Copilot<\/a>, Microsoft\u2019s family of AI-powered chatbots and assistants, is getting a few new upgrades timed with a flashy Superbowl LVIII ad campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a post<\/a> on the official Microsoft blog, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft\u2019s chief marketing officer, outlined what users can expect.<\/p>\n \u201cToday marks exactly one year since our entry into AI-powered experiences for people with Bing Chat<\/a>,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn that year, we\u2019ve learned so many new things, and seen the use of our Copilot experiences explode with over 5 billion chats and 5 billion images created to date \u2026 Now, with Copilot as our singular experience, for people looking to get more out of AI creation, we\u2019re introducing further \u2026 capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n The Copilot experience on the web, Android and iOS now features a more \u201cstreamlined look and feel,\u201d Mehdi said, with a cleaner style for answers and a carousel of suggested prompts to feed Copilot (e.g. \u201cHow would you explain AI to a sixth grader?\u201d).<\/p>\n Designer<\/a> in Copilot, meanwhile \u2014 a tool that taps GenAI models like OpenAI\u2019s DALL-E 3<\/a> to turn prompts into images \u2014 has new editing capabilities.<\/p>\n The upgraded Copilot experience on the web.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n All English-speaking Copilot users in the U.S., U.K., Australia, India and New Zealand can now edit images in-line in the flow of a chat, for example colorizing an object, blurring an image background or changing the style of the image (to pixel art, say). And subscribers to Copilot Pro, Microsoft\u2019s $20-per-month premium Copilot plan, can resize and regenerate images between \u201csquare\u201d (i.e. portrait) and landscape.<\/p>\n Coming soon to Copilot is Designer GPT, Mehdi said, which will offer a more \u201cimmersive, dedicated canvas\u201d inside Copilot where users can \u201cvisualize their ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n Designer caused quite a stir earlier this year when malicious users, mostly from the image board 4chan, used the tool to create pornographic deepfakes<\/a> of Taylor Swift \u2014 and spread them across X (formerly Twitter). Designer had guardrails designed to prevent inappropriate prompts, Microsoft claimed \u2014 but users found loopholes like misspelling names and describing images that didn\u2019t explicitly use sexual terms but generated the same result.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Last month, Microsoft said that it addressed the Designer loopholes by making it impossible to generate celebrity images. But, as with all GenAI tools, it\u2019s likely to be a never-ending cat and mouse game between bad actors and vendors.<\/p>\n \u201cMicrosoft\u2019s advancements in AI align with our company mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more,\u201d Mehdi continued. \u201cWith Copilot, we\u2019re democratizing our breakthroughs in AI to help make the promise of AI real for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n Mehdi didn\u2019t address the performance issues with Copilot Pro \u2014 a common complaint among early subscribers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copilot Pro is supposed\u00a0<\/em>to come with priority access to the underlying OpenAI models powering Copilot even during peak times, but users report dealing with exceptionally long generation times and other, potentially related bugs<\/a>. Windows Central speculates that the root of the problem is insufficient server capacity, but lacking official comment, it\u2019s impossible to know for certain.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Microsoft](\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Copilot_Carousel_Hero_1920x1280-2048x1365-1.webp\")
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