Microsoft wants to make its AI software Copilot more of a personal assistant for users. In the future, Copilot will, among other things, be able to read out a summary of current news and have conversations with people. Another new feature is called Copilot Vision and can answer questions about what you’re currently seeing on a website.
In the first phase, this only works on selected pages, as Microsoft restricted. The data is not stored permanently and is not used to train the AI models. The group was recently criticized for the security measures in a function for PCs that takes screen recordings so that users can quickly find things again. The Copilot improvements are Microsoft’s next step in an AI race with Google, Apple, Facebook Group Meta and several start-ups.
“AI companions for everyone”
Microsoft Copilot
Image: Microsoft The Windows company secured early access to technology from the ChatGPT developer OpenAI with a pact worth billions and can build on it. At the same time, Apple and Google can build new functions with artificial intelligence directly into the two smartphone platforms. Microsoft Copilot runs in an app on cell phones – but the company can integrate the software more deeply into its Windows PC platform.
To introduce the new functions, the prominent AI developer Mustafa Suleyman, who joined Microsoft this year from the start-up Inflection AI, outlined the vision of an “AI companion for everyone” that, for example, automatically takes notes during a doctor’s visit I could also help with planning a child’s birthday party. However, the path to this future, in which software can advise people on complex life decisions, will take years.
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