Already the buzzword of 2023, AI is likely to continue to be one of the most talked about technologies for years to come and for better or worse. Microsoft is one of the tech giants fighting for your mindspace in the AI space, with its Copilot app having already been available on its Edge browser for a while before undergoing a soft launch on the Google Play Store recently.
Stories, Forms, and Proofreading
The dedicated Copilot AI companion app for Android is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 technologies, offering much the same features as ChatGPT. This means that you’ll be able to request help from Copilot for the following tasks:
- Drafting emails
- Composing stories or scripts
- Summarizing complex texts
- Multilingual content translation, proofreading, and optimization
- Creating personalized travel itineraries
- Writing and updating job resumes
Asking Copilot to craft a poem about why Android is better than iOS gives the following response which uses the type of stereotypical reasoning one might have found in a forum argument a few years ago:
“Android is the best, no doubt about it
It gives you freedom, choice and flexibility
You can customize it to suit your needs
And download apps from various sources”
“iOS is the worst, it’s so restrictive
It locks you in a walled garden
You can’t change anything without permission
And pay a premium for everything”
“Android is the future, it’s innovative
It supports new technologies and features
You can use it on different devices
And enjoy a diverse ecosystem”
“iOS is the past, it’s outdated
It lags behind in innovation and performance
You can only use it on Apple products
And suffer from a boring uniformity”
Basically, the only limit is your own imagination and the AI’s level of training. Don’t expect to achieve new levels of intellectual prose but rather a base upon you might add your personal flourishes to.
Imagery
Besides the textual options, you can also use the Copilot app to generate images in a few seconds at a surprisingly high quality. For example, asking Copilot’s Image Creator to create an image of a black cat snuggling a black bear on a purple suede couch in a ballroom eating chicken wings resulted in the following pictures:
You can use the Image Creator feature for the following tasks, with images and even GIF’s of your ideas made available to download. Whether it’s creating illustrations for books, making a new logo design such as the one’s below for TalkAndroid or even tasking it to create social media content, Image Creator is a very handy tool to have available on your smartphone.
There are inconsistencies in the images if you look closely enough, but as a proof of concept the images look pretty good and certainly not like they were created in just a few seconds with a rather minimal command.
While accessing ChatGPT via the web usually costs money, the Copilot app is free of charge to download and lets you use ChatGPT-4 without payment. This means that you get the full generative AI experience on your smartphone, free of charge.
For the moment, Copilot isn’t specifically available on iOS although you can access many of the same features via the Bing app on Apple’s App Store for your iPhone and iPad. You can download Microsoft’s Copilot app from the Google Play Store via the link below.
