AI Copilot features coming soon to OneNote, Loop, and Whiteboard apps

It is going to be interesting to see how Microsoft's Copilot add in is going to work inside these products. Microsoft has provided a list of Features that we should be looking for. See below:

• Copilot in Whiteboard will make Microsoft Teams meetings and brainstorms more creative and effective. Using natural language, you can ask Copilot to generate ideas, organize ideas into themes, create designs that bring ideas to life and summarize whiteboard content.
• By integrating DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generator, into PowerPoint, users will be able to ask Copilot to create custom images to support their content.
• AI-powered coaching tips and suggestions on clarity, sentiment and tone in Outlook will help users write more effective emails and communicate more confidently.
• Copilot in OneNote will use prompts to draft plans, generate ideas, create lists and organize information to help customers find what they need easily.
• Copilot in Loop helps your team stay in sync by quickly summarizing all the content on your Loop page to keep everyone aligned and able to collaborate effectively.
• Copilot in Viva Learning will use a natural language chat interface to help users create a personalized learning journey including designing upskilling paths, discovering relevant learning resources and scheduling time for assigned trainings.

With Copilot in Microsoft 365, much of that technology is also coming to Office. Unlike Bing AI, however, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is not yet in public preview. Microsoft has been testing it with 20 enterprise customers, and has just announced a paid preview program for 600 enterprise customers to partake in if they wish. There's no word on when Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be available publicly just yet.

OK, Really! Microsoft says people are too tired to work but that AI can help

Microsoft`s Annual Work Trends Index discussed workers feelings about Artificial Intelligence applications, and how they feel about using them in the workplace. What bothered me the most in the initial paragraphs of the article, Was that two out of thre workers stated that they don't have enough time or energy to Complete their jobs. My question is Whether we are asking too much from our Workers, or is it that we have the work ethic of years past? I don't see the innovation of finding new to increase efficiency even with all the tools we are being handed.

I can see the use case for AI being used to gather non-opinionated data to help with research but we need to be really careful about AI generated opinion pieces because someone had to write the code to help to generate the opinion in the first place. This is very worrisome to me. I think we pay way too much attention to others in social media without thinking fr themselves.

Another interesting result of their poll was that 70% of the workers want to utilize AI in their workplace but on the the other hand, almost half of them were worried that AI might cause them to lose their current jobs. I think this is a needless worry since most managers probably see AI as just another tool for you to make your work more effective. It probably is a possibility if you don't make use of this technology that you might have an issue. But that is that is the case underperforming in any job.

I should think that in any case you should always be on the lookout for any tool at your disposal that will enhance your ability to do your job in a more efficiently with better results.