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In aposton the official Microsoft blog , Yusuf Mehdi , Microsoft ’s master marketing officer , outlined what users can expect .
“ Today mark exactly one twelvemonth since our entry into AI - power experiences for mass withBing Chat , ” he publish . “ In that class , we ’ve see so many new things , and seen the utilization of our Copilot experience irrupt with over 5 billion chats and 5 billion icon created to day of the month . . . Now with Copilot as our singular experience for people count to get more out of AI creation , we ’re introducing further . . . capableness . ”
We have also now amply send Deucalion , a fine tune up modelling that makes Balanced mode for@MicrosoftCopilot richer and faster.pic.twitter.com/pGrrhVnTYS
— Jordi Ribas ( @JordiRib1)February 7 , 2024
The co-pilot experience on the web , Android and iOS now sport an improved AI exemplar , Deucalion , along with a more “ sleek flavour and palpate , ” Mehdi said — with a clear stylus for answers and a carousel of paint a picture prompts to feed Copilot ( e.g. , “ How would you excuse AI to a sixth grader ? ” ) .
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Designerin Copilot , meanwhile — a peter that taps procreative AI role model like OpenAI’sDALL - E 3to turn prompt into images — has new redaction capableness .
All English - speaking Copilot drug user in the U.S. , U.K. , Australia , India and New Zealand can now edit out images in - assembly line in the stream of a chat — for instance , colorizing an object , blurring an image screen background or convert the style of the image ( for instance , to pixel art ) . And reader to Copilot Pro , Microsoft ’s $ 20 - per - month premium Copilot plan , can resize and regenerate figure between “ satisfying ” ( i.e. , portrait ) and landscape .
come soon to Copilot is Designer GPT , Mehdi aver , which will offer a more “ immersive , dedicated canvas ” inside Copilot where users can “ visualize their ideas . ”
Designer caused quite a stir earlier this year when malicious users , mostly from the image add-in 4chan , used the tool to createpornographic deepfakesof Taylor Swift — and distribute them across X ( formerly Twitter ) . couturier had guardrail design to foreclose inappropriate prompt , Microsoft claimed — but usersfound loopholes like misspelling names and describing images that did n’t explicitly utilize sexual term but generate the same result .
Last calendar month , Microsoft suppose that it addressed the Designer loopholes by making it impossible to beget fame images . But , as with all GenAI peter , it ’s likely to be a never - ending cat - and - black eye game between bad actors and vendors .
“ Microsoft ’s advancements in AI align with our company deputation to indue every soul and organization on the major planet to achieve more , ” Mehdi go on . “ With Copilot , we ’re democratize our breakthrough in AI to help make the promise of AI real for everyone . ”
Copilot Pro issupposedto come with priority access to the underlie OpenAI models powering Copilot even during tip time , but exploiter report get by with exceptionally retentive generation fourth dimension andother , potentially relate bugs . Windows key speculates that the root of the problem is deficient server capacity , but miss official comment , it ’s impossible to know for certain .
