Microsoft announces the arrival of a new key on PC keyboards. Through a press release published on Thursday January 4, 2024, the Redmond firm reveals the function of this new key, Copilot, which acts as a real assistant based on artificial intelligence.
The look of PC keyboards is about to evolve. This Thursday, January 4, 2024, Microsoft announces that it will equip the keyboards of its computers with a new key. An announcement made through a press release shared by the Redmond firm aiming to democratize the use of artificial intelligence within its machines. Baptized Copilotthis new key on PC keyboards presents itself as a real assistant powered by artificial intelligence.
This must integrate the keyboard of future PCs from the company founded by Bill Gates in 1981, and concentrate a set of functionalities that the user can entrust to artificial intelligence to support them in these office tasks. “The introduction of the Copilot key is the first significant change to our computer keyboards in almost three decades. Nearly 30 years ago, we introduced the Windows key to our computer keyboards, which allowed people around the world to interact with Windows”specifies Yusuf Mehd, Marketing Manager at Microsoftin a communicated about this key that embeds AI in the company’s PCs.
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Microsoft presents Copilot at CES in Las Vegas
An objective made possible thanks to the integration of one of the most famous AI algorithms of the moment, that of ChatGPT. The integration of artificial intelligence is therefore not limited to a simple key added to the computer keyboard and also concerns the entire software suite published by Microsoft. In other words, users can expect to find the wizard again Copilot within applications Word, Excel or Power point.
A simple click of the button Copilot is therefore sufficient to call on the performance of artificial intelligence when using this software in order to optimize its performance in terms of word processing, data manipulation in a spreadsheet or graphic formatting. The objective for Windows is to make the work of users of its software suite easier by using AI performance in several areas. A field of possibilities that Microsoft must try to illustrate during their participation in the THESE of Las Vegas, high mass of technological innovation planned for January 9 to 12, 2024 in Nevada.
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Without giving an official release date for its key Copilot, Microsoft estimates that this should be available from the end of February 2024. A new feature to which European users will not have access initially, due in particular to local legislation governing artificial intelligence.
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