Microsoft reveals AI 'copilot for work' that can write your emails and let you skip meetings

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Microsoft reveals AI 'copilot for work' that can write your emails and let you skip meetings
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Having already added ChatGPT-like features to its Bing search engine, Microsoft is doing the same for its suite of Office apps. Among the new features are drafting Outlook emails and summarising Teams meetings, as well as writing Word documents almost from scratch.

Microsoft said the new features would be rolled out to a limited number of customers initially, and acknowledged Copilot would likely make mistakes - as these AI models have proved prone to do.

They are known as large language models, as they are trained on huge amounts of text data and able to understand and produce human-like responses. But they have been shown to struggle to distinguish between right and wrong, and yet will often respond just as confidently either way. Microsoft says Copilot has been tested extensively and will be constantly monitored and improved during its rollout.

"When the system gets things wrong, or has biases, or is misused, we have mitigations in place," insisted the firm's chief scientist Jamie Teevan.Will this chatbot replace humans?It comes after Microsoft made a multibillion-dollar investment in ChatGPT's creator, OpenAI, with

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