The abilities you’ll gain include being able to use Copilot to read and send text messages on your Android device (via the PC, of course), or look up contact information.
You can use Copilot directly within the Settings app’s search function. Stuck looking for a specific option or setting on your PC? Simply type your query into the search bar and click “Ask Copilot in Windows (preview).”
Find out how these AI engines performed with “a free and easy game idea for a 5-year-old’s birthday party,” “a new smartphone app idea that’s likely to appeal to a lot of people, complete with a name,” and “tell me how to reset macOS and what I need to bear in mind before I do”.
Another great listicle of Copilot tips.
Microsoft also plans to integrate this entire experience into Microsoft Copilot. You’ll be able to ask “which days should I go in this week?” and you’ll get a list of suggestions based on in-person meetings, when your co-workers are planning to be in.
About half (52 percent) of those who use AI are reluctant to admit that they’ve used it for important tasks. And slightly more (53 percent) say that if they do use it on work tasks it makes them look replaceable.
In the coming months Copilot for Microsoft 365, the paid service that adds an AI assistant to Office apps, will be updated with a new auto-complete feature that offers suggestions to improve AI prompts.
This reportedly marks the first time Microsoft has deployed a major language model in a secure setting, designed to allow spy agencies to analyze top-secret information without connectivity risks—and to allow secure conversations with a chatbot similar to ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.
Microsoft just agreed to support the development of 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity around the world, a massive amount of electricity to fuel its AI ambitions and climate goals.
Using cutting-edge GenAI technology, these assistants will furnish financial experts with in-depth market insights and timely updates on investment options and customer behaviour.
This marks the first time Microsoft has developed an in-house AI model of this magnitude since investing over $10 billion in OpenAI for the rights to reuse the startup’s AI models.
It’s easy to be enchanted by AI, but sometimes harder to see whether it can make an active, accurate contribution to company efficiency and — who knows? — perhaps even profits.
Language added Wednesday to the terms of service for Azure OpenAI Service prohibits integrations with Azure OpenAI Service from being used “by or for” police departments for facial recognition in the U.S.
“We have decided to pause the rollouts of these experiences to further refine them based on user feedback.”
An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella, and co-founder Bill Gates reveals some of the high-level discussions around an investment opportunity in the months before Microsoft revealed the partnership.
“Satya and the entire senior leadership team lean on Gates very significantly. His opinion is sought every time we make a major change.”
One of the most useful functions of Microsoft Copilot in Outlook, is its ability to quickly write first drafts of emails, so that you can focus on getting the tone right, rather than typing out all the pleasantries.
using the Copilot app on the web instead of the Copilot extension in the browser seems to block ads. Why? Well, apparently, the Copilot app has a built-in ad blocker that filters out most of the ads from the web sources.
Copilot adoption is happening “faster than any suite we have sold in the past,” according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, referring to Microsoft’s Copilot software tools, which add artificial-intelligence features to company offerings like Office.
“After using ChatGPT and Copilot for over a year, I keep coming to the same conclusion — Microsoft’s Copilot is the better option and doesn’t get the credit it deserves.”
Microsoft is working hard to develop stories around AI and why organisations need to adopt it. This one, by Microsoft EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff, provides lots of links to customers who are putting AI to work
Unlike Copilot in other Microsoft 365 applications, like Word and Powerpoint, Copilot in Excel is designed to only work with data, rather than the entire document. You’ll need to select the cells you want it to work with before inputting your request.
Microsoft hasn’t said that Phi-3-mini will be the next Copilot, running locally on your PC. But there’s a case to be made that it is, and that we have an idea of how well it will work.
The companies will jointly experiment with technology like Azure OpenAI Service to develop innovative generative AI use cases across various business functions. This includes testing how Copilot for Microsoft 365 could help improve workplace productivity.
After the termination of the short-lived experiment to have the jumped-up paperclip offer its help – whether a user wanted it or not – you would have hoped that was the end of it.
To start creating new slides in Powerpoint using Copilot, all you need to do is ask it, giving it any information you feel it might need to be up to the task.
Bad actors attempt to bypass safeguards with the intent to achieve unauthorized actions, which may result in what is known as a “jailbreak.” The consequences can range from the unapproved but less harmful to the very serious.
Microsoft has now confirmed that this was a bug, and it has also added that the app is harmless as it does not run any code in the background, and no user data is captured by it.
The company is also planning to add another handy feature to Copilot in Microsoft 365 next month in the form of allowing the use of weblinks to reference files in Word…
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would make a $1.5 billion investment in G42, an artificial intelligence giant in the United Arab Emirates, in a deal largely orchestrated by the Biden administration to box out China as Washington and Beijing battle over who will exercise technological influence in the Persian Gulf region and beyond.
According to Microsoft, copilot can be configured in for commercial environments, so don’t panic. Even if Copilot is installed on Windows Server, you can get rid of it.
You might be surprised to learn that one of the best ways to save time with Copilot in Microsoft 365 is during Microsoft Teams meetings.
“Copilot opening on widescreen PCs automatically is not by itself enough to push me over the edge. But Microsoft’s systemic push to convert the Windows 11 desktop into a monetization path…is.”
To really get the best out of Microsoft Copilot in Windows 11, you need to know some tricks. And that’s basically what this guide is all about.
It seems that Microsoft is making some changes, and Copilot prompts are now available in the address bar in the Dev version of Edge. While there’s no way to get rid of these suggestions, they at least don’t appear in the Private Browsing mode.
The upgrade of over a billion Windows 10 desktops to Copilot integration has well and truly begun!
A rumored AI Explorer feature coming to Windows 11 is designed to work as a timeline you can summon on your PC. Microsoft describes this internally as a feature that lets you “retrieve anything you’ve ever seen or done on your device.”
While still in preview, it can help with everyday tasks on your PC and the Edge browser. This article shows you some tips and tricks for using Copilot in Windows 11.
Microsoft was working to develop a highly personalized Windows experience suited to every user particularly. This Windows experience might be supervised by Copilot, hence Copilot for every person.
Copilot Designer is unique in the amount of times it gives life to the worst stereotypes of Jews as greedy or mean. A seemingly neutral prompt such as “jewish boss” or “jewish banker” can give horrifyingly offensive outputs.
Microsoft is enhancing Copilot with new usage report features, offering insights into AI adoption within organizations. The updates will provide detailed analysis of active Copilot usage while respecting data protection. It will cover aspects like total active users, average daily users, and platform-specific usage. The reports can be generated for different time periods.
Hovering over the Copilot icon will reveal a menu of contextual actions showing the actions it can perform, such as generating similar images or analyzing visual content.
This strategy ensures Teams gets better integrations with Copilot – not that Teams is suddenly going to be abandoned.
It’s great for when you need to condense a lengthy report, extract key points from a contract, or get the gist of meeting minutes. Copilot can crunch through the text and spit out a concise summary in seconds.
Microsoft will remove limits on the number and length of conversations while increasing file uploads and bring expanded image generation capabilities in Microsoft Designer to users of Copilot for Microsoft 365.
“The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,” the documents read.
“Prompt Shields, which blocks prompt injections or malicious prompts from external documents that instruct models to go against their training; Groundedness Detection, which finds and blocks hallucinations…”
A new AI PC developer program will encourage software developers to leverage local hardware to build AI features into their apps.
Teams will combine spoken transcripts and written chats into a single view to make it easier to catch up on meetings you might have missed.
“Get it the **** off my system” and “in the trash where it belongs” were common refrains as users voiced their displeasure at having Copilot forced upon them. Numerous reports emerged of people immediately disabling, hiding, or removing the AI assistant from their installations.
This continues the rollout of Copilot in Windows 10 that began in November of 2023. This current rollout phase will reach most of its targeted Windows 11 and 10 devices by the end of May.
Where Copilot’s felt more like a first draft, OpenAI delivered more varied sentence structure and vocabulary for a smoother read.
There’s a character limit for user entries in Edge, but that looks like it might change thanks to an upcoming ‘Notebook’ option. Windows Latest reports that this feature will expand the character limit for prompts to 18,000 characters.
GPT-4 Turbo has been trained on data up to April 2023 and can also handle text-to-speech prompts, and its context window can accept 128,000 tokens — the highest amount offered in a GPT version.
Despite the wider availability of Microsoft Copilot Pro, Gemini Advanced may have a greater value proposition for many individuals.
He will launch a division of Microsoft that brings consumer-facing products including Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, Edge, and GenAI under one team called Microsoft AI.
Previous Microsoft-commissioned research found Copilot testers worked 29 percent faster, and 77 percent that used it for two weeks found it indispensable.
You can right-click any file inside or outside File Explorer and select between “actions” like “Send to Copilot” and “Summarize” using Copilot.
We do love a good listicle, and this one from Sportskeeda gives you lots of good tips.
“While we don’t currently support uninstalling Copilot, you can right-click the Copilot icon and unpin it to remove it from always showing on your taskbar,” the company explained.
If you use Copilot in “Balanced” mode, it will still rely on GPT-4. However, switch to “Precise” or “Creative” mode, and you’ll switch into Turbo mode as well.
It’s available as a standalone portal that can be integrated with third-party products. And it’s also available as an embedded service within Microsoft products like Sentinel, Defender XDR, Purview, Priva, and Entra.
“You can drag and drop files into Copilot seamlessly and ask questions right away. There is also support for built-in Code Interpreter, but it fails to execute some tasks like converting a DOC document to PDF…”
Microsoft is also unlocking Copilot Pro inside the Office web apps, so you don’t need a separate Microsoft 365 subscription to use the chatbot inside Word, Outlook, and other free web apps.
You can use Copilot’s AI skills to create a new presentation, organize your presentation, summarize a presentation, and answer questions about the content of a presentation.
The tool can clearly be tricked into making content it’s not “supposed” to, as evidenced by a simple rephrasing of a prompt changing Copilot’s response from refusing to make an image to generating multiple photos.
“Teams users will be able to ask questions after the meeting ends, and for every Copilot statement, there will be a citation number, clicking on which reveals various details, including the speaker the citation is attributed to on a transcript viewer…”
With Copilot GPT Builder, what Microsoft is aiming for is empowering general users with very little or no coding knowledge to develop their own AI models that help them with specific tasks.
“This prompt has been blocked,” the Copilot warning alert states. “Our system automatically flagged this prompt because it may conflict with our content policy. More policy violations may lead to automatic suspension of your access.
If your mouse cursor happens to drift over to the Copilot icon on the taskbar, the Copilot pane will open to make users aware of the delights on offer.
When testing Copilot Designer for safety issues and flaws, Jones found that the tool generated “demons and monsters alongside terminology related to abortion rights, teenagers with assault rifles, sexualized images of women in violent tableaus, and underage drinking and drug use,” CNBC reports.
Artificial intelligence is feeling harder and harder to avoid, but you still have options. Microsoft recently introduced Copilot in Windows 11, and it has taken root in its new home on the taskbar. But if you want it to disable it, you can do so.
Copilot for Finance draws on essential context from your existing financial data sources, including traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and SAP, and the Microsoft Graph.
Copilot for OneDrive will take on the role of a research assistant of sorts, being able to both find, summarize, and extract information from a wide range of files. These include text documents presentations, spreadsheets, HTML pages, PDF files…
“The principles we’re announcing today commit Microsoft to bigger investments, more business partnerships, and broader programs to promote innovation and competition than any prior initiative in the company’s 49-year history.”
The deal will see Mistral’s open and commercial language models available on Microsoft’s Azure AI platform, the second company to offer a commercial language model on Azure after OpenAI, focusing on the development of next-gen large language models.
Microsoft says it’s not only rolling this out to Windows 11, but also backporting all of the Photos’ AI edit features to Windows 10, in addition to Windows 11 for Arm64 devices.
Microsoft has revealed a new plug-in for Copilot, its AI assistant, named Power Automate that will enable users to automate repetitive and tedious tasks, such as creating and manipulating entries in Excel, handling PDFs, and file management.
“…the text generation features aren’t really all that unique in the Office apps. I feel like you can get just as good results using the free version of Copilot or even ChatGPT, but you’ll have to do the manual copy and paste…”
The renowned security expert Bruce Schneier realised that Microsoft let slip an important piece of information recently – about surveillance of their AI tools.
Will the fascination with AI-generated content die off, or will it only become more commonplace as we progress into the future? Only time will tell, but for now, Copilot really is changing the game for some people who have spent the time to learn it.
Walmart’s AI strategy boils down to finding ways to make sure shelves are never empty, whether they are in a Supercenter store or your own refrigerator.
Microsoft no longer wears gloves and makes you understand that missing out on your artificial intelligence is not an option. You don’t have to use it or pay for the boosted formula of course, but you won’t be able to pretend that Copilot doesn’t exist.
Microsoft and OpenAI have detected attempts by Russian, North Korean, Iranian, and Chinese-backed groups using tools like ChatGPT for research into targets, to improve scripts, and to help build social engineering techniques.
“Employees are asked questions about the benefits of using Copilot at work for specific tasks. Other survey questions that will ask workers to give their thoughts on the relevance of using Copilot and how it has been integrated into their business.”
“With “Explain with Copilot”, you can ask Copilot in Windows to help explain log files, code segments, or any selected content directly from within Notepad.”
Microsoft: “The Copilot icon will change appearance and animate to indicate that Copilot can help. When you hover your mouse over the Copilot icon, it will provide a menu of actions that you can take, such as summarizing or explaining the copied text.”
Mark Pesce and Drew Smith have written a white paper that lays out the basic value proposition for organisations considering a pricey subscription to Microsoft’s Copilot Pro. Is it really worth it?
Customers, excited by the vague promises and wall-to-wall coverage of how “AI is the defining technology of our time,” are increasingly left bewildered about what exactly it will do in return for all the money vendors such as Microsoft are asking for it.
One year after fully embracing generative AI chatbots, Microsoft is giving Copilot a fresh lick of paint. Copilot now has a more streamlined design on the web and in its mobile apps.
Copilot is now being positioned as the future of Microsoft’s AI efforts, which are leaning more into productivity and creation than just search.
The company said that businesses and organizations with both a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and the Copilot generative AI assistant turned on in the Windows desktop should be able to see a new toggle on the Copilot sidebar: Work and W
“It’s fundamentally a collection of links to stories from around the web about a topic, curated and summarized by a Semafor reporter. The twist is that Semafor built an AI-powered search tool…”
The recent change to make the panel wider so there’s “more space to chat” was due to Windows 11 user feedback requesting that additional real-estate.
Microsoft’s revenue and earnings not only exceeded estimates but also significantly surpassed the numbers from the year before, with AI being a star of the growth.
In a conference call discussing Microsoft’s latest earning reports, Nadella stated that since its release on Windows 11, and Windows 10, in October and December 2023, Windows Copilot has amassed more than 75 million users.
A Microsoft AI engineering leader says he discovered vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image generator in early December allowing users to bypass safety guardrails to create violent and explicit images
“Microsoft’s document is called “New Future of Work” and emerged last month with the suggestion we should not be asking how AI will impact work, but how we want it to.”
“Copilot in Microsoft 365 is only starting to roll out, so it remains to be seen if that is more useful than simply asking Bing Chat to do X or Y and pasting the result into a program…”
“We’ve moved from talking about AI to applying AI at scale,” CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement. “By infusing AI across every layer of our tech stack, we’re winning new customers and helping drive new benefits and productivity gains across every sector.”
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