THE ONE IMPORTANT STORY

🤖Microsoft's Copilot is here - AI in Excel, Word, Outlook etc.

The ChatGPT enthusiasts, including me, have been chanting and dancing around the virtual bonfire, proclaiming that AI is about to turn our work lives upside down—in the best way possible. And folks, it looks like our prophecies might just be on the verge of coming true.

You can start nagging your boss to get you a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription after the Redmond-based tech giant launched it on Wednesday.

This little gem of a tool (Powered by GPT-4) is here to be your Robin, helping Batman (that’s you) to save the day by transforming Word documents into eye-popping PowerPoint slides, drafting replies to those boring email chains, summarizing endless video meetings, and pretty much automating the heck out of anything you can think of.

Now, the teeny-tiny catch? Companies have to buy a minimum of 300 licenses at $30 a pop. And oh, it's on top of the Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 monthly subscription ($36 and $57 per person per month).

It is expected to be available for smaller businesses in Q1/Q2 of 2024.

The feedback has been positive so far. Employees at a company that had early access reported that Copilot shaved off 5-10 hours of work per month.

Now, let’s talk Microsoft. Traditionally, they've been the tech behemoth that arrives late to the innovation party. But with Copilot, they've flipped the script. By weaving this next-gen AI into our daily digital toolkit, they're setting the stage to redefine the office software game.

Experts say that there’s an undercurrent of FOMO stirring in the business world. The sentiment? "Get on the Copilot bandwagon or risk being left in the digital dust.” This could earn Microsoft a solid $10 billion in annual revenue by 2026.

Let’s see, what happens when the dust settles, and we hear back from our friends living the corporate life. However, Microsoft is ready to put a very capable AI technology into the hands of its 345 million paying customers. This might be the moment we look back on as the time when AI left its chat window and became a part of our everyday lives.

ONE MORE THING

The Beatles released a new song written and sung by John Lennon thanks to AI

Before that tragic day in 1980, John Lennon was working on new songs and had recorded demo versions of them. After his passing, Yoko Ono handed these demos, preserved on a cassette, to Paul McCartney. Most of these songs found their way into the multimedia Anthology project.

However, they encountered an issue with "Now and Then" – John’s voice was intertwined with the piano sounds, making them inseparable. But 43 years later, AI came to the rescue.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you: The Beatles."

⌚ If you have one more minute

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AI Art of the Day 🎨

Try adding “Chaotic Cubist style 3D render” to your DALL-E 3 prompts to get pictures like this. Credit goes to @TechMemeKing

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