American multinational technology corporation, Microsoft, has announced the plan to introduce Copilot key on the PC keyboard, to enhance users’ productivity with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Based on the image posted by Microsoft, it is expected that the new Copilot key will replace the right Control key on the standard PC keyboard, where it will slot in between the Alt key and the left arrow key.
The company’s Executive Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Yusuf Mehdi, said the introduction of the Copilot key on the PC keyboard, will empower users to participate in the AI transformation more easily, which will enhance their work.
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In his words,
“The introduction of the Copilot key marks the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard in nearly three decades. We believe it will empower people to participate in the AI transformation more easily. The Copilot key joins the Windows key as a core part of the PC keyboard and when pressed, the new key will invoke the Copilot in the Windows experience to make it seamless to engage Copilot in your day-to-day.”
In regions where Copilot is not available, the Copilot key will launch Windows Search. The first keyboards with the new key will launch at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and will likely start shipping in late February.
About Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is a chatbot developed by Microsoft, which was launched as Bing Chat on February 7, 2023, as a built-in feature for Microsoft Bing and Microsoft Edge. The chatbot is based on a large language model (LLM). Over the course of 2023, Microsoft began to unify the Copilot branding across its various chatbot products.
Copilot utilizes the Microsoft Prometheus model, which was built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-4 foundational large language model, which in turn has been fine-tuned using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. Copilot’s conversational interface style resembles that of ChatGPT.
The chatbot enables users to work smarter, be more productive, boost creativity, and stay connected to the people and things that matter to them.
Also, it enables them to get helpful, summarized answers, turn their inspiration into something amazing, and help them in writing whenever they want.
Notably, Copilot can cite sources, create poems and songs, and use its Image Creator to generate images based on text prompts. It can also understand and communicate in numerous languages and dialects.
At its Build 2023 conference, Microsoft announced its plans to integrate Copilot into Windows 11, allowing users to access it directly through the taskbar.