At a product reveal in NYC, Microsoft announced new Surface hardware and big plans for AI as a copilot for work tasks.
, allowing you to create and modify new images based on text prompts. The image quality, at least in these demos, is much better than the previous gen, and Microsoft says the images will be digitally watermarked as AI-generated, to make sure no one mistakes them for human-created art.Copilot for Microsoft started as an AI assistant for Office 365. Its new version, across almost all of Microsoft’s enterprise tools, is highlighted by a new chatbot, simply called Microsoft 365 Chat.
AI can already write blog posts and articles, with mixed results. The 365 Chat version claims to improve on that by allowing you to link directly to Office docs, from Word files to Excel spreadsheets, in your Copilot query, giving you a better-informed AI-generated blog post.The most clever potential use is a feature called “sound like me,” allowing it to write emails , that mimic