The technology behind the world’s most talked about artificial intelligence (AI) system, ChatGPT, is being added to its most ubiquitous work software, Microsoft 365.
Microsoft is calling the system Copilot and says it will be embedded into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella said it would “fundamentally change the way we work.”
However, the firm admitted Copilot would sometimes make mistakes.
The functions of Copilot include:
Summarising the key discussion points of a conversation held on meeting software, Teams, and providing recaps for someone who joins late or misses the whole event
Creating PowerPoint presentations, including images, from prompts
Drafting emails
Analysing long email threads and documents
Creating summaries and graphs of data on Excel spreadsheets.
Chat GPT has captured the world’s attention with its ability to quickly provide human-like responses to questions, even very complicated or abstract ones.
However, those replies are sometimes inaccurate or provide completely invented information.
While the tech being deployed by Microsoft in Office365 is not simply ChatGPT itself, it is based on the same language-learning model.
The firm acknowledged that Copilot may also sometimes be “usefully wrong”.
“We all want to focus on the 20% of our work that really matters, but 80% of our time is consumed with busy work that bogs us down. Copilot lightens the load,” the tech giant said in a statement.
