Copilot

Microsoft today demonstrated the many uses of its new 365 Copilot chatbot based on GPT-4, and the company introduced a new generative AI-based feature ...

Officials referred to it as a “sophisticated processing and orchestration engine” that combines the power of LLMs, “including GPT-4,” with the Microsoft 365 apps and a user’s business data in the Microsoft Graph, which is now accessible to everyone through natural language. “We added citations and introduced forms of friction to encourage back-and-forth collaboration [between the user and the Copilot]. “We not only built [data] grounding into the system, we built verification into the experience,” Spartaro said. The company said it is currently testing Microsoft 365 Copilot with 20 customers, including eight Fortune 500 enterprises, in order to "get feedback and improve our product as we scale." It can then use the format typically used for proposals by pulling from a user's history. “Our goal is to give people agency. “It inserts product images and pulls in relevant visuals from other files. Copilot combines a large language model (LLM) with the 365 suite and the user data contained therein. [announcing its Microsoft 365 Copilot](https://www.computerworld.com/article/3689972/microsoft-touts-new-gpt-powered-chatbot-for-dynamics-365-crm-erp-apps.html) chatbot to automate various tasks in multiple Microsoft office apps, Microsoft on Thursday demonstrated the tool’s capabilities and introduced a new extension called Business Chat. Co-pilot unlocks the other 90%,” said Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office Product Group. "You’re always in control as the author, driving your unique ideas forward, prompting Copilot to shorten, rewrite or give feedback." Copilot lightens the load," Spartaro said.

Microsoft today announced new AI features for its Power Platform, which now allows users to describe their app in natural language.

Microsoft showed how its Copilot generative AI tools will change Teams, Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and other applications.

[version](https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automate-smarter-than-ever-before-with-ai-builder-and-copilot-in-power-automate/) of Copilot in Power Automate dubbed “describe it to design it” has been in preview since October, according to Microsoft. Unlike intelligent meeting recaps in Microsoft Teams, Copilot in Viva Sales is connected to CRM data to add more context and tone to customer conversations. Users can add trigger phrases, questions, entity, messages, variables and logic to the bots. Copilot uses post-processing to add more grounding calls, responsible AI checks, security compliance and privacy reviews before delivering a query response. And users can rate the generated content with a thumbs up or down to help refine future replies. Copilot will provide citations and a snippet of the transcript. “In the coming months,” Microsoft will release pricing and licensing information, bring Copilot to all productivity apps, expand previews to more customers and provide controls information to IT [administrators](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/administration-of-microsoft-365-in-the-new-era-of-ai/ba-p/3767079) for planning. “But Copilot still saved you tons of time in the process.” Copilot can create visualizations as well. Users can view content shared during the meeting, notes and action items. Copilot can create customer proposals using OneNote files and other internal documents. Humans will always have the final say on Copilot produced content, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft unveiled its groundbreaking AI-powered Copilot, a tool designed to boost productivity and unleash creativity.

Microsoft 365 Copilot works with popular apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. It can summarize email threads, draft responses, and create calendar invites. Microsoft is testing Copilot with select customers and plans to expand the previews in the coming months.

Copilot helps to write, edit and summarise documents for you, create PowerPoint slides in seconds, as well as analyse data among other things.

Business Chat is accessible from Microsoft 365.com, Bing when the user is signed in with their work account, or from Teams. As with any new pattern of work, there will be a learning curve, but those who embrace this new way of working will quickly gain an edge. Additionally, Copilot in Teams can summarise meeting discussion points, indicate areas of agreement or disagreement, and suggest action items in real-time during the meeting. Meanwhile, Copilot in Outlook can summarise long email threads and quickly draft suggested replies, allowing users to clear their inbox in minutes instead of hours. Copilot in Word allows users to freely edit and iterate on this content, creating and prompting Copilot to shorten, rewrite, or give feedback as needed. “With our new copilot for work, we’re giving people more agency and making technology more accessible through the most universal interface — natural language.”

Microsoft, outpacing peers through investments in ChatGPT's creator OpenAI, also showcased a new "business chat" experience that can pull data and perform ...

"We often make people adapt to the machines and systems we have built," Friedman said. Fine-tuning the technology and ensuring that its answers are factual is why Microsoft is testing Copilot with some customers before a wider rollout, Friedman said. The Copilot summarized his answer thus, during the interview: "Microsoft is working on lowering the cost and increasing the speed and fidelity of the models, but did not disclose the pricing or tiring of the copilot system." Friedman pointed to Microsoft's business chat experience as the biggest development on Thursday because it can handle tasks across applications. The capabilities that Microsoft and Google showcased are similar. First open to some 20 enterprises for testing, AI will offer a draft in these applications, speeding up content creation and freeing up workers' time, Microsoft said.

According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Copilot will fundamentally change the way we work and unlock a new wave of productivity growth.

Based on technology from OpenAI, the software can draft contextual chat and email answers to customer-service queries. This can save you a lot of effort and time. You can ask it to write a message to your team about the updated product strategy. The AI tool is meant to assist applications that handle tasks such as sales, marketing and customer service. Secondly, it has launched Business Chat, which works across your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts to lessen your drudgery and make you more productive. According to Microsoft, Copilot can give you a first draft, based on the prompts you give, to edit and iterate on.

Microsoft 365 Copilot may be the biggest upgrade to Office tools in decades. OpenAI GPT4 now comes to life in our everyday work experience.

I would remind you that Generative AI is not the discovery of a new form of life. Not only is Microsoft “betting the company” on Generative AI tools, they’re building the infrastructure to support it. The GitHub Copilot shows programmers how to improve their code while they type, revolutionizing the idea of “pair programming.” And since the LLM is essentially a “learning machine,” your Copilot will get better over time. [Azure OpenAI Services](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-services/openai-service), we can expect a new industry of add-ons to appear. You can rewrite text and tell the Copilot what “tone to use.” You can ask the Copilot to find emails about a topic and summarize what was agreed. And the idea of a Copilot sense: The Copilot is good for starting something from scratch and also for fine-tuning your masterpiece. And to double down on the effort, [LinkedIn announced a series of AI enhancements](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unlock-opportunities-elevate-your-career-power-ai-tomer-cohen/) built on OpenAI too. The LLM does not share your local data, but you can “ground it” in your local information, so it develops “skills” (an AI term for learning) based on your information. Under the covers the Copilot is learning about your documents, schedule, and communications, so it gets smarter as you use it. They call it “ [Your Copilot for Work](https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/).” It’s intelligent enough to outline and summarize meetings, analyze a spreadsheet, and select graphics that fit the text or message of a presentation.

In the aim of leading the race to commercialise AI, Microsoft has announced its new Copilot software for Office programs.

[Will ChatGPT make low-code obsolete?](/will-chatgpt-make-low-code-obsolete-123501976/) — ChatGPT may do what low-code has been trying to achieve for years – putting software development into the hands of users. He added: “To build Copilot we didn’t just connect ChatGPT to Microsoft 365. While the typical user reportedly only uses a “handful of commands”, natural language input can unlock new capabilities for tasks that may feel unfamiliar. [The challenge of using ChatGPT for search engines](/challenge-of-using-chatgpt-for-search-engines-123501983/) — Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT may be emerging as complements for search engines, but there are still pitfalls to consider. [recently released GPT-4 model](/openai-releases-large-language-model-upgrade-gpt-4-123502102/) developed by [OpenAI](https://openai.com/), the new Copilot tool is a sidebar chatbot designed to improve productivity for users of [Microsoft Office](https://www.office.com/) programs such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel. While admitting that the Copilot tool is susceptible to errors, head of marketing for Microsoft 365

PRNewswire/ -- Tellius, the AI-powered decision intelligence platform, is pleased to announce Copilot, a new set of GPT-integrated product enhancements that ...

"Copilot is a natural extension of the Tellius platform to further democratize data access and speed up the journey from data to decisions." The company's platform combines AI- and ML-driven automation with a search interface for ad hoc exploration, allowing users to ask questions of their business data, analyze billions of records in seconds, and gain comprehensive, automated insights in a single platform. To get a preview at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, FL, March 20-22, 2023, [schedule a meeting here](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3813013-1&h=3996345092&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tellius.com%2F-gartner-data-analytics-summit-2023%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpr&a=schedule+a+meeting+here). Providing accurate and reliable data insights to our users is a core tenant we would never waiver from," said Hardik Chheda, Chief Product Officer at Tellius. This new feature makes it easier and faster for data experts to prepare data for analysis. The new features automatically generate natural language synonyms, code improvements, and enhanced data stories, adding to the company's existing AI-powered analytics capabilities to further enable every insights-driven organization to rapidly implement and scale self-service analytics.

Microsoft announced the integration of AI-powered into its apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. The Copilot is powered by OpenAI's ...

The Copilot is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology and will feature in the sidebar as a chatbot in Microsoft 365 apps. “Business Chat will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads,” Microsoft said. Also read:

Microsoft's new Copilot for Office documents feels like the future. The AI Copilot system can generate documents, slides, and even act as an assistant to ...

“We continue to work on making it better at doing that less, but also that the user experience really empowers people and puts them in the driver’s seat.” We expect it’s going to change the nature of a lot of jobs and create new jobs that didn’t exist before. Our plan is to move as fast as we possibly can to scale to more of enterprise in a thoughtful and responsible way and make sure the experience is awesome.” “We have to scale way bigger, so we’ve been investing more heavily and it continues to grow year over year.” Everything we’re doing in the user experience is to make it conversational and give you agency,” says Friedman. [laying off its ethics and society team](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs) that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly, Friedman says Microsoft is growing the people working on these concerns. “In the user experience we do things like put in affordances to not send something until you’ve read it, or to encourage you to try again, edit, and discard.” “In our mind we’re being thoughtfully quick,” says Friedman. “One of the ways we’re starting with Copilot is helping analyze and understand data,” says Friedman. “We’ll have more to talk about mobile in the coming months,” says Friedman. “I love that our heritage is full of products that try to adapt to people,” says Friedman. You can use it to rewrite your paragraphs with 10 suggestions of new text to flick through and freely edit, or you can have Copilot generate entire documents for you.