{"id":618885,"date":"2023-03-17T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/microsoft-365-copilot-uses-ai-superpowers-to-eliminate-work-drudgery\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:48:47","slug":"microsoft-365-copilot-uses-ai-superpowers-to-eliminate-work-drudgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/microsoft-365-copilot-uses-ai-superpowers-to-eliminate-work-drudgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft 365 Copilot uses AI superpowers to eliminate work drudgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<svg viewBox=\"0 0 0 0\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"none\" style=\"visibility: hidden; position: absolute; left: -9999px; overflow: hidden;\"><defs><filter id=\"wp-duotone-dark-grayscale\"><feColorMatrix color-interpolation-filters=\"sRGB\" type=\"matrix\" values=\" .299 .587 .114 0 0 .299 .587 .114 0 0 .299 .587 .114 0 0 .299 .587 .114 0 0 \" \/><feComponentTransfer color-interpolation-filters=\"sRGB\"><feFuncR type=\"table\" tableValues=\"0 0.49803921568627\" \/><feFuncG type=\"table\" tableValues=\"0 0.49803921568627\" \/><feFuncB type=\"table\" tableValues=\"0 0.49803921568627\" \/><feFuncA type=\"table\" tableValues=\"1 1\" \/><\/feComponentTransfer><feComposite in2=\"SourceGraphic\" operator=\"in\" \/><\/filter><\/defs><\/svg><svg viewBox=\"0 0 0 0\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"none\" style=\"visibility: hidden; 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position: absolute; left: -9999px; overflow: hidden;\"><defs><filter id=\"wp-duotone-blue-orange\"><feColorMatrix color-interpolation-filters=\"sRGB\" type=\"matrix\" values=\" .299 .587 .114 0 0 .299 .587 .114 0 0 .299 .587 .114 0 0 .299 .587 .114 0 0 \" \/><feComponentTransfer color-interpolation-filters=\"sRGB\"><feFuncR type=\"table\" tableValues=\"0.098039215686275 1\" \/><feFuncG type=\"table\" tableValues=\"0 0.66274509803922\" \/><feFuncB type=\"table\" tableValues=\"0.84705882352941 0.41960784313725\" \/><feFuncA type=\"table\" tableValues=\"1 1\" \/><\/feComponentTransfer><feComposite in2=\"SourceGraphic\" operator=\"in\" \/><\/filter><\/defs><\/svg><\/p>\n<div id=\"page\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/#primary\">Skip to content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<main id=\"primary\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-1661514\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/microsoft-copilot.jpg?quality=50&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Microsoft 365 copilot\" data-hero  ><\/p>\n<p><span>Image: Microsoft<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"link_wrapped_content\">\n<body><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft launched its AI for Work initiatives on Thursday, a way of applying artificial intelligence to work tasks like automating the creation of PowerPoint presentations and other tasks where AI can step in, directed by your commands. It looks <em>awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella introduced its vision for the future of work as a \u201csymbiosis\u201d between human and machine. Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 Copilot, with AI embedded in Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and more. Business Chat will serve as an assistant to that. Microsoft also applied AI to its Power Platform, a little-known tool for actually writing code \u2014 something Bing and rival ChatGPT have already shown that they can do.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft previously launched AI as a consumer initiative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1504771\/microsoft-unveils-ai-powered-bing-search-edge.html\">revealing the AI-powered Bing chatbot <\/a>at the beginning of February. While Bing was originally subject to a waitlist, it now appears that the waitlist has disappeared. Microsoft also placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1515160\/microsoft-is-making-bing-chat-less-weird.html\">Bing AI conversations under strict limits<\/a>. After going through some growing pains with reports of weird content and worse, Microsoft migrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1656353\/microsoft-edge-copilot-adds-ai-content-creation-to-your-browser.html\">Bing Chat to the Microsoft Edge browser sidebar with its Edge Copilot<\/a>, using Bing as a content-creation tool. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we are at the start of a new era of computing and another step on this journey,\u201d Nadella said. \u201cYou can say that we\u2019ve been using AI on autopilot and now moving from autopilot to copilot,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/b2c-contenthub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/copilot-word_print.png?w=1200\" alt=\"Microsoft 365 Copilot for Word\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<p>Microsoft<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That was the point of Microsoft\u2019s event: To move Bing and its AI powers from a search tool to a content-creation tool. PCWorld was one of the first publications to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1419066\/microsoft-designer-is-almost-a-masterpiece-already.html\">hands-on access with Microsoft Designer<\/a>, which uses generative AI art in conjunction with text to create flyers and the like. Rival Canva has launched a similar product, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1424421\/ai-text-generation-is-moving-mainstream.html\">Magic Write tool <\/a>that can generate text for blog posts, or supply text for flyers and the like. Microsoft has also used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/549224\/microsoft-editor-now-knows-who-to-talk-to-and-what-to-share.html\">Microsoft Editor as a subtle AI tool<\/a> to improve your writing. <\/p>\n<p>AI has simply exploded across the Internet, with multiple generative art sites and even generic chatbots. Actual chatbot integration, though, has been more limited. Slack is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1534320\/several-bots-will-be-typing-on-chatgpt-for-slack.html\">one of the few that has integrated chatbot plans<\/a>, and Google lurks on the horizon, too.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, though, was pretty up-front: Microsoft 365 Copilot may still be \u201cusefully wrong,\u201d so that you\u2019ll still need to check your work.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft 365 Copilot will essentially serve as a copilot for your productivity, with Business Chat supplementing Bing Chat in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The company showed how Copilot will live in the taskbar at the top of apps like PowerPoint, excel, OneNote and more. You\u2019ll be able to interact with Copilot in the sidebar of the app, asking Copilot questions, directing it to create copy, and so on. Executives showed off how it can be used to expand text, shorten it, and add images too.<\/p>\n<p>In Word, Copilot can create copy, managing the copy by lengthening it or changing the tone.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/b2c-contenthub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/copilot_word_gifs_print.gif\" alt=\"Microsoft 365 Copilot for Word\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\"><figcaption>Microsoft 365 Copilot in action, helping in Word.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Microsoft<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copilot with Business Chat also understands what you\u2019re doing and what documents are relevant to you, pulling in related materials you are working on as appropriate. In PowerPoint, Copilot can be used to design slides, adding animations and images, and even create speaker notes.<\/p>\n<p>In Excel, you can ask questions of the data, creating a \u201cplayground\u201d to interact it with in a new sheet, executives said. Natural language can be applied to highlight specific cells, without referring to them by name. Naturally, you can ask it to add a graph to the data, too.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>In Outlook, Copilot can summarize a string of emails, and respond to them as well. <\/p>\n<p>In Teams, Copilot can even perform summarization in real time, highlighting who said what, and interacting with interactive Loop documents, according to Charles Lamanna, the corporate vice president in charge of the Power Platform.<\/p>\n<p>Lamanna also showed off how the Power Platform, specifically Power Automate, could be used to write an \u201capp\u201d that would alert you of a problem with a client, and summarize the problem. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the months ahead, we\u2019re bringing Copilot to all our productivity apps\u2014Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Viva, Power Platform, and more,\u201d according to , the corporate vice president of Microsoft 365.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-microsoft-365-business-chat\">What is Microsoft 365 Business Chat?<\/h2>\n<p>Business Chat \u201cworks to apply all your data into knowledge,\u201d said Spataro. Think of it as a private, personal Teams or Slack channel devoted just to you. Within Teams, the Copilot channel can be used to prep you on what happened at recent meetings, and what you need to prepare for upcoming meetings, too. Like Bing Chat, it even annotates the information with its sources.<\/p>\n<p>The natural language powers were impressive, as an executive asked it for \u201cupcoming risks.\u201d (It also showed an error, which the user corrected.) You can then apply the changes in PowerPoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new tool will usher in a new era of computing,\u201d Spataro said. <\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/div>\n<div data-ga=\"article-footer-author\">\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/author\/mhachman\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\tAuthor: Mark Hachman<\/a>, Senior Editor\t\t<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/author_photo_Mark-Hachman_1632347568-48.jpeg?quality=50&#038;strip=all&#038;w=116&#038;h=116&#038;crop=1\" height=\"125\" width=\"125\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>As PCWorld&#8217;s senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among other beats. 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