MICROSOFT 🔥: A new Copilot app with Home, Code and Copilot modes has been introduced!
> “Today we’re introducing the new Copilot to connect the tools people rely on with the next generation of capabilities they’ll need to build, customize and scale AI across work.”
> Home contains Chat and Cowork options for day-to-day work. Office Copilot is included.
> Code is powered by the same underlying tech as GitHub Copilot. A new Microsoft Managed Copilot Runtime for code execution has been added too.
> Autopilot is a rebranded Scout Agent, Microsoft’s proactive AI assistant.
* “It’s rolling out now through the Frontier program”
Frontier testing time 👀
It is extremely clear at this point in AI development that, regardless of risk or revenue or any of the other stuff discussed on X all the time, things are just going to keep getting weirder.
Just super, super weird.
All of this effort from the AI labs pouring into proofs, but there are so many other interesting problems in other fields
For example, this historian used AI to make progress on the cyphers of John Dee & the intellectual antecedents that Darwin drew from.
Hermes desktop users now can watch bot’s screens while they work and take the control over when needed.
“Watching how someone else works is one of the most joyful states for a human being”
I need to teach them “testing” 👀
2. In 1977, Rolling Stone published a piece by Carl Bernstein showing that more than 400 journalists at Reuters, NBC, ABC, CBS, Time, NYT & other outlets carried out assignments for the CIA.
His source? Documents on file inside CIA headquarters.