Microsoft chief Satya Nadella has taken the lead in bringing ChatGPT-like technology to the software giant’s offerings despite concerns it could go astray and generate hateful or inaccurate responses. .
Microsoft continued its AI revolution on Thursday, announcing that it will apply the power behind ChatGPT to its iconic Excel, Word and Outlook programs.
The Redmond, Washington giant was quick to adopt language-based AI, being less cautious than its rivals despite initial problems like chatbots giving unsettling responses or misleading information. clearly precise.
Microsoft’s newest chatbot, called Copilot, will bring ChatGPT-like capabilities to work in the office, creating meeting recordings, calendar entries, or PowerPoint slides almost instantly.
The thrust of the new release is generalized AI, the term for ChatGPT-style capabilities, which will act as an assistant for users of Microsoft’s popular workplace software and not unilaterally take on clerical tasks. room.
“You could say we used AI on autopilot and with this next generation of AI, we’re moving from autopilot to copilot,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at a virtual launch event.
Microsoft is pouring billions of dollars into OpenAI, which is building the technology that powers ChatGPT and released its latest version, GPT-4, on Tuesday.
The technology, which OpenAI says can be suggested by images as well as text, has been the foundation of a chatbot on Microsoft’s Bing search engine that is gaining more users using AI.
Other tech giants is taking a more cautious approach to general AI, fearing the embarrassment that comes when technology get off the track.
Google’s cloud computing division said this week that it will offer testers ways to “inject creative AI” into apps or get them to work on the internet giant’s own platform. .
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that the parent company of Facebook and Instagram is creating a product team to figure out how to “accelerate” their AI operations.
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