The ChatGPT madness doesn’t stop. The release this week of GPT-4, the new version of the language model used by ChatGPT and Bing Chat, is just the start of a full AI invasion into all of our apps.
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Microsoft is the big beneficiary, thanks to the investment of several million dollars in OpenAI, creator of GPT. It is thanks to this that it has already been able to integrate this technology into many of its products, and today it is the turn of its office automation platform.
Microsoft Copilot, an AI that helps you at work
Microsoft notes that Copilot isn’t just ChatGPT built into Word; it presents it more as an assistant, the spiritual heir to Clippy, that annoying pet that presented us with recommendations every time we tried to open a new document.
Microsoft Copilot will be able to summarize Outlook emails and Excel files using AI
The good news is that Copilot isn’t that heavy; we can only call it when we want, appearing as a floating window on the document and waiting for our commands. And you can do almost all of them.
The integration of AI into Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) applications will make our lives easier in all kinds of tasks. The most striking thing is that we can ask him to write us drafts of documents in Microsoft Word, simply by telling him what we want; although the company clarifies that these are not final documents and that it is always up to us to revise them and adapt them to what we really need. He’s also not shy about admitting that Copilot isn’t perfect and can be wrong, so we can’t let him do our job.
But this is only the beginning. Copilot will also be integrated with other applications such as PowerPoint so that it can create presentations for us based on a Word document that we have already made, or even analyze data from an Excel file and present it in an understandable way.
Outlook, the email client, also benefits from Copilot features such as the ability to summarize long email chains so you don’t have to read them all. You will also be able to create email drafts with different buttons that will allow you to vary the tone; for example, if we want it to be more or less professional and serious.
Copilot will first be available for Microsoft 365 business accounts, and the first companies are already testing it in private sessions; Microsoft is expected to announce plans and pricing for access to this technology in the coming months. Therefore, the release for personal accounts is still a long way off.
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