Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview Microsoft has fresh tools out designed to help businesses build software agents powered by foundation models – overenthusiastically referred to as artificial intelligence, or AI. "Our vision is to empower every employee with a personal assistant via Copilot that allows them to tackle work's biggest pain points like meeting …
I hope the real-time interpreter is better than the Teams Transcription Service, as that is a complete pile of shite - despite Microsoft’s purchase of Nuance (Dragon Dictate) a couple of years back.
It’s as useless as the generated subtitles on Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube for mangling and skipping words.
"Agents built in Copilot Studio can operate independently, dynamically planning and learning from processes, adapting to changing conditions, and making decisions without the need for constant human intervention," explained Charles Lamanna's Copilot Autonomous Agent, corporate VP of business and industry for Copilot, in a blog post. "These autonomous agents can be triggered by data changes, events, and other background tasks – and not just through chat!"
Better still, maybe, "meeting participants can also have the Interpreter simulate their personal voice for a more inclusive experience." So, voice cloning, then? Zoom is pursuing something similar.
And of course this won't open up a whole new avenue of BEC-style attacks, where some hapless finance grunt in another country is convinced that wire transfer must absolutely happen right now because the CEO spoke to them in their native tongue.
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