How to Increase Work Productivity with Microsoft’s New AI Features

To strengthen its position in the artificial intelligence sector, Microsoft updated Copilot and grouped these changes under the name of “second hello”What it does is inject new features into your productivity programs, such as Word, Excel o Outlook.

As a relevant fact, this system is based on GPT-4o, OpenAI’s most powerful massive language model (LLM) that introduces advanced capabilities in text, vision and audio.

Microsoft also promised to implement the new o1, which was announced this week with unique features: it works slower, although it is more accurate for certain tasks, especially those related to scientific research, mathematics and programming.

Thanks to the potential of the new models, it introduced new functions and services based on Generative AIThe most interesting one is Copilot Pages. Microsoft defines it as a pattern of working with multiple users at the same time, with collaboration between humans and AI.

It’s worth noting that Pages is the only new product, everything else is just updates. This new addition aims to unite the research carried out in Copilot and collaborative work.

In short, it is a new dynamic and persistent canvas, designed for real-time collaboration. It allows users to edit, add content and share it with others, turning ephemeral AI-generated content into long-lasting data.

Microsoft will also be rolling out Pages in the coming weeks to users of the free version of Microsoft Copilot who sign in with a Microsoft account using Sign In, a cloud-based identity and access management service.

Spreadsheets also benefit from Copilot’s features, allowing you to work with data that has not been formatted as a table. It also supports various formulas, such as XLOOKUP and SUMIF, and conditional formatting.

It is also compatible with Python, allowing for advanced data analysis without programming. Visualization capabilities and advanced formulas have also been improved.

As for Copilot for PowerPoint, it already has general availability of Narrative Builder, an assistant for creating the first draft of a presentation in minutes.

To do this, it starts with a prompt to generate an outline with topics that can be edited and customized. In the near future, it will also be possible to add files to the outline.

The email environment already supported the use of a drafting assistant, and now it adds new capabilities. It can analyze the content of emails and their context (for example, who sent them) to tidy up the tray input and display the most relevant ones for the user first.

Copilot was already available for use in Microsoft Word, but was somewhat limited. Starting this month, AI will be able to use not only data from websites and our work, but also from our PowerPoints, PDFs, and even emails and meetings.

In today’s meetings, there are two important conversations: the one being spoken and the one taking place in the chat. Copilot in Teams can now analyze both the meeting transcript and the chat to provide a complete picture of the conversation. what was discussed.