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How Microsoft’s AI Copilot is Entering Our Daily Lives
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When talking about artificial intelligence, we all know ChatGPT and Midjourney, because they’ve been cleverly marketed, and they’re seen as the staple for all comparisons. However, the tech industry is always evolving, and Microsoft has been part of the biggest AI advocates. After investing over $10 billion in OpenAI, Microsoft is also pushing AI with Bing, and more important, with Windows.
Microsoft aims to make Copilot the next trendy AI by making it inevitable, and here’s how they’ll do it.
Testing the Copilot AI Android App
OpenAI quickly switched sides, with GPT-4 becoming a paid feature. For Copilot, we’re getting the opposite strategy. Copilot is already available as a free app on Android, and you can choose to use it with the latest GPT-4 model. Activating this feature will make answers slightly longer to generate, but better. We’ve tried it, and not everything is great, but let’s start with the positives.
The Copilot app is smooth, and using it is pleasant. The interface even gives you suggestions of what to ask and how to follow-up on a question. You can use your microphone if you don’t want to type, and input pictures for more complex queries.
However, after testing it, Copilot still struggles. Answers are often off, or wrong, especially when you try to find out some technical information. Even by switching the tone options to a more precise tone, the AI was frequently found to hallucinate. Moreover, we didn’t sign up to see what was offered as is, and the bot doesn’t keep any history if you quit the app at the moment. It could improve in the future, but right its use seems pretty limited compared to what ChatGPT can do with the paid version.
The comparison seems unfair, but since Microsoft is trying to push this LLM as free-for-all, it should provide better results than OpenAI’s bot.
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The Importance of The New Windows Keyboards
Our keyboards have all been pretty standard for 30 years, and apart from a few eccentric materials or features, most of them have the same layout. As CNN reported; Microsoft will replace the right CTRL key with a Copilot button. It doesn’t look like much, but we’d argue that if they had done this with Cortana, it would’ve probably been more engaging for people. The simple fact that you don’t need to look for a menu or search for it, means that people will use it more. Even pressing it by mistake could lead a user to decide to use the AI out of curiosity, so it’s definitely a smart move.
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Implementing Copilot in the Software Ecosystem
The app, the button, and all the interactive features Microsoft has presented will participate into its implementation. They even market it as ‘Your daily AI companion”. It can be used with all Microsoft’s ecosystem to automate daily tasks, as we’ve already covered almost a year ago. Microsoft 365’s components are now all interconnected, and the AI can exploit these bridges to extract info and use it in its recommendations. It can use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and your Outlook inbox and calendar.
For Microsoft, it’s a way to attract businesses that are still using several services and convince them to centralize. It’s beneficial for them, but more so for Microsoft. For instance, Azure also implements AI to optimize businesses based on their numbers, and it can help create the branding with various generators.
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Why Microsoft Faces a Challenge With Copilot
The biggest issue is that Microsoft’s services cover such a large spectrum, it’s hard for them to deliver a product that satisfies, it lacks specialization. Yet, as AI improves, and they force it on Windows (the number 1 operating system in the world), Copilot could become more famous and used than ChatGPT. Still, it’s a long shot, since Microsoft often struggles in the marketing department.
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