Microsoft Copilot – AI to Common Man’s Life

Looks Microsoft is encashing it’s investment of few billion dollars in OpenAI, smartly. By integrating the trained Large Language Model, wisely. Attracting it’s users base of Edge, Bing, MS 365 suite of products.

Churning end users data in MS Graph, blends it with huge prebuilt model (Open AI) to enhancing product range.

An example of integrating, packaging & offers lots of services on it’s pre existing office suite & new ones.

ChatGPT, its API have a slew of interesting uses.

Let me try to give a quick snap, diagram below captures the interaction & flow of prompts responses, MS Graph. Provides access to data stored across Microsoft 365 service, captures important entities from users data. Grounding happens here, zoom to view details,

Copilot sends modified prompt to LLM & receives response.

One question is because copilot sends every single thing to Open AI, but you don’t want this to happen because of privacy.

Prompts, responses and grounding data (MS Graph) aren’t used to train model. OpenAI has no access to the data or the model

The documents, mail etc. of a user is totally protected, peace of mind.

Comes loaded with Plugins etc. to connect it to other systems.

Architects & Developers, it’s worth customising it within Azure AI Studio.

Microsoft Copilot is integrated in Microsoft 365, AI assistant that’s available in 365 applications, here’s illustrative features.

Word: Create, summarize, comprehend, refine, & elevate documents.

PowerPoint: Transform existing written documents into decks complete with speaker notes & sources.

Excel: Analyze data, generate graphs, and more.

OneNote: Create note etc.

Power platform is integrated in a lot of stuff.

Helps in Generating images from your ideas, Chatting, Finding information about images, Adjusting your PC’s settings, list is long.

MS users can experience these features within these applications.

It’s also available to others who can use its web interface and experience chat, well organized, presented & categorized.

Limit of tokens can be a bottleneck with it, considering Google’s Gemini – 1.5

On the other hand Google renamed its conversational AI tool Bard to Gemini (ver. 1.5) with support staggering 10 million tokens, way beyond MS. It’s a new Language Model but its integration is missing so far.

May be it will come out with something new in near future.

I wonder it’s human brain & imagination, behind AI’s every day use.

Just a tip of Iceberg.

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