The latest AI tools can help add a personal touch to Valentine’s Day images, graphics and text like a love poem. Add some details about your loved one (name, hobbies etc.) and AI can do its magic. Free AI tools like Copilot, Microsoft Designer, Dall-E or ChatGPT can make something
Just by using Copilot you’re giving Microsoft free access to anything you do or get from their AI system. It’s a legal trap that everyone needs to keep in mind. We found this buried in the Copilot Terms and Conditions (T&C’s) starting on the Bing web site https://www.bing.com/new/termsofuse (strange place
For yet another way to make AI images, perhaps with a different look, you can now try Google Bard. Bard is Google’s AI helper, now available in ‘most countries’ (Google’s wording) but only in English for the moment. It does all the things we’ve come to expect from a broad
Microsoft loves to boast about their “Copilot Copyright Commitment” but what does it really mean and how much protection do customers really get? There’s a concern that AI generated content might be subject to intellectual property (IP) law suits. Perhaps because an AI image or text is too similar to
Let’s take a moment to explain, without the hype, what Copilot is and what it can do for you and all Microsoft Office users including Office 2021,2019 and earlier. We’ll explain some ways Copilot can save time and money doing simple tasks for anyone with Microsoft Office. Beleive me that
We’ve been using Copilot and Copilot Pro for a little while and here’s our first impressions of Microsoft’s paid AI services as they exist today. In other words, what you get for your money right now. It’s hard to justify paying upfront $360 per user for a year commitment to
What you need to know about Copilot for Microsoft 365 which brings AI technology into Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Here’s how to get Copilot for Microsoft 365 and the secrets to getting it working. What is Copilot for Microsoft 365? Copilot for Microsoft 365 applies to Microsoft
There are two ways to try out paid Copilot for less money. If you’re not sure but want to try the enhanced AI features in Office there are a smart ways to get Copilot without dropping a lot of money in advance for unknown benefits. Let’s face it, Microsoft is
Microsoft’s push into AI continues with the announcement of a special Copilot button on some Microsoft keyboards. Will a Copilot key be any more popular than other Microsoft attempts to add their products onto keyboard? The Copilot key might look like this Or more likely this single color version: Keyboards
The Microsoft Designer home page has a major update that highlights some of its hidden features. These changes aren’t just cosmetic, but are a welcome boost to the functionality and usability of the opening page. The new Designer home page is in two parts: Get Started and My Projects. Get
It seems Sam Altman might be joining Microsoft to work on their artificial intelligence technologies with maybe 500+ of his staff following him. Is that really a good thing for customers wanting to get the most from AI technology. Microsoft actions over the last few days suggest it’s not the
Microsoft has announced SharePoint Premium, an advanced platform that adds artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and enhanced security features to the existing Sharepoint system. SharePoint Premium is designed change the way organizations manage and interact with critical content. It extends the capabilities of SharePoint with new tools for content engagement, security,
ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can enhance your Office VBA code with comments and help. It or Copilot can analyze your code and generate explanations, tips, and examples to make it easier to read and debug One of the modern AI tricks is to help write and understand programming
Microsoft has released a series of short and somewhat informative videos about their Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft Word. There are important details that are easy to miss in the video so we’ve added some still photos of features like changing the tone or style (including poem!), suggested prompts
OneNote desktop will start getting AI tools, CoPilot, from November 2023. According to a Microsoft Roadmap entry, ‘general availability*’ of CoPilot in OneNote will start next month. Not ‘1st November’ as some are reporting but starting during November. Copilot in OneNote will be able to make lists, create a plan
Stability.AI now has a quick and easy way to expand or extend an image. Using AI, it can take an existing image to make a larger version. Unlike other options like OpenAI’s Outpainting, ‘Uncrop’ is quite simple to use. Whatever you call it; Uncrop, Outpainting, extending etc, it’s a useful
Microsoft has released some information about what you’ll need to get their AI tools (called Copilot) when they are eventually released. Copilot is Microsoft’s name for their upcoming AI tools integrated into Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) plus other services like Teams. As with all Microsoft’s Copilot announcements,
CoPilot, Microsoft’s AI project, inches towards reality with news of a very limited preview plus hints that Dall-E like image creation will be possible from inside PowerPoint. OneNote, Outlook and Whiteboard will also get an AI makeover. Microsoft continues to make announcements about their AI product, CoPilot, as if it’s
Microsoft’s AI is available to use now to search or summarize web pages, PDF or any Office document. Use Bing as a peek at the future CoPilot AI system might do for Microsoft Office. Bing Discover is available in the latest Edge browser (Windows or Mac). It opens up two
Microsoft has confirmed that their AI helper tools, called CoPilot will be added to OneNote. Here’s some ideas of what the AI system will add to OneNote. CoPilot will be interesting and useful in many ways but the Microsoft Hype ™ is getting way ahead of reality. The OneNote with
According to Microsoft, their AI integration Copilot is “A whole new way to work” and will “Transform the way we work”. That’s true, but not as quickly or as well as their overstated hype suggests. Here’s why I’m cautious about the Copilot promises. Microsoft is rushing both publicity and release
The Microsoft Copilot announcements reach new heights, or lows of Microsoft Hype™ depending on your point of view. We’re used to reading lots of ‘excitement’ from Microsoft that’s impressive sounding but essentially meaningless. Perhaps this pre-announcement for Copilot was mostly about Microsoft wanting to maintain the appearance of being ahead
Strip away the hype and vague promises for the upcoming Microsoft Copilot and see what these AI features can do for you. As regular Office Watch readers know, we prefer to talk about products we can use ourselves. Until we can do that, we’ve stripped away the considerable Copilot hype
An early peek at Microsoft Copilot, a new part of Microsoft 365 that’s so new it’s not yet available to “Insiders”. We’ll carefully look at Copilot in PowerPoint which can make a whole slide deck based on an existing Office document. The ever-reliable Walking Cat has leaked an image and
