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Microsoft on Thursday outlined plans to bring artificial intelligence to its best-known productivity tools like Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word, promising to change the way millions of people work every day. bottom.
At an event on Thursday, the company announced that Microsoft 365 users will soon be able to take advantage of its AI “Copilot” to help edit, summarize, create and compare documents. But don’t call me Clippy. This new feature is built on the same technology that underpins ChatGPT and is far more powerful (not personified) than its wide-eyed paperclip predecessor.
With this new feature, users can transcribe meeting notes during a Skype call, summarize long email threads to quickly create suggested responses, or request specific charts to be created in Excel, and save seconds. and convert Word documents to PowerPoint presentations.
Microsoft has also introduced a concept called Business Chat. It’s basically an agent that accompanies you in your work, trying to understand and make sense of your Microsoft 365 data. Agents know what’s in your email, what’s in your calendar for the day, what documents you’re working on, presentations you’re working on, people in meetings, and what’s going on in your chat. According to the company, the Teams platform. Users can then ask Business Chat to perform tasks such as summarizing all documents across the platform for a particular project to create a status report, or email to send updates to the team. You can create drafts of
Microsoft’s announcement, one month after introducing similar AI-powered features to Bing, reignites the tech industry’s arms race to develop and deploy AI tools that will change the way people work, shop and create. It was done while Earlier this week, rival Google also announced that it would bring AI to productivity tools like Gmail, Sheets and Docs.
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In a presentation to customers on Thursday, Microsoft outlined a roadmap for plans to bring artificial intelligence to Microsoft 365 services such as Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
The news comes two days after OpenAI, the creator of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology and developer of ChatGPT, unveiled its next-generation model, GPT-4. The update wowed many users with early tests and enterprise demos with the ability to draft lawsuits, pass standardized exams, and build working websites from hand-drawn sketches.
OpenAI said it added more “guardrails” to keep the conversation on track and worked to make the tool less biased. But this update, and the move by big tech companies to integrate this technology, shows how AI tools can upend jobs, enable students to cheat, and change our relationship with technology. It can raise even more difficult questions about whether it can be done. Microsoft’s new Bing browser already uses GPT-4, for better or worse.
A Microsoft spokesperson told 365 users accessing the new AI tool that they should be reminded that the technology is under development and that they should double-check their information. OpenAI has made significant improvements to its latest model, but GPT-4 has similar limitations as previous versions. The company said it could still make “simple reasoning errors” or be “overly deceived by blatantly false statements from users” and did not conduct fact-checking.
Still, Microsoft says the change will greatly improve the worker’s experience at work, as it makes work easier and easier, and allows workers to be more analytical and creative. thinking about.
