A couple of evenings back, I was working on my computer when I noticed the Microsoft “Copilot” icon in the taskbar. It wasn’t the first time I saw it. Microsoft added it to Windows 11 a while back, but I’d never done anything with it.
Unless you’ve been living under a bridge for the past couple of years, you’ve probably heard something about artificial intelligence, or AI for short. Copilot is Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot. The idea behind a generative AI chatbot is that you can ask it questions or make requests by typing in a window. The question or request is called a prompt.
For example, you can ask Copilot to make an image of a sunset just by typing in a prompt that reads “Generate a picture of a sunset.” You can be more specific, too, by adding further detail to your prompt such as “Generate a picture of a sunset with silhouettes of trees in the foreground.”
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