Microsoft has announced a new AI-powered "Copilot" feature for Microsoft 365's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams applications. All of these programs will use Copilot for intelligent content generation. On March 16, the company hosted the "The Future of Work with AI" event, where all the announcements were made.
Category: Software
The Bing chatbot is actually based on the GPT-4 language model
Recently, OpenAI revealed a new language model GPT-4, which is superior to GPT-3.5 in many ways. It can solve complex tasks thanks to more careful training. Duolingo, Stripe, Khan Academy and other companies are working on integrating GPT-4 into their products. Microsoft has also confirmed that their Bing chatbot is based on the GPT-4 model.
OpenAI announces GPT-4 language model
OpenAI has announced a new GPT-4 language model that the company says is more creative and collaborative than ever before. It can solve complex problems with greater accuracy due to greater knowledge and problem-solving abilities.
The new ChatGPT-4 model will be introduced this week
Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun announced during the AI in Focus - Digital Kickoff event that the latest GPT-4 language model will be unveiled this week. It will not only be more powerful than the current version of GPT-3.5 used in ChatGPT, but will also receive a number of new features, including the ability to generate video. It will have "multimodal models" that allow for more types of content generation.
PowerToys 0.68.1 allows binding Ctrl + V to its ‘Paste as Text’ tool
Quickly after the release of the major version 0.68, PowerToys have received a new update. PowerToys 0.68.1 fixes a number of issues users found in its new tool, 'Paste as Text', along with a few others.
PowerToys 0.68 released with two new tools, Paste as Plain Text and Mouse Jump
If you track PowerToys development, today's release could be the one you was waiting for. Besides various fixes and improvements, PowerToys 0.68 brings two new tools, Paste as Plain Text and Mouse Jump, to the stable branch of the app suite.
Winamp relaunches as on March 15 as a Streaming Service with Music Subscriptions
Llama Group (formerly Radionomy Group) is relaunching the Winamp project on March 15 as a streaming service with musician subscriptions. The company is expecting to attract 1 million musicians to the platform. The key highlights are as follows.
Microsoft has revealed some details on its Bing bot creation
Microsoft has published a lengthy post that reveals some details on creation their Bing bot. The OpenAI's model combined with the Bing data allowed them to build an exciting product, but the bot's history dates back at least six years.
The AI-powered Bing comes to Skype and Edge on mobile, adds voice input support
Microsoft has released preview versions of the Bing and Edge apps that support the recently launched ChatGPT-based Bing chatbot for Android and iOS. The company notes that 64% of search queries are on smartphones, so they consider it a very important release.
Microsoft is experimenting with OpenAI technologies in Minecraft
Mojang Studios and Microsoft are experimenting with bringing AI to Minecraft. They are trying to make it more accessible to gamers. The information comes from Semafor that refers to its own sources. Moreover, Microsoft has already held an internal presentation where it demonstrated a version of Minecraft with large-scale integration of the OpenAI platform.
