Microsoft Copilot is a powerful AI tool that enhances productivity, creativity, and collaboration across various contexts, whilst still maintaining robust security and privacy features.
Capabilities:
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU): Copilot excels at understanding complex queries made using natural language requests. You can ask it to perform a series of tasks, analyse large amounts of data, and expect some useful responses.
What language model does Copilot use?
Copilot is designed to work from the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT-4, which is the same model that ChatGPT Plus users get access to. It’s the most advanced model that OpenAI has created so far. It offers more accurate, reliable, and capable responses
When used with Office 365
Copilot is used in Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word on PC, Macs and iPads. However, Excel support for Copilot is currently in preview form and limited to English language only at the time of writing.
- Clearing writer’s block
- Stuck writing? Describe your goal (e.g., complaint letter) to Copilot AI and get a draft or bullet points to jump-start your creativity.
- Convert PowerPoint into Word and back
- Copilot turns messy Word docs into polished presentations! Just upload & it builds slides, suggests visuals & helps refine for impact
- Analyse data and find trends
- Copilot for Excel: Ask questions, find hidden trends, generate visualizations – all from your spreadsheet data.
- Sort through your emails
- Copilot conquers your inbox! Flags unimportant emails, suggests pro replies & helps you stay on top of what matters.
- Improving your documents
- Copilot edits in real-time! Fixes grammar, improves flow, and fine-tunes your 365 documents for clarity and impact.
Copilot Features:
- Content Creation and Analysis: Copilot captures natural language commands to produce content, analyse data, build presentations, and more.
- Web Grounding: It always has access to the latest information from the web.
- Commercial Data Protection: When signed in with your ‘Entra ID, Copilot provides commercial data protection, ensuring chat data isn’t saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access, and your data isn’t used to train the models.
- Enterprise-Grade Security: Copilot for Microsoft 365 inherits existing Microsoft 365 security, privacy, identity, and compliance policies, making it enterprise-grade. Your data remains isolated and protected.
Copilot & Multiple Apps
Copilot offers multiple apps under the Copilot umbrella. There’s the Copilot chatbot, Windows Copilot, Copilot for Microsoft 365, and even Copilot for Service, Copilot for Sales, and so on down the list.
Ultimately, Copilot is the primary chatbot, and you can access it for free.
NB: Information present is accurate as at May 2024