Artificial intelligence at the heart of the operating system: this is the promise of Copilot, the AI module that Microsoft will integrate into Windows. A revolutionary concept that is making great strides with great promises.
A month ago, during Build 2023, the annual Microsoft developer conference, Panos Panay, Windows and Devices Product Manager, announced with great fanfare the arrival of Copilot, the artificial intelligence module directly integrated into the system. operating (read our article). A breakthrough that would make Windows the very first OS to have such a function from the outset. The goal is to do without specific tools and apps to access AI in order to take advantage of it in the easiest way possible for Windows users. And this integration seems to be on the right track according to the information collected by the site WindowsLatest.
According to its journalists who were able to manipulate Copilot, the device would rely on both Bing Chat, the conversational AI developed with OpenAI, and Edge, the home browser to draw its answers from the Web. Until then, nothing more than what several apps like BingGPT for example offer. Nevertheless, Copilot would push the cork further. It will be possible to ask him to perform actions that directly affect the system such as modifying certain Windows settings such as switching the display mode, activating the Do not disturb mode, etc. or to open a particular application. In short, Copilot could finally respond to requests with which Cortana, Microsoft’s voice assistant, has always encountered difficulties.
Copilot would also be able to detect on its own the applications you use in order to offer its services, in line with the tasks in progress. For example, it can help you write an email when you launch Outlook or write or summarize a text as soon as you launch Word. Copilot could also make it possible to interact with other apps (not designed by Microsoft), thanks to plugins. A good way to make it a very useful element at the heart of the PC.
According windowslatest, Copilot should appear in the preliminary versions of Windows (the Insiders program) in the coming weeks, allowing developers of all kinds to manipulate it and report bugs but also to design plugins to take advantage of them. The revolution is on.