2023-11-03 02:09:49
Are you allergic to designing PowerPoint or reading Excel tables? A chatbot will take care of it for you. Embodied for a year by ChatGPT, in particular, generative artificial intelligence technology is taking its first steps in the most used software suite in the world, both in the office but also on the home PC.
Presented last March, the Microsoft 365 Copilot solution has been available since Wednesday, November 1 in France. It integrates text and image-creating AI functionalities into Word, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook software. The logical step after integration into the Bing search engine and above all the easiest to bring this disruptive innovation into the business world.
“Microsoft has a visionary strategy by integrating ChatGPT technology into all its products, the user will change their habits while continuing to use software that they master,” enthuses Stéphane Roder, CEO of Al Builders, an AI consulting firm for CAC 40 companies. Billed at 30 euros/month per user in addition to a premium subscription to Microsoft 365, it will first be aimed at large companies, before trickling down, if it demonstrates its effectiveness.
“A real impact on time-consuming and boring tasks”
The performance promises of this personal assistant are tempting. “There will be the possibility of asking questions in a natural way to documents and finding precise answers in data scattered throughout the company,” underlines Nicolas Gaudemet, executive director in charge of AI at Onepoint.
On Word, Copilot can write, modify or summarize a text more concisely, or even create a draft itself. While inserting an illustration or graphic. In Excel, the generative AI tool digs into the boxes of tables in order to create graphs based on key data. PowerPoint presentations are enriched with personalized slides with the font and company logo, but also your writing style and more or less visuals. It’s like giving instructions to a chatbot that draws inspiration from your archives and tables of numbers to generate tailored content without friction.
“There will be a real impact on time-consuming and tedious tasks such as meeting minutes, summarizing documents and contracts or generating a standard email,” he summarizes. “In a request or “prompt”, Copilot’s AI will, for example, summarize the last five emails exchanged with a customer, this will save time and efficiency, because it will execute tasks that we don’t do or no longer do due to lack of time,” adds Stéphane Roder.
A lighter version expected on Windows 11
In addition to the potential problems of protecting confidential data, everything will not be perfect in form at the beginning. “He gives a first draft or creates a PowerPoint with fairly standard slides as a tool can do,” highlight the two experts. “This will clearly not eliminate jobs straight away but will help to concentrate on tasks with higher added value,” summarizes Nicolas Gaudemet.
Expensive in computing power on servers, this digital assistance will not be immediately available to the general public. In the meantime, a lighter version of Copilot’s AI should soon arrive in France on Windows 11.
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