Microsoft’s AI Copilot – what you need to know
It was quite an eventful week in the world of AI. Stanford Alpaca, GPT4, Google AI for Workspaces, MidjourneyV5, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
What an eventful week it has been! We have been absolutely peppered with AI mania this week. 🤩 Below is a quick recap of AI happenings.
Monday
- Stanford Alpaca 7B – a model fine-tuned from the LLaMA 7B model on 52K instruction-following demonstrations.
Tuesday
- GPT4 – OpenAI’s newest model released to the public exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmark. It accepts ~25K words and will soon support visual prompts.
- Anthropic releases Claude – next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems.
- Google’s PaLM API & MakerSuite – an approachable way to start prototyping and building generative AI applications.
- Google adds AI to workspaces – new AI-powered features in Google Workspace.
Wednesday
- MidjourneyV5 – can produce strikingly lifelike visuals.
Thursday
- Microsoft 365 Copilot – combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet.
Friday – will this be next?
This image was generated w/ Midjourney’s V5 engine, BTW.
Today’s AI news roundup:
Microsoft launches AI copilot for Office 365 🚀
Apple experimenting with language-generating AI 🍎
Baidu launches its answer to ChatGPT, shares take a tumble 📉
Microsoft AI copilot
Microsoft launched copilot 365 – basically a ChatGPT-4 powered Microsoft Office.
They launched the copilot during a video webinar hosted on LinkedIn: The Future of Work: Reinventing Productivity with AI
In the webinar, Satya Nadella said:
“Just as we can’t imagine computing today without a keypad, mouse or multitouch, going forward we won’t be able to imagine computing without copilots and natural language prompts that intuitively help us with continuation, summarization, chain-of-thought reasoning, reviewing, modifying and acting,”
Here’s the summary of what it can do for you:
âś… Word: jump-start the creative process by giving a user a first draft to edit and iterate on.
âś… Excel: enables quick trend analysis and professional data visualization.
âś… PowerPoint: simplifies presentation creation through user-friendly prompts.
âś… Outlook: streamlines inbox management, suggests replies, and helps you with your calendar.
âś… Teams: provides real-time support during meetings by summarizing discussion points and suggesting action items.
To learn more, here’s a series of quick videos on their YouTube channel that demonstrates Copilot in your favorite Office products.
Today, the market reacted favorably to Microsoft’s AI news with the stock opening at $265.20 and closing at $276.09.
Apple is experimenting with language-generating AI
With all the news this week around OpenAI’s new language model GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Workspace AI, and Microsoft’s copilot – one name is conveniently missing from this list: Apple.
Last month, they held an internal event focused on AI and large language models, and according to The New York Times, many teams are testing “language-generating concepts” regularly. But why is Siri always so slow to evolve? Apparently, it’s because of “clunky code” and a big database pile with a ton of words.
However, Apple has been using AI-powered features for a while now (though subtle) like better suggestions on the keyboard, mask unlocks with Face ID, and even crash detection on Apple Watch.
In January, the company began offering authors AI-powered narration services to turn their books into audiobooks. This is an indication the company is starting to think about AI use cases.
Stay tuned, we’ll keep you posted on any Apple AI updates.
Baidu launches its answer to ChatGPT, shares take a tumble
Short Reuters Video re: Ernie Bot
At a much anticipated event at the company headquarters, Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, unveiled the company’s chatbot service “Ernie Bot”.
The audience was only shown pre-recorded videos of Ernie Bot, but a selected group of users will be able to use the service starting on Thursday. Baidu’s Hong Kong-listed shares fell as much as 10% in response to the launch.
Li said Ernie Bot is not perfect, but the company launched it due to market demand.
Cool AI stuff
Vizologi – A chatbot for business strategy, create and edit business plans, conduct market research, and analyze competitors.
findly.ai – Get accurate, actionable data insights in minutes, without needing to learn SQL or Python.
Chatbase – Upload your own documents and then chat with them.
AI video of the day
OpenAI Co-founder on ChatGPT, DALL·E, and the Impact of Generative AI | SXSW 2023
If you have some time (1hr), watch this interview from SXSW posted a few days ago. It is a great conversation between OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and Laurie Segall of Dot Dot Dot Media.
ai language models generating random ai art
Daily, we instruct the AI to generate a random prompt to give to the MidJourney AI image generator. The results are beautiful.
This week, we are focusing on using a filter called “infrared” which gives the images a really unique and dreamy feel.
Prompt: A waterfall in a forest: Take a picture of a waterfall in a forest, with the sunlight filtering through the trees. The infrared filter will add a softness and depth to the image.
MidJourney’s Image:
