The Future of Copilot

So, all this stuff is continuing to develop. Microsoft's YouTube channel—definitely, they keep talking about various features as they're rolling these things out. So, if you want to kind of keep up with new things that they're putting out there…

I have some links here to various things. For example, one of the things that's coming soon that they've said is prioritizing your inbox using Copilot, where Copilot will try to figure out what are the most important messages and bring them to the top.

That is not out there yet, but Microsoft made a YouTube video. And they also have a link to their website here where they have a blog. They talk about this as Wave 2. So, Wave 2 started a while ago, where they're starting to implement more things.

For example, they added Python to Excel. They created the new Pages. They have these new AI Agents, which are kind of the same thing as ChatGPT's custom GPTs.

But you can read more about that here. Some of these things, like Pages, are available. Other things like the Agents seem like they're now becoming available, but they kind of do a rollout.

So, whenever you see these features, if Microsoft says they're widely available, that might mean you may or may not have them. Widely just might mean that most people are getting them. They tend to roll these out over waves—some people get them, then other people get them.

They don't give them to everybody on day one because I think they don't want to overload their servers. So, some of these things take a little time for you to get. I have not seen the Prioritize My Inbox feature yet, so that's supposed to be coming.

But you can stay up-to-date on the Microsoft YouTube channel. They have a dedicated Copilot blog. So, if you like reading blog posts—which you could also have summarized with Copilot if you don't want to read the whole article…

You know, a six-minute read—you’re like, nah, just have Copilot summarize it. But this is dedicated to all these articles that are just on Microsoft Copilot. They have this Work Lab here where it talks more about AI in general.

So, if you're kind of more interested in AI as a general industry, you can check out their Work Lab and Microsoft AI at Work. Leave it to Microsoft to have like three different types of blogs focused on different things.

But this is also kind of more AI-for-work-specific stuff. And different articles about things, podcasts. So, if you want to read more, learn more…

You know, I linked out to all the Microsoft stuff because they actually have a lot of content on their website. But you might not necessarily find it right away because they have a lot of websites with a lot of information. So, while we have a lot of Microsoft content, they're considering both Chats You Can See and Copilot.

Yes. So, I think that ultimately it depends on what you do as to whether you need both. I'd say most people probably don't need both.

But maybe in the beginning, until you get more practice with each to see which one works better for your needs. Like, do you need the different models from ChatGPT? Or is the general Copilot model fine? And the general Copilot model is ChatGPT's 4.0. You know, is 4.0 good enough? Well, you wouldn't know unless you try out the various different models to see whether they provide better results. If you're using a lot of Microsoft products, and you're working in those apps, when would you be using ChatGPT? Like, when would you go over there to use that? If everybody's using it with Microsoft products in the Microsoft apps, why would we separately need ChatGPT? Right? It's not integrating with those apps. It is a separate thing.

The reason to do that would be to access those different models because maybe they're providing better writing, for example. But I would say for most people, you probably don't need both. It's more one versus the other.

I'm not saying that you couldn't potentially need both. It depends. Like, if you do both Microsoft-related work—like, for example, if you were a Coder—I would say that you could definitely need both Copilots.

You could need the Microsoft Copilot and the GitHub Copilot. But in a case like that, I probably wouldn't need ChatGPT. Right? So I might need both Copilots.

So yeah, I would say that I could see somebody just going with ChatGPT if they don't need the Microsoft integrations. But I think it's more of one versus the other for most people. I don't think most people would need both.

But you might want to have both initially to test them out, see what their capabilities are, see the quality of writing, for example, and see how those work to decide which one you prefer to use. Because if one—let’s say the reasoning models that ChatGPT has, which supposedly are coming to Copilot eventually—let’s say you're using those a lot to do more advanced reasoning, that might be a reason to use ChatGPT. Or you could just wait until it comes to Copilot because supposedly those are going to come to Copilot eventually.

But I think for most people, it would be one versus the other. Because otherwise you're paying like $30 a month for the organizational Copilot, $20 a month for ChatGPT. Or if you're doing an organization subscription there, it's $25 or $30 depending.

So it's a lot per month if you need both. Most people, I don't think, need both. Yeah, you could give a few people ChatGPT if they wanted to.

Sure. Yeah.