new features that we couldn’t have imagined before. Now that each product is releasing at several large companies, we are curious to see which AI processes will take the lead, as well as which processes will combine features for outstanding models in the future. For now, we think Copilot has a good chance at success with its connection to the Microsoft 365 apps, and we can’t wait to see how it rolls out.
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