Microsoft's New 'Copilot' AI Can Create a PowerPoint And Even Attend Meetings
Imagine a software program smart enough to draft your emails, analyze financial reports, and even take notes for a meeting you couldn’t attend. That’s what Microsoft claims it’s created with a new feature coming to the company’s office apps.
On Thursday, the company introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot, which promises to take “the drudgery” out of everyday office work. The system takes OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology and integrates it to the Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and more.
In the apps, Copilot will appear as a text box, where you can ask the technology to complete a task through a simple prompt. The system can then take information across your Microsoft 365 accounts, such as past emails, notes and corporate documents, to come up with a response.
During the presentation, Microsoft showed that Copilot can complete various requests in seconds when it would normally take a human worker half an hour or more to do so. For example, the technology was able to write an email in Outlook to invite friends to a high school graduation party. Then in PowerPoint, Copilot was able to create a presentation to celebrate the high school student by taking photos from the user’s OneDrive account.
In another demo, Microsoft showed Copilot can generate a business proposal in Word based on the user’s past documents. The technology could then be instructed to add a short summary at the top of the proposal, along with an FAQ in the back. Finally, Copilot could translate the business proposal into a PowerPoint presentation.
Meanwhile, in Excel, Copilot was able analyze the data and give summaries on key trends. It could then create additional graphs outlying various business scenarios.
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