Microsoft introduces Copilot AI chatbot for finance workers in Excel and Outlook
Summary
Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president for business applications and platforms at Microsoft, speaks at a press event in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2024. Many business software providers, including HubSpot and Salesforce , have been working to supercharge existing products with generative artificial intelligence, in the hope of making clients more efficient. The craze began after startup OpenAI in 2022 launched the ChatGPT chatbot, which can spit out natural-sounding text or other content with a few words of human input. "We want every one of the departments to be enabled and enriched with a Copilot," Charles Lamanna, a Microsoft corporate vice president, said in an interview with CNBC in San Francisco on Wednesday. WATCH: AI offers incredibly powerful tools for banking, financial services and insurance industry: Microsoft CVP