from an AI agent working for you to an assistant guide in Minecraft

There is no CEO right now who has Satya Nadella’s ability to penetrate the minds of audiences. What does artificial intelligence mean in every Microsoft product?. If two days ago he had already surprised Windows Surface with his innate ability for oratory and self-expression, then a few hours ago he announced a host of new features as if it were a digital tsunami.

If GPT-4o’s conversational mode surprised many at the OpenAI presentation last week, and Google used the word AI in every sentence spoken by its speakers at I/O 2024 a few days ago, Microsoft was not going to be left behind in the world’s adoption of artificial intelligence. extensive catalog of products offered at the business and consumer level.

Follow Google’s instructions for a new AI-powered experience with AI agents as if they were some kind of “minions”, or with an assistant that uses GPT-4o’s conversation skills and so on. help a player who is taking his first steps in a game like Minecraft leave behind the old guides and tricks on hundreds of websites.

AI co-pilot agents are one of the most exciting new features. Microsoft Build 2024. They are like “virtual employees” that businesses can use to perform the most repetitive and time-consuming tasks, from monitoring email or managing automated tasks to helping an employee through their first days with the company or entering data. .

Microsoft, aware of the reaction that its AI agents can cause among the general public, explained that this new feature of Copilot Studio won’t destroy jobs, only the “boring” parts; But the effect of this experience will be the disappearance of some data entry jobs.

Phi-3 AI, Edge, video translation and more

Another important innovation was a shortened version of the LLM for use it on mobile devices locally: Phi-3 AI. It is a smaller language model, compact enough for a mobile phone, and capable of analyzing images and reading text. In his blog, he shows that the importance of Phi-3 lies in the privacy and security it can provide by processing AI locally from the device without the need to connect to external servers to process it. The vision that Apple shares for its artificial intelligence or HONOR with Magic OS 8.0.

Two hours of Microsoft Build 2024 They have come a long way and have some amazing new features that are not only very useful for professional and business environments but also useful for the end user:

• Microsoft Edge now translates YouTube videos as you watch them– Real-time translation using artificial intelligence for platforms such as YouTube, LinkedIn, Reuters and Coursera. And yes, it already works from Spanish to English and vice versa.
• Volume Applications for Meta Quest: Microsoft has shown a 3D view of the Xbox controller from the perspective of Meta Quest 3. Developers can access the preview to create apps for the Meta headset.
• Custom emoji for Microsoft Teams– Video call administrators can choose which emoticons can be used and control who can add them.
• Great little 8-inch Snapdragon PC: Snapdragon mini PC dev kit It is unknown if anyone will be able to buy it.
• Windows Explorer with Git: Ideal for programmers to integrate Git into the file explorer file system so they can maintain a file’s state, enter messages, or enter its build number. And what’s important: it now supports 7-zip and TAR compression.

And finally, another important event at the level of Windows users, according to EdgeThis new advanced clipboard feature as part of PowerToys for Windows 11. It transforms the content of what has been copied exactly as the user wants. That is, by pressing the Windows key + Shift + V, you can choose between plain text, markdown, or JSON formatting.

And the best thing: You can use OpenAI artificial intelligence for other types of ability to modify or summarize text before pasting; similar to Logitech’s new feature for many of its keyboards and mice that allows you to invoke ChatGPT. This new feature is now available for use in Spain, the only thing you need to do is log in with the user used for OpenAI AIP at the developer level (this is not the same as a ChatGPT subscription).