Introducing Microsoft Copilot

There is a huge buzz around the concept of Copilot in the Microsoft community, and with the widespread implementation of Copilot throughout Microsoft 365, it’s hard to not get excited.

In 2022, a company called OpenAI became known globally for launching a web-based service called ChatGPT. Building on over a decade of experience of building AI models and mining data, ChatGPT introduced the concept of interactive chat with a bot that answered the questions that you asked of it. Based on deep learning, this brought a difference to the way that we as users find information. Where we are usually sign-posted to a website to consume information, instead, it presented an answer to us in natural language based on the content that it had crawled. Similar models were also launched to allow for the creation of AI art, Dall-E as an example, where I could describe what I want and AI would generate a completely unique image for me.

At the start of 2023...