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Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona
Powered by OpenAI's latest models, Microsoft's Copilot assistant is becoming a lot more handy—and wants to be an "encouraging" digital coworker.
The company is overhauling Copilot, the text-based artificial intelligence tool bundled with Windows and other software, with the addition of vision, voice, and the ability to solve more complex problems—along with a more “encouraging” personality. But although OpenAI is still widely considered a leader in AI, it has been beset by turbulence, most recently the departures last week of CTO Mira Murati and two senior engineers leading research efforts. Shane Greenstein, a professor at Harvard Business School who has studied Microsoft’s AI strategy, says it will be more challenging to design a useful general purpose helper; he adds that the company’s experimental new features still need to prove their value to users.
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