Do you remember Github Copilot, the artificial intelligence that Microsoft launched in 2020 to be your programming assistant and that scared many people? Well now, Microsoft announced in a blog that it has included Copilot in Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. After Bing with GPT, this is another step in Microsoft’s plan to dominate AI (and, by the way, the world).
The Office suite (now called Microsoft 365) is one of the company’s flagship products, and with the integration of Copilot (which uses GPT-4 under the hood), you’ll be able to ask it to do many things for you. This new update is called Microsoft 365 Copilot.
For example:
- In Word, it can write, summarize, or edit text.
- In Excel, it can suggest formulas, find insights, or create professional charts with relevant data.
- In PowerPoint, it can create a presentation from a prompt, a Word document, or an Excel file, and add animations or transitions.
- In Teams, it can transcribe meetings, make a summary to update latecomers, etc.
- And in Outlook, it will summarize your emails so you don’t waste time reviewing them.
It also includes a different experience, called Business Chat, a chatbot that learns from all the company’s documents to make suggestions about strategy, as well as find opportunities or business ideas.
With these new tools, Microsoft promises that you can now be more creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, more expressive in PowerPoint, more productive in Outlook, and more collaborative in Teams. Currently, Microsoft 365 Copilot is in a testing phase with selected enterprise customers.
Microsoft claims that programmers who use Github Copilot are up to 80% more productive. How much do you think your productivity will increase with this AI? I can say, a lot!
