🏄Microsoft redefines work

Copilot will act as your all-knowing assistant

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Marc Csuzi
September 22, 2023

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“Donna! Walk with me! I have 45 seconds until my next meeting and I need to know what this meeting will even be about.“ - If you ever dreamed of shouting that to an all knowing assistant as you swing open the glass door of your office, you will like Microsoft’s new update. It might not respond to Donna, but it will read your emails and get you the most important details on any topic in a second.

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Here’s your one minute of AI news for the day:

ONE PIECE OF NEWS

🤖Microsoft redefines work

Next Tuesday, Microsoft will commence its grand AI venture with a free Windows 11 update that integrates Copilot. And by this fall, AI will further weave its way into the Microsoft ecosystem.

Starting November 1, Microsoft’s AI magic will be available across all its products to business users, promising to redefine how we engage with office productivity tools. At the heart of Copilot is the freshly introduced AI assistant: Microsoft 365 Chat.

What makes Microsoft 365 Chat stand out?

This AI assistant will give you a quick overview of your unread emails and organise it based on urgency or importance.

Need a summary of the latest happenings on a marketing campaign? Microsoft 365 Chat will dive into your emails, calendar events, chats, and documents, and brief you in record time, complete with links to the relevant documents. Check out a quick demo here.

Microsoft 365 Chat giving you an update one minute before meeting

Bing’s chatbot is also undergoing a transformation, aiming to offer a more individualised user experience. Did you recently chat about your dog? The next time you search for free-time activities, Bing might throw in some dog-friendly suggestions. If this sounds scary, don't worry, you can simply delete the conversations you don’t want Bing to remember.

Just like ChatGPT, Bing chat will get DALL-E 3's image generation capabilities to produce stunning pictures with a click of a button.

As Microsoft embarks on this AI journey, the world watches closely, anticipating how these innovations might reshape our jobs in the years to come.

ONE MORE THING

Youtube is tapping into AI as well.

It will generate video topic ideas and outlines tailored to each creator, based on current audience trends.

Will it bring better videos to the platform or will it just push creators to make more of the same? We’ll find out soon.

⌚ If you have one more minute:

AI Art of the day 🎨

AI-generated ads were spotted in Mumbai advertising a trip to Santorini. A couple months ago AI-made QRs were all the rage in the Stable Diffusion community, but seeing it in real life is an interesting early sign of AI-generated media taking over traditional advertising channels.

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