In a 40-minute demo, Microsoft shared more details about its new Copilot tools.

“Other times it will be usefully wrong.”Īn image showing Copilot creating a PowerPoint presentation based on a simple prompt.

“Sometimes Copilot will get it right,” said Microsoft corporate vice president of modern work and business applications Jared Spataro. Microsoft executives acknowledged the limits of their new Copilot tools in Thursday’s demo. At the very least, it will take a lot of practice and human oversight to use this new generation of AI-powered software well. While the new tools are full of potential to save people time by streamlining mundane tasks - everything from summarizing meeting notes to crunching numbers in spreadsheets - AI technology is also filled with shortcomings. Google, which is fiercely competing with Microsoft on bringing AI to the masses, announced a similar integration of AI productivity tools into its Workspace suite of apps, including Gmail and Google Docs.

By integrating it into Office 365, Microsoft will put generative AI tools in front of its more than 1 billion users, potentially reshaping how wide swaths of the global workforce communicate with each other. While ChatGPT captured the world’s attention in recent months, Microsoft’s moves stand to make this exciting and controversial technology even more mainstream. Nadella said Microsoft’s new AI products will “remove the drudgery of our daily tasks and jobs, freeing us to rediscover the joy of creation.” “Today we are at the start of a new era of computing,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a livestreamed announcement on Thursday.

The new set of tools, called Microsoft 365 Copilot, will let people do things like create PowerPoint decks with a short prompt or summarize meeting recordings.Ĭopilot runs on the same underlying AI technology that powers the buzzy viral chatbot ChatGPT, and is being tested now with a few business partners ahead of a wider release to all users in the “coming months,” according to the company. Microsoft is adding new AI features to its popular apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

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