Microsoft last week revealed that Microsoft 365 Copilot would soon be available, and it appears to be a major game-changer.
At the enterprise level, it will assist you in locating anything you require both inside and outside the company. Over time, it will also learn details about you and your business, enabling it to handle a large portion of your email and typing needs, help you prepare presentations, and enhance your professional image in front of your boss and peers. However, it is still in its early stages and is only a ghost of what it will eventually become.
Let's look at how Microsoft 365 Copilot will probably develop as Apple, Google, and other companies scramble to catch up to or surpass it.
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People are apparently upset about this announcement because getting this functionality will cost you or your business $30 per user every month. Because Microsoft doesn't prepare the market for pricing measures, consumers are upset. In other words, unless you have been pricing the more constrained variants, which tend to be more expensive, the perception of what an AI is worth is that the price is too high.
What should the value of your own personal AI be?
According to the research I've read, productivity increases from using generative AI and having it learn how to collaborate with you range from 30% to 80%, which means you either work a lot less or accomplish a lot more in a given period of time.
That should be an easy choice for a business. Because so many have turned out to be fake, IT professionals tend to be wary of productivity promises. However, this bold statement was made by a Wharton professor, not Microsoft, who completed the work to assess the advantages.
Suppose you earn $60,000 a year. A improvement in productivity of 30% should be worth $20,000 annually, which is far more than $30 per month, and one of 80% should be worth $48,000 annually, or $2,000 per month.
By using the AI more frequently and mastering its use, you advance to the higher range. The potential worth of this tool, especially as it develops, might end up being multiples of your income, not just a portion of it, if the AI learns to perform more repetitive tasks or starts putting your ideas into action more precisely and efficiently.
The Future of Microsoft 365 Copilot
I hope that Microsoft revisits the Cortana idea and does it right this time with the complete avatar. I anticipate that this tool will eventually develop into a true AI-driven digital assistant. When supported with generative AI, it will take the place of Clippy—I preferred F1—and become into a true helper.
Imagine having a digital assistant that can arrange your vacation, keep an eye on your accounts, provide you information about the people who contact, text, or write to you, prevent phishing attempts, and answer your calls. It can give you better alerts, news, or information about global events that interest you, or it can just assist you in writing so that you can still be humorous without jeopardising your job by telling the wrong joke.
Microsoft Copilot will be able to attend meetings on your behalf, distribute information that is authorised in your place, and assist you with increasingly tedious and repetitive duties as it develops. It will be able to help you deal with people who have difficult-to-understand accents or speak in other languages and advise just the right response to a challenge or nasty comment.
In other words, it will be like having a personal assistant who is familiar with your business, the internet, and you, allowing you and the AI to work together more effectively than the sum of their individual parts.
In order to provide ever-more competent AI functions, all microprocessor suppliers are including specialised AI capabilities into the next generation of their processors. Microsoft is making efforts to make 365 Copilot utilise this technology. The performance of AI should significantly improve by the end of the year, rendering obsolete the 30% to 80% benefit as the gains continue to rise.
Microsoft is one of the most prolific AI businesses, and generative AI is here to stay. It introduced AI to Bing and is bringing it into the workplace with cutting-edge products that safeguard the company's data while enabling employees to use an ever-more-capable AI assistant.
Sadly, Microsoft is not working as hard as it previously did to create demand and make sure influencers are knowledgeable and helpful. As a result, adoption will be slower, giving us more time to master these new skills before we ourselves become outdated.
Do you recall how many entry-level positions required you to have knowledge of Office? It won't be long until that requirement extends to the different AI products that Microsoft and other companies are releasing on the market. I advise gaining proficiency with these tools as soon as you can to prevent becoming outdated.
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