Artificial intelligence has already found its way into Edge, Bing and Skype, and other Office applications are now to follow. The so-called co-pilot is intended to help with creating presentations, completing tasks and keeping track of things. He moves into the Microsoft 365 products and gives them the suffix “Copilot” in the name. Control Excel with natural language? No problem – at least that’s what it looks like in Microsoft’s presentation, which is broadcast live on LinkedIn. We already know such an AI assistant from Github, where the programming aid is also called Copilot, whereby the Co also comes from the word code.
Users can now ask the co-pilot to create PowerPoint slides for them. These can be based on a Word document, for example. Graphics can also be created by the AI via text request. Since the many functions of PowerPoint do not always appear intuitive to everyone, such an input can be very helpful for some people. At the same time, the AI help is reminiscent of the one that Google has just introduced: PaLM (Pathway Language Model) is to move into the workspace services Docs and Slides, Gmail will also get AI help, and anyone who wants a deeper connection can do that Use the PaLM API, which should be particularly easy to integrate via MakerSuite.
“It’s moving away from autopilot and towards copilot,” says Satya Nadella. With the autopilot, we didn’t even notice all the places where AI was already involved. Now the copilot should serve us directly. In addition to Microsoft 365 Copilot, a Business Chat will also be released. Everything conforms to Microsoft’s usual security standards, explains Jared Spataro, Microsoft vice president for modern work.
More to come.
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