from AI agent that works for you to assistant guide in Minecraft

No CEO today has Satya Nadella’s ability to get into the minds of viewers. what artificial intelligence means in every Microsoft product. If he already surprised two days ago with Windows Surface with his innate capacity for oratory and expression, a few hours ago he announced a large series of new features as if it were a tsunami digital.

If GPT-4o’s conversational mode surprised more than one during last week’s OpenAI presentation and Google had the word AI in every sentence uttered by its speakers during I/O 2024 a few years ago days, Microsoft was not going to be any less with the introduction of artificial intelligence into the vast catalog of products offered at the business and consumer level.

Follow the steps taken by Google to create new experiences based on artificial intelligence using AI agents, as if they were a kind of “servants”, or with an assistant who takes over the conversation skills of GPT-4o, etc. help the player who takes his first steps in a game like Minecraft to leave aside the old tutorials or those tips present on hundreds of websites.

Copilot AI agents were one of the biggest new features from Microsoft Build 2024. They are like “virtual employees” that businesses can use for the most repetitive and time-consuming tasks: from monitoring emails to managing automated tasks to helping with an employee in their first days with the company or in data entry. .

Microsoft, knowing the response that its AI agents could have among the general public, clarified that this new Copilot Studio functionality will not eliminate jobs, just the “boring” parts; But the effect that such experience will have will cause some jobs specifically focused on data entry to disappear.

Phi-3 AI, Edge translating videos and more

Another important novelty was a reduced version of the LLMs for use it on mobile devices locally: Phi-3 AI. It is a smaller language model, compact enough for a mobile phone and with the ability to analyze images and read text. On his blog he shows that the importance of Phi-3 lies in the privacy and security it can provide by processing the device’s AI locally without having to connect to external servers to process it. A vision shared by Apple for its AI or HONOR with Magic OS 8.0.

The two hours of Microsoft Build 2024 They have come a long way and there are some very striking new features which, in addition to being very useful for the professional and commercial environment, are also useful for the end user:

• Microsoft Edge now translates YouTube videos while they are being watched– Real-time translation with AI for platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Reuters and Coursera. And yes, it already works from Spanish to English or vice versa.
• Volumetric applications for Meta Quest: Microsoft showed a 3D view of an Xbox controller from the Meta Quest 3’s perspective. Developers can access the preview to create apps for the Meta headset.
• Custom emojis for Microsoft Teams– Video call administrators can select which emojis can be used and determine who can add them.
• A great little 8-inch PC based on Snapdragon: a developer kit in the form of a mini PC with Snapdragon We don’t know if anyone can buy it.
• Windows File Explorer with Git: Ideal for programmers when integrating Git into the Explorer file system so that they can maintain the state of the file, enter messages or its build number. And important: it now supports 7-zip and TAR compression.

Finally, and another important development at the level of Windows users, according to The edgeis the new advanced clipboard feature as part of PowerToys for Windows 11. It converts the contents of what has been copied exactly as the user wants. That is, by pressing Windows key + Shift + V, you can choose between plain text, markdown, or JSON formatting.

And best of all: OpenAI artificial intelligence can be used for other types of capabilities that allow text to be edited or summarized before pasting; similar to Logitech’s novelty for many of its keyboards and mice to invoke ChatGPT. This new feature is now available in Europe, the only thing you need to do is log in with the user used for the OpenAI AIP at developer level (this is not the same as the ChatGPT subscription).