The Microsoft Build 2023 conference held today started with the showcase of innovations where artificial intelligence is the absolute hero. The company Redmond, which has invested a lot of time (and money) in this space, has introduced it to several business areas (powering Azure), but there is also room for improvements that impact end users.

The most notable arrival Windows Copilot for Windows 11What Microsoft describes as the first PC platform designed to centralize AI support.

This assistant will be responsible for providing personalized responses and helping users perform certain actions in Windows 11. For example, changing a certain system parameter, playing a playlist or opening the appropriate application.

The operation of Windows Copilot for Windows 11 is based on Bing Chat and also draws on information gathered from your training and web content. To all this is added context surrounding users’ requests for more relevant answers.

this wizard can be attached to the side panel such that it will always be located in a margin of the screen and maintain the persistence of being close to any user-agent. Windows Copilot will begin rolling out as a preview for Windows 11 during June.

There will be other improvements in the field of artificial development: there will be an option to enjoy Windows 11 real-time generated subtitles (Live Subtitles) through language recognition and speech-to-text conversion. This option is now supported in 10 more languages, bringing the total to 21.

ChatGPT plugins are coming to Bing Chat

The Redmond company also mentioned Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is currently in private beta. It will now be natively integrated into Microsoft Edge, allowing more features to be added to the browser and allowing you to answer questions or complete tasks.

Microsoft also took the opportunity to announce that it will adopt the same open plugin standard OpenAI offers for ChatGPT. Thus, it will be possible to enjoy interoperability between ChatGPT and Microsoft’s co-pilot offer. Plugins that have already upgraded their custom revolution The world of ChatGPT has now been extended to the AI ​​ecosystem created by Microsoft.

Therefore, users will be able to launch a platform to create plugins that work for both end-user and professional services. These include ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot (in preview), and Microsoft 365 Copilot (in preview).

In fact, at Microsoft they ensure that if users develop their own AI applications using the Azure OpenAI Service, they are interoperable by default with these same standard plugins.

Bing Chat with ChatGPT will be one of the first to benefit for the end user, in addition to the plugins already running in ChatGPT Plus Like OpenTable or Wolfram AlphaIt will be possible to have others such as Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Redfin and Zillow.

AI will sign its own images

In line with the efforts we’re starting to see in the industry, Microsoft Designer and Bing Image are now adding new media source features.

Thus, Bing Image Creator allows consumers to check if an image or video was created by artificial intelligence. This system uses cryptographic methods to mark and sign AI-generated content with metadata about its source.

In the Build 2023 keynote, Microsoft stated that it was one of the first companies involved in developing image source authentication methods, and was also a co-founder of Project Origin and Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

With the Microsoft system, images created by manufacturer AI tools will be signed and verified according to the C2PA standard. Main image and video formats will be supported. For Microsoft Designer and Bing Image Creator, and the system will begin rolling out in the coming months.

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