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What is Copilot AI?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Copilot AI is an AI assistant<\/a> developed by Microsoft that’s designed to enable individuals, employees, IT professionals, and developers to improve their productivity.<\/p>\n

With Copilot, users can search for information in Bing<\/a> with ChatGPT<\/a>, summarize documents and web pages, create content, build apps, launch apps, generate presentations, write code, and more. Users can interact with Copilot via text, voice and image.<\/p>\n

Copilot<\/a> is available with Windows 11, online with the Bing web app, and as an integration with Microsoft Office 365<\/a> Apps.<\/p>\n

There is also a pro version of Copilot known as Copilot Pro, which gives users priority access to GPT-4<\/a> and GPT-4 Turbo, supports image creation with DALL-E 3<\/a>, and integrates Copilot with Microsoft 365 apps such as Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.<\/p>\n

How Does Copilot AI Work?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Users can open up Copilot AI as a standalone tool or chat pane and begin entering prompts<\/a> in natural language. Microsoft Copilot then uses ChatGPT and GPT-4 to respond to user queries.<\/p>\n

With the pro version, Copilot connects to Microsoft 365 apps and data while GPT-4 uses technologies, such as machine learning<\/a>, natural language processing<\/a> (NLP), and natural language generation<\/a> (NLG), to analyze and respond to user inputs.<\/p>\n

When the user enters a prompt into Copilot, the tool will use GPT-4’s NLP capabilities to process the request and NLG to produce a relevant output that matches their search intent.<\/p>\n

Copilot’s access to data across Microsoft 365 apps means that users can query and summarize information in calendars, emails, documents, meetings, and contacts.<\/p>\n

For example, a user could ask the assistant to “summarize a PowerPoint presentation,” or “give me a list of email actions,” or even to “analyze the top trends in this Excel spreadsheet.”<\/p>\n

What Does Copilot AI Do?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Copilot AI can be used for a range of different use cases, depending on the data connected to it, and the app the user is using. At a high level, employees can use the tool to query data stored across Microsoft’s product ecosystem.<\/p>\n

“Copilot doesn’t just supercharge individual productivity. It creates a new knowledge model for every organization \u2013 harnessing the massive reservoir of data and insights that lies largely inaccessible and untapped today,” said Jared Spataro, CVP of modern work & business applications in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Business Chat works across all your business data and apps to surface the information and insights you need from a sea of data \u2013 so knowledge flows freely across the organization, saving you valuable time searching for answers,” Spataro said.<\/p>\n

Use Cases<\/h3>\n

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The use cases for Copilot change if the user is accessing the tool form within a Microsoft 365 app.<\/p>\n

Below is a brief summary of what Copilot can do within each 365 app:<\/p>\n