Microsoft announced yesterday that the keyboards on upcoming personal computers running Windows will feature a CoPilot button for conducting text conversations with the software maker’s virtual assistant, according to CNBC.
Microsoft’s CoPilot assistant was introduced on both the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems. Later this month, hardware manufacturers will release computers equipped with keyboards featuring the new assistant key.
This new feature is considered one of the significant additions to the Windows keyboard since the inclusion of the “Start” button in the famous keyboard in 1994.
CoPilot’s program on the Windows operating system benefits from artificial intelligence models from the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI. OpenAI manages its popular chat program, GPT Chat, allowing CoPilot to generate human-like text responses to written inputs. People can ask it to write emails, answer questions, create images, and operate computer features.
Companies subscribing to Microsoft 365 for CoPilot can receive highlights of Teams conversations and get assistance in document writing using Word.
Microsoft initially introduced the CoPilot program on computers running the Windows 10 – the world’s most common operating system – and the Windows 11 operating system, but indirectly through pressing the Windows key continuously and pressing the C key to summon CoPilot. Now, the keyboard receives a dedicated key for the CoPilot feature.
Although the Windows operating system is no longer as dominant as it used to be, Microsoft still derives about 10% of its revenue from the operating system. Therefore, it will spare no effort to support personal computers to increase revenues for companies like Dell and HP, which seek to sell alternatives to personal computers purchased by consumers, students, and workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The technology industry has agreed on a term called AI chip, which often refers to the presence of specific chip components inside devices to run models.
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