For the past year, millions of individuals have used ChatGPT for assistance with tasks such as composing messages to coworkers and loved ones. As illustrated by recent products like Character.ai and Meta Platforms Inc. that mimic celebrities and historical personalities, generative AI excels at copying people’s speech.
The addition of the capacity to construct emails in the user’s style to Outlook will signal a watershed point in AI’s influence on human-to-human communication. This will offer to write a whole condolence note or poetry to a romantic partner rather than just a few words.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Humans are hardwired to imagine, create, and invent. Each of us aspires to undertake something that gives us meaning – to create a great novel, to make a breakthrough, to develop strong communities, to care for the ill. We all have the desire to connect to the heart of our work.
Today, however, we spend far too much time consumed by the grind of work on things that sap our creativity, time, and energy. We don’t only need a better way of performing the same things to reconnect with the soul of our profession. We require a whole new style of working.
As Microsoft widens its distribution of AI solutions for corporate users, artificial intelligence may soon be writing more company emails in Microsoft Outlook.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot feature, billed as “your everyday AI companion,” will assist users in writing emails in order to “keep your sentences concise and error-free.” The application also summarizes lengthy email discussions in order to generate suggested responses fast.
Microsoft Editor, an intelligent writing aid, will provide more advanced AI assistance to users with Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscriptions. According to a September blog post from the company, the update would feature suggested tweaks for “clarity, conciseness, inclusive language, and more” to help staff send more “polished and professional” emails.
Microsoft stated that the AI-written communications will not contain any type of disclosure to the receivers. Microsoft vice president Jared Spataro compares it to a human assistant. They may, for example, write a personal message for the boss’s spouse to accompany a bouquet of flowers.
Microsoft is simply making it available to any employee of a company willing to pay $30 per month per user, according to Spataro. The consumer version of Office Copilot has only recently begun testing.
The future of office documents
Microsoft announced plans in March to include artificial intelligence into its most well-known productivity applications, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, with the goal of transforming how millions of people work every day. The inclusion of an AI-powered “copilot” - which will help edit, summarize, produce, and compare papers - is based on the same technology that supports ChatGPT.
Microsoft 365 customers will be able to summarize meetings and make suggested follow-up action items, request an Excel chart, and convert a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation in seconds, in addition to sending emails.
You’re always in command with Copilot. You choose what to keep, change, or discard. You can now be more creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, expressive in PowerPoint, productive in Outlook, and collaborative in Teams.
