The announcement was made by TechRadar Pro at a virtual press meeting held via LinkedIn on March 16 by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro. report The company was heavily committed to GPT-4, the latest version of OpenAI’s language model.
GPT-4 at work
After raves about technological advances in computing that have made human life easier, video conferencing and collaboration tools For the first time, Nadella said AI not only works behind the product, but is at the heart of it. In light of this, he also called for its responsible use.
But he also said the nature of work is about to change to make our lives even easier.
Spataro then took over, presenting a segment on the need for these changes and “rediscovering the soul of the work.” He then introduced a new tool that works by combining Large Language Models (LLMs), personal data, and the Microsoft 365 apps people use every day.
he also productivity tools Built on principles of security, compliance, privacy, and responsible AI, it is safe and suitable for enterprise use.
He acknowledged that sometimes Copilot doesn’t do things right, but that it can still be “helpfully wrong”, giving users a head start on tasks. It’s a bit of a spin, but I can’t argue with him.
Time-saving GPT-4 Another section presented by the company’s corporate vice president, Sumit Chauhan, showed how users can use Copilot to add their own touch to their copy, or ask Copilot to make it more concise.
In addition, OneDrive also lets you choose which photos to automatically import by extracting them from your OneDrive photo albums.
Copilot also saves users time and allows them to “unleash their creativity at work.” It offers content drafts in the style of previous documents and intelligently draws from his existing OneNote documents, which may require less input from the user rather than starting from scratch. Language generation can be made more visual and vice versa.
However, Chauhan cautioned that a human review is still required before the output is sent to the client, but noted the potential time savings.
Additionally, Copilot can analyze Excel spreadsheets for trends and summarize them into simple breakdowns for more information. You can also generate graphs instantly from the information.
When it comes to emails, Copilot can highlight important messages, summarize threads, and even generate replies that can be made more concise or styled differently in Copilot itself.
Copilot allows users to follow meetings without physically attending. This is done by telling Copilot to take notes in your absence. This includes details such as who said what and why decisions were made. All of this can be done during a meeting as well.
Copilot can also take data from sales collateral documents, for example, and present it during client meetings. It also works with Power Automate to create automated workflows that engage when certain things happen within a document or spreadsheet.
business chat Next, Akosua Boadi-Agyemang, senior marketing manager at Microsoft, explained Business Chat. It’s essentially a version of ChatGPT that works across meeting notes, Teams chats, and documents, giving you a shared knowledge pool that gives you the information you need in seconds. , instead of time.
Similar to individual app integrations, Business Chat allows you to manually update generated content (such as SWOT analysis) to be more accurate or ask Business Chat to add new generations to its content .
co-pilot system All this is made possible by the Copilot System, the sophisticated processing engine that powers everything within Microsoft 365 Copilot, and is “all natural language accessible.”
A process called “grounding” modifies the prompt after it is written and before it is sent to the LLM. This makes the process of “prompt engineering” even easier.
Copilot is monitored in real time by experts. Because of security concerns and the desire to prevent jailbreaks where the software is used in unintended and possibly malicious ways.
The company was quick to point out that LLM and the Copilot System were insecure, but nevertheless there are ways and means to protect users and their data, and Copilot software continues to improve.
Impact of Microsoft 365 Copilot So far, OpenAI’s GPT language model has failed to intimidate users, generate pasta recipes, and more seriously, posting .
It’s not that Microsoft 365 Copilot is a “game changer,” as some people in the event chat were declaring afterwards, but rather that Microsoft is ready to take on meaningful use cases at scale when artificial intelligence is finally ready. I just made a convincing argument that it did.
Details on Copilot’s availability have been scarce, but it looks like it will be available for businesses only, at least at launch.
