The Copilot Experience: A Redesigned Experience for User Experiences in the Windows, Mobile, Web, and Mobile Platforms using the Inflection AI

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Copilot is being redesigned across mobile, web, and the dedicated Windows app into a user experience that’s more card-based and looks very similar to the work Inflection AI has done with its Pi personalized AI assistant. Microsoft hired a bunch of people from the Inflection AI company, including their CEO. This is Suleyman’s first big change to Copilot since taking over the consumer side of the AI assistant.

The new Copilot experience will be available in the mobile, web, and Windows app today. Copilot Voice will be initially available in English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US, before expanding to more regions and languages in the future. Copilot Vision is only available to a few Copilot Pro subscribers in the US, and Copilot Daily is limited to the US and the UK.

Think Deeper is still early in development, and Microsoft is placing it into Copilot Labs, a new way to test out experimental features that the company is still developing. Copilot Vision will also be part of the Labs feature initially, and participants will be able to provide feedback on the experiences. Microsoft is clearly treading carefully with Copilot Vision after the backlash around its initial Recall security and privacy issues. Microsoft revealed last week that Recall has been overhauled with improved security and privacy options, and you’ll even be able to fully uninstall the feature or not turn it on in the first place.

Copilot Daily is an audio summary of news and weather that Copilot reads aloud as if it were a CNN anchor. It is designed as a short clip you can listen to in the morning and it only uses content from news and weather providers that have authorization from Copilot. Microsoft is working with some of the major newspapers, and plans to add more in the future.

Microsoft says that Copilot Vision sessions are opt-in and ephemeral, and that no content is stored or used for training. Copilot Vision works with websites that are restricted by Microsoft, so it is not possible for all websites to use the new experience. “We’re starting with a limited list of popular websites to help ensure it’s a safe experience for everyone,” says the Copilot team. During preview, Copilot Vision won’t work on paywalled and sensitive content, either.

Voice, Emotion, and Style: The First Steps in Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Counsel Women and Mendiah Menagerie

Mehdi says they are making a huge bet on voice. When you use the way we designed it, you are able to have conversations. Then you see the glimmers of where we’re going to go long term, with vision where the AI can actually help you and see what you see if you want it to.”

I’ve believed for a long time in the potential of artificial intelligence to provide support. When I began my telephone counseling service at 19 years old, emotional support was one of the things that I worked on.

When Microsoft users opened Word with the line “It looks like you’re writing a letter…”, the Clippy appeared on the screen. Microsoft concluded that the program failed to deliver on its promise of humanlike intelligence and was unpopular because of it. The fact that large language models can still be odd and unpredictable is one reason why Copilot is popular.

The most common request is for aesthetic advice, according to Suleyman. “They’re on a fashion website, and they’re like, what do you call that pattern? What do you call that dress?”

DeepMind: Connecting with a Companion in Google’s Next-Generation Go-Positive Game

As a cofounder of DeepMind, a British company acquired by Google in 2014, he helped devise a new way for computers to tackle seemingly impossible problems by combining practice with positive and negative feedback. DeepMind demonstrated the approach by developing a superhuman Go-playing program, AlphaGo, which defeated the world’s best Go player in 2016.

Users will fall back in love with the computer as a result of this plan. He talked to Will Knight of WIRED about Microsoft Teams. The conversation has been edited.

There is a new kind of design material for persistence, relationship, and emotion. And I’m sort of crafting experiences which are about a kind of lasting, sustained interaction with a companion.

You joined Microsoft from Inflection AI, where the focus was building supportive and empathetic AI. It sounds like you brought it with you to your new job.

That’s the beauty of technology. It is a good idea to engage with one of these experiences for a lengthy period of time to see how it feels to be with this companion. It’s assisting you, supporting you and teaching you. I think that isn’t going to feel like a computer anymore.

There’s a lot of little moments when you’re at the computer. It’s amazing that this Artificial Intelligence companion can see what you’re seeing and talk to you in real time. It sort of changes the route that you take through your digital life, because you don’t have the burden of having to type something in.