to this end 50th birthdayMicrosoft is teaching its AI-powered Copilot Chatbot some new tricks.
Microsoft said Copilot can now take action against “most sites” to make it possible to book tickets, book restaurants, and more. The robot has gained the ability to remember specific things about you, Chatgpt similar to Openaijust like your favorite food and movies. Now it can analyze live videos from your phone and answer questions in the context of “seeing”.
Upgrade is Microsoft It is said that Carefully considered the reform of the co-pilot, historically powered by Openai’s AI model, its own internal technology. Co-pilot often lags behind competitors chatgpt And Google’s Geminiin recent months, this will only speed up the launch of features.
As of Friday, Copilot can complete tasks on the network as a “agent” tool Operators at Openai Do it. Microsoft says it works with 1-800-flowers.com, booking.com, expedia, kayak, offset, priceline, tripadvisor, skyscanner, viator, viator and vrbo for compatibility. Enter a prompt – for example “Send a bouquet to my partner” – Copilot will try to check that specific to do from your list.
Get pages from search engine confusion bookCopilot can now also track online transactions for you. Tell the bot to find prices drops and sales on items, it will notify you when it happens and provide you with a link to purchase.
It is unclear how Copilot performs. Microsoft provides details on how the feature works, and unlike some competitors, there is no release of data indicating areas where the co-pilot may struggle or require human intervention.
It is speculated that the website also has the potential to block co-pilots, just as they were able to block Openai’s operators. The company may do this For example, the concern is that few people directly access their apps It may damage its advertising revenue.
Fortunately, Copilot’s other new features are less vague and may be controversial.
Improved subtitles can generate “podcasts” similar to audio overview Google’s laptop. Given a website, research or some other source, Copilot will have a back and forth conversation between two synthetic hosts. As with the audio overview, you can interrupt the host to ask questions at any time and they will acknowledge and respond.
On Android and iOS, Copilot can now see what is in the phone’s camera or photo gallery and answer questions about it (e.g., “What weird flower is this?”). On Windows, the remodeled secondary application can view content on the desktop screen to search, change settings, organize files, and more. It will be launched first for members of the Windows Insers program that will begin next week.
The journalist hopes that there are reasonable safeguards to prevent the co-pilot from reading private documents or making mistakes on desktop. But it is difficult to get information before the release time.
Elsewhere, Copilot has a new project merge page feature that draws heavy inspiration from it chatgpt canvas and Claude’s artifacts of humanity tool. The page includes notes and research on the canvas that can help organize and turn into documents.
Supplementary page, Copilot’s new deep research capabilities can find, analyze and combine information in online data, documents and images to answer more complex queries, very similar In-depth study of CHATGPT and In-depth study of Gemini.
Finally, as mentioned earlier, Copilot can now remember more about you. Microsoft says the robot will notice your preferences when interacting with it, offering “tailored solutions”, “proactive suggestions” and reminders.
Microsoft notes that if the chatbot remembers the private details of past conversations that trouble you, there is a way to delete a single “memory” or opt out altogether.
“Co-pilot” [gives] You can control it through the user dashboard and choose to select the type of information it remembers about you or completely selects,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post provided to TechCrunch. “You keep control. ”
