
Microsoft 365 (ex-Office) will have a GPT-4-based copilot of OpenAI🤖
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As we said in a previous article, the AI war is really declared. Not a week goes by without a web giant making an announcement about AI. After Google which presented its assistant for its office suite, which you can discover by clicking here, it is around Microsoft to do the same with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
A modern version of Clippy, with lots of AI📎
If the name Clippy doesn’t tell you anything, let’s go back in time. It is an assistant that was integrated in the Office suite between 1997 and 2003. You could ask it various questions and get help. Unfortunately, it was not very successful and was removed when Office 2007 was released. It was recently brought back to life as a paper clip emoji in Windows.
But Clippy is not the topic of the day, it is rather its heir, Microsoft 365 Copilot. If the name Microsoft 365 doesn’t mean anything to you, well, it’s the new business name given to Microsoft’s suite of office tools, formerly known as Office. With AI fever gripping the digital giants, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft integrated AI into its office suite, after having done so for Bing and Edge. As its name suggests, it is a real co-pilot that will assist you in various tasks.
Copilot in Word
In Word, Copilot can write, edit, summarize and create text for you. From a simple request, it will be able to generate a whole text for you, while integrating information from your entire organization if needed. If you already have a text, no problem. It can add content, summarize it for you, and even rewrite sections or the entire document to make it more concise. And if you want to write it yourself, he or she can make suggestions to improve your writing, strengthen your arguments or eliminate inconsistencies.

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Copilot in PowerPoint
PowerPoint makes it even easier to turn your ideas into presentations. Ask it to turn written documents into presentations with notes and sources, to create a new presentation from a command or an outline, or to condense long presentations. Copilot will do it. You can also use natural language commands to adjust layouts, reformat text and perfectly synchronize animations.

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Copilot in Excel
Excel has never been many people’s cup of tea. But with Copilot, things should change. Data analysis and exploration becomes even easier as it can reveal correlations, suggest what-if scenarios and even suggest new formulas based on your questions. It will be easier to identify trends, create visualizations. And it will never be far away if you ever need recommendations to get different results.

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Copilot in Outlook
With Copilot in Outlook, no more time spent sorting out emails. This new assistant will be able to summarize threads of discussion with several people, understand what was said and the different points of view of each. It will also be able to identify unanswered open questions. And if you just need to send or reply to an email, from quick notes if necessary, it can do it for you. All you have to do is choose the tone and length, and you’re done.

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Copilot in Teams
Copilot is also coming to Teams. Among other things, it will be able to help you set up meetings, keep track of the conversation, organize key talking points and summarize key actions. If you ever miss the start of a meeting, you’ll just have to ask it to summarize what was said before you arrived, handy.
Microsoft also took the opportunity to introduce Business Chat. It is a kind of hub present in Teams, which can gather data from multiple sources, your documents, presentations, emails, calendars, notes and contacts. In one command, you can have all the activities and interactions around a specific topic.

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A co-pilot based on GPT-4 but not only🤖
As with Bing, Microsoft didn’t just plug its tools into ChatGPT. Microsoft 365 Copilot certainly takes advantage of the intelligence of GPT-4, just unveiled to the general public, but it also leverages the mass of data in Microsoft Graph that provides context, and performs additional security and compliance checks.
Microsoft wants to build its AI responsibly. In particular, Copilot builds on Microsoft’s existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. As a result, Copilot automatically inherits the security, compliance and privacy policies of the organization in which Microsoft 365 is deployed. In addition, Microsoft promises that its data model will not be trained with enterprise data.
Microsoft also claims that its AI work is reviewed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers and policy experts, whose goal is to identify potential harm and mitigation measures. Except that news website The Verge revealed that Microsoft recently fired its ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization. The goal of this team was to assess the dangers of Microsoft’s use of OpenAI language models in all its products and applications. When you see the latest controversies around Bing, you have to wonder if Microsoft made the right decision.
Above all, let’s not forget one important thing: Copilot is not perfect.
« Sometimes Copilot will be right, other times usefully wrong — but it will always put you further ahead. », said Mr. Jared Spataro Corporate Vice President, Modern Work & Business Applications
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