For this 50th birthdayMicrosoft teaches Copilot Chatbot powered by AI some new tricks.
Copilot can now take action on “more sites”, says Microsoft, allowing him to book tickets, maintain restaurants and much more. The bot has gained the ability to remember specific things for you, similar to the Openai chatgpt, such as your favorite food and movies. And he can now analyze real -time videos from your phone, answering questions in the context of what he “sees”.
Upgrades come as Microsoft is expected Mulling a Copilot renovation, which has historically been powered by AI models by Openai, with more technology. Copilot has often been lagging behind the Rivals Chatgpt and Google’s Gemini, which in recent months have only increased the rate of growth growth.
Since Friday, Copilot can complete internet work according to how “agency” tools such as the Openai operator do it. Microsoft reports that it has worked with 1-800-flowers.com, Booking.com, Expedia, Kayak, Opendable, Priceline, TripAdvisor, Skyscanner, Viator and VRBO for day-one compatibility. Enter a prompt-for example, “Send a bouquet to my partner”-and Copilot will try to check this particular obligation from your list.
Taking a page from the book of Purplexity search engine, Copilot can also monitor e -tenders for you. Tell the bot to look for price falls and sales in an item and will notify you when they happen – and they will present you a link to buy.
How well Copilot performs various jobs is not clear. Microsoft gave a few details about how the possibility operates and, unlike some of its competitors, it did not publish data indicating areas where Copilot can fight or need a person to intervene.
Probably, it is possible for the sites to block the copilot, just as they are able to block the Openai operator. A company can do it if it is Worrying, for example, that fewer people visit the application directly could harm the advertising revenue.
Fortunately, the other new Copilot features are less cloudy and potentially full of controversy.
Improved Copilot can create a “podcast” similar to audio reviews on Google’s Notebooklm. Given a site, a study or other source, Copilot will create a dialogue between two synthetic hosts. As with the audio reviews, you can stop the central computers anywhere to ask a question and will recognize and answer.
In Android and iOS, Copilot can now see what’s through your phone’s camera or photo collection and answer questions about it (eg, “What is this odd flower?”). And in Windows, the updated Copilot application can see what’s on your desktop screen to search, change settings, organize files and much more. It will be released first for members of the Windows Insider program that starts next week.
This journalist will hope that there are reasonable safeguards to prevent Copilot from reading private files or making mistakes that break the desktop. But the information was difficult to come before the press time.
Elsewhere, Copilot has a new pages that approved the project, which draws heavily inspiration from the Claude Artifacts tool of Chatgpt Canvas and Anthropic. The pages put notes and research on a canvas that Copilot can help in the organization and become a document.
In addition to the pages, the new deep research features of Copilot, analyzes and combines information from online sources, documents and images to answer more complex questions, such as Chatgpt Deep Research and deep research by Gemini.
Finally, as mentioned earlier, Copilot can now remember more about you. Microsoft says the bot will mark your preferences as you interact with it, offering “custom solutions”, “preventive suggestions” and reminders.
If the prospect of a chatbot remembers familiar details about your previous conversations is bothering you, there is a way to delete individual “memories” or to leave completely, microsoft notes.
“Copilot [gives] You can check through the user control panel and choose which types of information you remember for you or to leave entirely, “Microsoft writes in a blog post provided on TechCrunch.” You remain in the check. “
