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Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is overseeing an overhaul that gives Copilot an empathetic voice, the ability to see, and more advanced reasoning skills.

As a cofounder of DeepMind, a British company acquired by Google in 2014, he helped devise a new way for computers to tackle seemingly impossible problems by combining practice with positive and negative feedback. DeepMind demonstrated the approach by developing a superhuman Go-playing program, AlphaGo, which defeated the world’s best Go player in 2016. But I think the real thing is trying to design the conversation so that the agent is able to articulate boundaries, so it can say that's not something I'm prepared to engage in.

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