Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered chatbot and assistant family, is getting some new upgrades to coincide with its splashy Super Bowl LVIII ad campaign.
In a post on Microsoft's official blog, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's chief marketing officer, outlined what users can expect.
“Today marks exactly one year since we gave people AI-powered experiences with Bing Chat,” he wrote. “We learned so many new things that year, and the use of the Copilot experience exploded, with over 5 billion chats and 5 billion images created to date… We're introducing even more, using Copilot as the only experience for people who want to get more out of their creation abilities.”
The Copilot experience on the web, Android, and iOS now features an improved AI model, Deucalion, with a more “streamlined look and feel.” Mehdi says a cleaner answer style and a carousel of suggested prompts to fill out in Copilot (e.g., “How would he explain AI to a 6th grader?”).
Meanwhile, Copilot's Designer, a tool that leverages generative AI models such as OpenAI's DALL-E 3 to turn prompts into images, has new editing capabilities.
An upgraded Copilot experience on the web. Image credits: microsoft
All English-speaking Copilot users in the US, UK, Australia, India, and New Zealand can now edit images inline in the chat flow. For example, coloring objects, blurring the background of images, changing the style of images, etc. (such as pixel art). Additionally, subscribers to Copilot Pro, Microsoft's premium $20/month Copilot plan, can resize and regenerate images between “square” (i.e., portrait) and landscape orientations.
Mehdi said Copilot will soon have Designer GPT, which will provide a more “immersive and dedicated canvas” within Copilot where users can “visualize their ideas.”
The designer caused a huge stir earlier this year when malicious users, primarily from the image board 4chan, used the tool to create a porn deepfake of Taylor Swift and spread it to X (formerly Twitter). I did.Microsoft claimed that the designer had guardrails designed to prevent inappropriate prompts, but users Loopholes were found, such as misspelled names and image descriptions that didn't explicitly use sexual terms, but produced the same results.
Microsoft announced last month that it had addressed the designer loophole by making it impossible to generate images of celebrities. But as with all his GenAI tools, it's likely to be a never-ending game of cat and mouse between bad actors and vendors.
“Microsoft's advances in AI align with our mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more,” Mehdi continued. “With Copilot, we are democratizing AI breakthroughs and making the promise of AI a reality for everyone.”
Mehdi did not address Copilot Pro's performance issues, a common complaint among early subscribers.
copilot pro is Assumption Although it provides priority access to the underlying OpenAI models that power Copilot, even during peak times, users may find themselves dealing with unusually long generation times and other potentially related bugs. I am reporting. Windows Central speculates that the root of the problem is a lack of server capacity, but with no official comment, it's impossible to know for sure.