Microsoft announced 365 Copilot in March this year for its main office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, among others. Now it is announcing the early access program for these tools that will have artificial intelligence integrated with Copilot.
The news was released by Satya Nadella, president and CEO of Microsoft when presenting the Work Trend Index 2023 report: “Will AI solve work?”, where he said:
This new generation of AI will remove the heavy lifting and unleash creativity. There is a huge opportunity for AI-powered tools to help alleviate the digital deficit, build AI skills and empower employees.
In this way, the idea is to integrate artificial intelligence into productivity tools such as Microsoft 365 to do the “heavy lifting” and leave creativity up to the creators. An argument that was reiterated by Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Modern Work and Business Applications.
The pace and volume of work has increased exponentially and is outpacing humans’ ability to keep up. In a world where creativity is the new productivity, our digital debt is more than an inconvenience – it’s a threat to innovation. Next-gen AI will lighten our workload and give us more time to focus on the tasks that matter.
Initially, the Microsoft 365 Copilot early access program will allow 600 corporate customers around the world to use the new tools with built-in artificial intelligence.
Among them, Microsoft listed the Microsoft Whiteboard that you can generate ideas, organize them by themes, create visual concepts, and even summarize all the content on the board for meeting participants in Teams.
Another example is the DALL-E image generator, which will be integrated into Power point to create custom illustrations illustrate presentations.
O outlook it will be able to help users in the writing and elaboration of messages to make the language clearer in a more advanced way than the one already available in the Microsoft Editor, allowing you to define what tone you want to achieve in a communication, for example.
O OneNote will gain integration similar to Outlook, but in this case it will be able to create lists, organize ideas and even generate projects for the user to extract the best of their creativity.
Finally, there is still the Viva Learningwhich will have a chat interface to teach users how to create learning paths, discover new learning resources, and even schedule time for training.
The creator of Windows will also provide a Semantic Index for Copilot so that all customers in the Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 segments are prepared to use all the tools presented today.
