Microsoft Copilot AI chatbot arrives on iPhone and iPad

Microsoft Copilot has launched on the App Store for iPhone and iPad with hints of an incoming Mac app, and it has all of its AI chat assistant features.

Microsoft Copilot is a chat assistant powered by OpenAI, GPT-4, and DALLE 3 previously only available from desktop Chrome browsers. It can complete requests generate images, or summarize text.

Do everything from drafting emails to updating a job resume. This is the full Copilot experience.

The image creator allows users to tap into DALLE and generate synthetic AI images. Use prompts to generate new styles and ideas, develop brand motifs, create custom backgrounds, or visualize video storyboards.

We asked it to describe AppleInsider:

"AppleInsider is a website that provides news, rumors, reviews, prices, and deals related to Apple products. The website has been serving Apple product enthusiasts since 1997. It covers a wide range of topics such as Apple's latest products, software updates, and industry news. The website also features a Price Guide that lists the best current low prices on Apple products. The website is a great resource for those who want to stay up-to-date with the latest Apple News and products."

The prompt was simple enough and it provided sources linked to our website. Generating an image requires an account.

The app is listed as iPhone and iPad only in the App Store, but the compatibility list includes the Mac. Users have to be running iOS 15 or iPadOS 15, and the Mac version requires an M1 processor and macOS Sonoma.

Get Microsoft Copilot from the App Store.

12 Comments

Alex_V 260 comments · 6 Years

About 10 months ago

Maybe this will contribute to the demise of Google and its appalling model of surveillance capitalism. I'm writing that more in hope than expectation, as Google isn't just search anymore, they have Android and YouTube, for example, and those ain’t going anywhere.

Nikon8 51 comments · 6 Years

Alex_V said:

Maybe this will contribute to the demise of Google and its appalling model of surveillance capitalism. I'm writing that more in hope than expectation, as Google isn't just search anymore, they have Android and YouTube, for example, and those ain’t going anywhere.

You want Microsoft to be even bigger monopoly? Besides Microsoft are doing the same thing. Tracking people on windows

AppleZulu 2174 comments · 8 Years

Ask it to write a specific copyrighted work in the style of that work’s actual author. It then produces the original work, mostly verbatim, with a few minor additions or changes that are so bad an editor would spot them and strike them from a mile away.

This demonstrates how generative AI is really an unsophisticated exercise in plagiarism. Its greatest power is in scraping and cataloging massive amounts of data, not in algorithms that learn and generate original work. It is not ‘almost sentient’ or ‘creative.’

Defenders of generative AI will claim that it’s no different from a person leaning from the work of his or her “influences” and then moving forward to create their own work, which is always influenced by prior artists.

The exercise I’ve described above demonstrates that this isn’t what the much-ballyhooed tech is doing. It is simply accumulating others’ work and creating entirely derivative mash-ups based on a set of instructions.

Successful plagiarism lawsuits against human plagiarists hinge on establishing that the defendant was exposed to the copied work(s) and that the defendant’s work is largely derivative and lacking in sufficient originality on the plagiarist’s part.

Despite the hype, generative AI lacks anything approaching the cognitive capacity to learn and then create original work. The pending lawsuits filed by artists whose works are being scraped and regurgitated should be successful, even based on current law.

Nikon8 said:

Alex_V said:

Maybe this will contribute to the demise of Google and its appalling model of surveillance capitalism. I'm writing that more in hope than expectation, as Google isn't just search anymore, they have Android and YouTube, for example, and those ain’t going anywhere.

You want Microsoft to be even bigger monopoly? Besides Microsoft are doing the same thing. Tracking people on windows

So? You want Google to be even bigger monopoly? Jeez…

Kierkegaarden 244 comments · 1 Year

“Do everything from drafting emails to updating a job resume. This is the full Copilot experience.”

Wow. I just never thought technology would advance so quickly where this was possible in 2023.