Microsoft presented the redesign of its Copilot Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistantwhat a sum support for voice interactions and vision functionalities on your screen display. The changes will be available for mobile devices, computers with Windows and the available web version of the browser Bing,
“In Microsoft AIwe are creating a AI assistant for everyone,” he highlighted this Tuesday Mustafa Suleymanco-founder of Google DeepMind who also worked at the company Inflection AIwithin the framework of the relaunch of Copilot.
“I truly believe that we can create a calmer, more useful and more supportive technological era, very different from anything we’ve seen so far,” added Suleyman, who was one of the AI developers hired by Microsoft earlier this year.
New features
Part of the redesign consists of a new format for the main screen of the application, called Copilot Discoverwhich could be personalized based on the user’s conversation history with the system. This will suggest useful searches and provide other useful information.
For voice interactions, these can be configured with four options and Copilot is able to answer all kinds of questions. The interaction with the user can be maintained even when the user interrupts them, while they process the information or comment on their response.
Along with Discover, it was also announced Copilot Visionwhich allows AI analyze information on a web page and answer queries about the text and images displayed.
From Microsoft they explained that one possible use is to ask the assistant to compare the price of the same product between e-commerce platforms.
Vision sessions are optional and ephemeralwithout the possibility of being active all the time. The preview version of this tool will not work on all websites due to restrictions implemented by Microsoft and will not work with confidential and paid content.
The system will also offer the function Copilot Dailywhat will it do news and weather summaries in audio format. Its developers emphasized that, to obtain the informationonly content from news providers shared with Copilot is used.
Microsoft agreements and trials
The company made agreements with Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst and Financial Timesand will look to add more sources over time.
It can also be used Think Deeper, a specific function for users to ask more complex questions that require longer reasoning times. This tool remains in the testing phase for the moment to Copilot Labs.
Since when will it be available?
The renewed Copilot experience is available this Tuesday in mobile applications for iOS and Androidon the official website and through the Copilot app for Windows. For its part, Copilot Voice will be available in English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, and will expand to more regions and languages in the future.
Source: Ambito
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