Microsoft Applies AI Powers Behind Behind ChatGPT to Excel, Outlook

Microsoft pressed on with its AI revolution on Thursday, announcing that it would apply the powers behind ChatGPT to its iconic Excel, Word and Outlook programs.

The Redmond, Washington giant is increasingly adopting language-based AI, showing less caution than its rivals despite early problems, such as chatbots giving jarring responses or blatantly incorrect information.

Microsoft’s latest chatbot, called Copilot, will put ChatGPT-like capabilities to work in offices, churning out meeting transcripts, calendar entries or PowerPoint slides almost instantly.

The thrust of the new release is that generative AI, the term for ChatGPT-style capabilities, will act as an assistant to users of Microsoft’s popular workplace software and not unilaterally take over Office tasks.

“You could say we’re using AI on autopilot, and with the next generation of AI, we’re moving from autopilot to copilot,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at a virtual release event.

Microsoft is pouring billions of dollars into OpenAI, the company building the technology that powers ChatGPT and which released its latest version, GPT-4, on Tuesday.

That technology, which OpenAI says can be prompted by images as well as text, is already the foundation of a chatbot on Microsoft’s Bing search engine that is gaining more users thanks to its embrace of AI.

Other tech giants are taking a more cautious approach to generative AI, fearing the embarrassment that comes if the technology goes off the rails.

Google’s cloud computing arm said this week that it would provide testers with ways to “put generative AI” into apps or put them to work on the Internet titan’s own platform.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that the Facebook and Instagram parent company was forming a product group to come up with ways to “turbocharge” its AI work.

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