Microsoft's AI Future of Work Event: Everything Revealed in 8 Minutes

Introduction

Welcome and thank you for joining us today as we delve into a topic that is fundamental to the human experience: the way we work. In this session, we are excited to introduce Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot—your co-pilot for work.

Co-Pilot harnesses the power of large language models in conjunction with your data in the Microsoft Graph and Microsoft 365 apps, transforming your words into one of the most powerful productivity tools out there.

How Co-Pilot Works

Co-Pilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two key ways:

Embedded Integration: Co-Pilot works alongside you, embedded in the widely-used Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and many more.
Business Chat: This entirely new experience operates across all your data and apps—documents, emails, calendars, chats, meetings, and contacts—allowing you to perform tasks that were previously unimaginable.

Co-Pilot also has a robust underpinning built on Microsoft's comprehensive approach to security, compliance, privacy, and responsible AI, ensuring it's enterprise-ready.

Using just your own words, Co-Pilot allows you to gather information in real-time from your data and apps, enhancing creativity, productivity, and skill development. You can be more creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, more expressive in PowerPoint, and more productive in Outlook. With Teams, you can collaborate more effectively.

Real-World Applications

For example, if you need insights about a decline in sales growth, Co-Pilot can visualize this data effectively. You can ask follow-up questions, and Co-Pilot creates a model to look deeper into the issue, even offering a step-by-step breakdown. Finally, you can generate a graph of your projections from this model, transforming raw data into clear insights and actionable steps.

Co-Pilot can also tackle your emails, alleviating the burden of a crowded inbox. By triaging emails and highlighting the most important messages, Co-Pilot gives you back hours of time. It also helps summarize long email threads and can draft replies using data from Excel, which can then be modified according to your preferences.

The Technology Behind Co-Pilot

But how does Co-Pilot achieve this? It’s not just a simple connection of ChatGPT to Microsoft 365. It operates on the Co-Pilot system, a sophisticated orchestration engine powered by:

Microsoft 365 Apps: All the familiar tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and others.
Microsoft Graph: This encompasses your content and context, including emails, files, meetings, chats, and calendars.
Large Language Model (LLM): This creative engine can parse and produce human-readable text through natural language prompts from you.

The process begins with your prompt, which Co-Pilot improves using a technique called grounding. Grounding enhances prompt quality, ensuring you get relevant and actionable responses. The modified prompt is sent to the LLM, which processes it. Co-Pilot then post-processes the LLM's output, conducting further grounding calls to the graph and performing essential checks for security, compliance, and privacy, which results in a refined response.

Copilot in Meetings

In a scenario where you’re juggling multiple commitments, such as a dentist appointment and a crucial business review, Co-Pilot ensures you won’t miss out. You can follow along with meeting recaps prepared for you in Teams, highlighting key discussions and decisions made. If you need further details, simply ask Co-Pilot specific questions, and you’ll receive detailed responses with helpful citations of relevant transcripts.

The true magic happens during live meetings, where you can request Co-Pilot to summarize discussions or identify unresolved questions. With features like Loop—a collaborative multiplayer canvas—teams can work in real-time, pulling in data from Excel quickly and prompting Co-Pilot to assist in idea generation and decision-making.

Co-Pilot enhances group collaboration and continually captures all prompts, allowing users to provide feedback if results aren’t satisfactory. Microsoft encourages users to suggest better prompts or utilize features like "try again," ensuring everyone has agency over their experience.

Microsoft is committed to listening and adapting quickly to create a brighter future of work for everyone through AI innovation.

Keywords

Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot
Productivity Tool
Large Language Models
Microsoft Graph
Business Chat
Email Management
Real-Time Collaboration
AI Integration

FAQ

What is Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot?
Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot is an integrated productivity tool that combines large language models with your data and applications within Microsoft 365 to improve work efficiency.

How is Co-Pilot different from ChatGPT?
Co-Pilot is part of a sophisticated system that includes Microsoft 365 apps, the Microsoft Graph, and a large language model. It is designed for enterprise use and incorporates security, compliance, and privacy features.

What are the primary benefits of using Co-Pilot?
Co-Pilot helps enhance creativity, unlock productivity, and develop skills by providing real-time insights and facilitating collaboration across different Microsoft applications.

Can Co-Pilot help with email management?
Yes, Co-Pilot can triage your inbox, highlight important messages, summarize long email threads, and even draft responses based on information from other applications like Excel.

How does Co-Pilot assist during meetings?
During meetings, Co-Pilot can summarize discussions, provide context for decisions made, and assist teams in collaborating effectively in real time on shared projects.

What should users do if they find Co-Pilot's responses unsatisfactory?
Users can give feedback on the prompts or results, utilize the "try again" feature, and adjust or change prompts to refine Co-Pilot's outputs.