Microsoft's AI Future of Work Event: Everything Revealed in 8 Minutes

welcome and thank you for joining us we are here today to talk about something that's very fundamental to The Human Experience the way we work introducing Microsoft 365 co-pilot your co-pilot for work copilot combines the power of large language models with your data in the Microsoft graph and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways first it works alongside you embedded in the apps millions of people use every day word excel PowerPoint Outlook teams and more second we're introducing an entirely new experience business chat that works across all of your data and apps your documents emails calendar chats meetings and contacts to do things that you've never been able to do before and copilot is built on Microsoft's comprehensive approach to security compliance privacy and responsible AI so you know it's Enterprise ready using just your own words you can put copilot to work gathering information in real time from across your data and apps to unleash creativity unlock productivity and up level skills now you can be more creative in word more Analytical in Excel more expressive in PowerPoint and more productive in Outlook and even more collaborative in teams you ask copilot to visualize what contributed to the decline in sales growth this period copilot adds a little color to make the problem jump off the page now you want to dig deeper and ask a follow-up question copilot not only answers your question it creates a simple model of the scenario and it even asks you if you want to learn more about what it did with a step-by-step breakdown finally you can ask it to create a graph of your projected model copilot turned a sea of data into clear insights and actions let me show you how copilot can help you tackle your email we all struggle with the pull of the inbox sometimes it keeps us from focusing on our most important work but at the same time you do have important emails to respond to co-pilot separates the signal from the noise and gives you hours of time back co-pilot can help you triage your inbox highlighting the most important emails to prioritize and co-pilot also helps you on the go in Outlook mobile it can summarize long email threads you can draft a reply using data from an Excel file and copilot will generate a reply for you you can edit it you can make it more concise you can even change the writing style or add more context now all that's left to do is review the proposed response and hit send copilot is a productivity game changer let me take a moment to explain what you just saw to build co-pilot we didn't just connect chat GPT to Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 co-pilot is powered by what we call the copilot system a sophisticated processing and orchestration engine it harnesses the power of three foundational Technologies the Microsoft 365 apps that's word excel PowerPoint Outlook teams and more the Microsoft graph that's all your content and context your emails files meetings chats and calendar and a large language model or llm a creative engine capable of parsing and producing human readable text all accessible through natural language it starts with a prompt from you in an app copilot pre-processes The Prompt through an approach called grounding put simply grounding improves the quality of the prompt so you get answers that are relevant and actionable one of the most important parts of grounding is making a call to the Microsoft graph to retrieve your business content and context copilot combines this user data from the graph with other inputs to improve the prompt it then sends that modified prompt to the llm you may be familiar with what an llm can do based on your experience with chatgpt or Bing chat copilot takes the response from the llm and post processes it this post-processing includes additional grounding calls to the graph responsible AI checks security compliance and privacy reviews and command generation finally copilot sends a response to the user and commands back to the apps co-pilot iteratively processes and orchestrates these sophisticated services to produce a result that feels like magic it looks like you have a dentist appointment that conflicts with your weekly Business Review what if you could do both with copilot you can follow a meeting and catch up to see what you missed even if you can't attend you'll get a notification in teams when the recap is ready and you can see the content that was shared detailed notes and any action items you see there was some discussion about your customer you can ask copilot specific questions to get more context and it provides a detailed response you can ask questions like why a certain decision was made or what other options were considered and it provides citations with a snapshot of the transcript it's a huge Time Saver so that was pretty cool but the real magic of copilot happens during a live meeting here you're in a meeting with your team you can ask co-pilot to summarize what's happened so far you can see who said what what points were made copilot is really capturing the spirit of the discussion as the meeting progresses you can check on where people stand you can even ask copilot what questions are unresolved you may not have heard of loop loop is a multiplayer collaboration canvas with co-pilot as an AI peer-tier team along with everyone else let's try it out here the team is collaborating in real time on product offers and pricing any notes and action items to keep everyone on track and up to date you can ask copilot to pull data from Excel on the top selling products by category and within seconds is processing the information another member of your team jumps in and adds a column and anyone can prompt copilot to build on each other's ideas everything is captured in prompt history and we not only build grounding into the system we also built verification into the experience we added citations and introduced forms of friction to encourage back and forth collaboration and included feedback mechanism so people could let us know when we get it wrong our goal is to give people agency to help people get started copilot suggests good prompts if you don't like what it does there's the try again button you always have the option to use adjust discard or undo you saw that in the demos today we're deeply committed to listening learning and adapting with speed to help create a brighter future of work for everyone with AI thank you

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Length: 7min 51sec (471 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 16 2023

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