Action Reaction. If a week and a half ago Google used its developer conference to finally reveal how and for what it would use artificial intelligence in its products after weeks of much nervousness, rumors and bickering, now Microsoft He has done the same in his annual conclave, which is held from this Tuesday until next Thursday.
It was clear that the event was going to revolve around AI and Satya Nadella’s company has not been slow to reveal how it will continue to exploit the technology that it has received as a dowry in its marriage with OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, a company in which it has invested more of 10,000 million dollars.
So far, you have integrated it into your Edge browser, your Bing search engine, or the GitHub or Office code and development platform. Now it is the turn of its flagship product: Windows 11. Microsoft has created a new assistant in the form of a chatbot that will ‘retire’ Cortana and that is integrated, for now, in the latest version of its operating system.
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This new functionality will use the Copilot branding, a name that has already been seen in other products powered by generative artificial intelligence launched in recent weeks. Actually, the choice of that denomination is quite significant of the moment that this technology is going through: exporting a formula, that of the chatbot, over and over again to different products.
The chatbot that will be displayed in a sidebarhe from the desktop, but it can also be used when we have any type of application or program open. It will not replace the traditional search bar, but it will be activated with a new button similar to the one that already existed for Cortana.
The formula is well known: a chatbot. It is what it is necessary to repeat until there is another idea
What can you ask of Windows Copilot? When we display the sidebar, we can ask the aforementioned chatbot to make a summary of what we are seeing on the screen, to explain it to us or to analyze any element, among other functions. You may also be asked to tidy up your desk, to establish a more suitable configuration for a time when you need to concentrate, or to retrieve files or documents for you. The company will start testing this feature in a controlled environment in the coming weeks and in June it will start unlocking this tool on a larger scale.
Microsoft’s innovations have gone beyond Windows. For example, 365 Copilot, the AI solution for its Office 365 platform, will now support third-party plugins. In addition to some designed for Teams or Power Platform, they will also be able to use tools that have been developed for ChatGPT, since the technology is similar.
Microsoft has also taken advantage of the appointment to announce other news. Some of them drawer. For example ChatGPT will use Bing as the default browser. It could not be otherwise, taking into account the relationship between both companies. It is important to remember that the option to use the OpenAI chatbot connected to the internet (and therefore can offer updated results) is only available for paid users, since it depends on a plugin to do it for now. Those who do not pay their monthly fee will have to settle for the basic version, trained with data from 2021.
