Big Copilot Updates
We have some big updates from Microsoft Copilot.
Copilot tends to be a bit behind ChatGPT in terms of capabilities, so it is pretty exciting to get so many new features released for us users.
If you are a Copilot user, you will love these new options.
If you are a ChatGPT user, you'll enjoy seeing how excited we are about things you've had for ages 😄, lucky you.
But hey - we get them baked into our Microsoft environment, so now we can do things like: Hey Copilot, every morning, brief me on my meetings for the day.
Or - every afternoon, let me know what is still outstanding in my email.
Pretty cool. Let's jump in.
Custom Instructions
Copilot now has custom instructions. We've been waiting for this for a long time.
Go into settings through the three dots and you'll find custom instructions.
Use it for instructions that you want to impact every one of your chats.
Things that Copilot should ALWAYS remember.
Like: always use Australian spelling and date format.
Or instructions on how you like your responses: short, long, in bullet points, with emojis, no emojis, etc.
Copilot Memory
Memory means that Copilot starts learning about us and our preferences and using this knowledge in chats.
During conversations, Copilot will pick up on interesting facts about us and write them to memory.
For transparency, it always tells us when it does that and we can go look at those memories and manage them.
For example, it learned that I'm interested in tools like ChatGPT, Copilot in Perplexity.
The easiest way to see how it happens is to ask it to remember something.
For example: please remember that I live in Melbourne.
Scheduled Tasks
Finally, very exciting, scheduled tasks.
We can ask Copilot to run a prompt on a schedule. Every day, every Monday etc.
I set up two scheduled tasks right away:
One for a summary of AI news in the morning.
The other, for a briefing of my day based on my calendar, emails and files.
How fun is that?
Copilot in Excel
Finally, the last thing that is coming, and it's very exciting, is the Copilot function inside Excel, which is not just a Copilot on the side, but literally AI inside cells.
We've had it in Google Gemini for a while where you could put a prompt in a cell, give it other cells, and it would activate that prompt on these cells.
I don't have access to it yet, but when I do, I will surely show it to you.
What's Next?
Play with all of these options, see what happens. You're not going to break anything.
I think Copilot is really becoming a good competition for ChatGPT, and while it makes choices harder to make, it creates real competition which is good for us users.
—-
Inbal Rodnay
Guiding Firms in Adopting AI and Automation
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