Microsoft announced the inclusion of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs in its artificial intelligence-based assistant tool, CoPilot, to facilitate access to its famous software package.
In the coming weeks, individual subscribers to Microsoft 365 and companies participating in its pilot program will be able to create, edit, and share files directly within CoPilot, without the need to move from one application to another.
Jacob Andreu, Executive Vice President in charge of CoPilot, confirmed that the entire Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs that will be provided will be different from what some provide in terms of simple tools for displaying documents in their products, alluding to both OpenAI, the developer of GPT Chat, and Anthropic, the developer of Cloud, which have launched their tools for creating documents in recent months.
He pointed out that Microsoft had previously announced a set of internally developed models, but only a limited number of products have been put into operation currently, including GitHub’s CoPilot programming tool. He called on companies to identify their best employees, that is, “the best 10 or 20 percent of workers,” and begin giving them access to the most powerful agent tools.
CoPilot includes the Autopilot program, which is capable of performing automated tasks continuously and on its own, while the program was previously known as Scout, and Microsoft described it as its first always-on artificial intelligence-based assistant that can work over the Internet, even when the computer is turned off, a service that is still limited to a limited number of customers.
