Re: Microsoft Edge For Macs
Keena Wiegert
Copilot can do much more than just chat, however, as it also features Generative AI or GenAI for creative work. You can ask it to write computer code, create images or music, organize information for you, look up travel and shopping info, or even tell you jokes.
To access and read about Copilot on the web, go to copilot.microsoft.com. If you choose to log in with your Microsoft account, Copilot will learn from and store your previous Copilot sessions so that it can work better when you use it later in future sessions.
The web-based version of Copilot is simple and has a chat prompt at the bottom of the page along with several buttons for GenAI tasks and settings. If you give Copilot access to your computer's microphone, you can also ask it questions using voice control so you don't have to type your prompts.
If you install Copilot from the share menu, it simply adds a web shortcut to the Microsoft Copilot page in the Finder's Dock on your Mac so that when you click it you're redirected to the Copilot web page.
If you download Copilot from the Mac App Store, you get a standalone Mac app, which you can add to your Dock by dragging it there or by double-clicking it in the Finder. We'll get to the standalone Mac version in a moment.
For business subscribers of Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard, companies can purchase Copilot Pro for use in 365 business apps for $30/seat,. However, based on the combined cost of the Business 365 subscription and the Copilot Pro subscription, it may be cheaper just to go with the basic 365 Personal user subscriptions since they are $69.99 and $99.99 per month each.
If you want to build your own custom Copilots, Microsoft has released a new tool called Microsoft Copilot Studio. Using Studio you can design and assemble your own Copilots with custom prompts, models, topics, and agents.
By Using Studio you can design Copilots tailored to specific users, guide user conversations, and decide what information the Bing backend will use to determine and provide answers to Copilot interactions.
To chat, type or speak your prompt into the text field at the bottom of the window and hit the Return key on your Mac's keyboard. Copilot will connect to the Microsoft Bing search backend and reply (usually within seconds) with a response.
Chatbots and AI are still very new and we are just beginning to see what they can do. As AI learns, it gets better and faster, and as the worldwide base of knowledge for LLMs grows, chatbots and GenAI will become more and more useful, and more accurate in the future.
AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we work and interact with computers, and it will save us countless hours of time on mundane work like looking things up or obtaining simple information which is already available around the world.
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