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This effort by Microsoft to get consumers to embrace AI across their digital lives is part of a larger trend.
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Microsoft just announced several updates to its Copilot AI assistant, and some sound downright useful. It's bringing Copilot Vision to mobile, but with some new features. For the uninitiated, this software originally launched for the Edge web browser and gave Copilot the ability to "see" and comment on the contents of websites.
The company is upping its game for the mobile version, adding some multimodal functionality. It'll be able to integrate with your phone's camera to "enable an interactive experience with the real world." Microsoft says it can analyze both real-time video from the camera and photos stored on the device
Microsoft gives an example of Copilot Vision analyzing a video of plants to determine if
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We've used the term "assistant" rather loosely over the past few years. In part, that's due to the aspirational marketing of companies like Google and its "Google Assistant," which has provided answers to spoken questions and not much more. And we will tolerate those machines anticipating some of our preferences: autofilling commands, suggesting movies, and even automatically ordering refills as we run out of ink or milk. Knowing that we typically order orange chicken over chow mein? OK, fine.
Copilot wants to know all about you
Microsoft's, um, thinking different. It wants to proactively offer you reminders and suggestions. How? By assigning a Copilot a "memory": your nephew's birthday and what gifts he might like, the foods you enjoy, and what movies you like. It all sounds very much like an advertising profile, and that's probably what it is.
And if Microsoft's Copilot starts to recognize you as a person, Microsoft hopes you might begin to think of Copilot as a unique individual, too.
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GitHub, the online developer platform that allows users to create, store, manage, and share their code, has been on a generative AI (genA) journey since before ChatGPT or Copilot was widely available to the public.
Through an early partnership with Microsoft, the dev platform adopted Copilot two-and-a-half years ago, tweaking it to create its own version — GitHub Copilot.
The genAI-baed conversational chat interface is now used as a tool for both GitHub users and internal employees to assist in code development, as well as an automated help desk tool.
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