- Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot, integrating next-generation AI with Microsoft Graph and apps to revolutionize work. An AI assistant feature for Microsoft 365 apps and services, utilizing GPT-4 large language models and Microsoft Graph.
- Copilot works alongside users in Microsoft 365 apps, enhancing creativity, productivity, and collaboration.
- Business Chat, a new experience, leverages Copilot to provide insights and generate updates based on various data sources.
- Users retain control over the generated content and can modify or discard suggestions.
- Copilot transforms work by unleashing creativity, unlocking productivity, and upleveling skills.
- GitHub data indicates increased productivity and satisfaction among developers using Copilot.
- Copilot creates a new knowledge model within organizations, tapping into untapped data and facilitating knowledge sharing.
- Microsoft ensures enterprise readiness with the Copilot System, connecting LLMs with business data securely and privately.
- Copilot inherits security, compliance, and privacy policies from Microsoft 365, protecting tenant, group, and individual data.
- Integration with popular productivity apps ensures a consistent user experience and shared design language.
- Copilot possesses foundational skills and is designed to learn new ones, expanding its capabilities over time.
- Microsoft emphasizes responsible AI practices, guided by principles and AI standards to mitigate potential harms and biases.
- Copilot will be rolled out across various Microsoft productivity apps, with more details on pricing and licensing to come.
- Microsoft is also introducing Dynamics 365 Copilot for CRM and ERP applications.
- Microsoft aims to fulfill customers’ needs and create a brighter future of work through AI, learning and iterating along the way.
- Copilot converts user text input into content within Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
- Concerns about the chatbot include hallucinations and biases, but experts believe it could revolutionize how Microsoft users work and collaborate.
- Copilot uses Microsoft Graph to evaluate user context and available data before sending prompts to the language model.
- Word: Copilot can generate and edit text, provide rewrite suggestions, and strengthen arguments.
- Excel: it assists with data analysis, formatting, graph creation, PivotTables, trend identification, and summarization.
- Copilot can create PowerPoint presentations summarizing information, adjust styles based on prompts, and shorten lengthy presentations.
- In Outlook, it can draft emails, pull relevant information, summarize email threads, and highlight unanswered questions.
- Teams: Copilot presents meeting information, transcribes meetings, summarizes discussion points, and provides action items.
- Business Chat integrates Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps, extracting information, organizing content, and answering user questions.
- OneNote uses prompts to assist with drafting plans, generating ideas, creating lists, and organizing information.
- Viva Learning employs a natural language chat interface to help users design personalized learning journeys and discover relevant resources.