161 | 👩‍✈️ ✈️Microsoft Copilot Pro Drops

In today’s Brainyacts:

1. What are AI agents again? Bonus resource!

2. My first few minutes test-driving Copilot Pro

3. But for Microsoft, not much AI model news today

4. Paying Elon in Tesla stock to make more AI and other related content

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Lead Memo

🔎 🚫 What are AI agents again?

Generative AI agents are specific applications of generative AI technology, designed to perform tasks or roles that typically require human intelligence. These agents are not just tools that create content; they're more like active participants or 'agents' in a process, making decisions or taking actions based on the data they've been trained on.

In a business context, an agent could be a chatbot that not only responds to customer inquiries but also learns from interactions to improve its responses over time. Or, it might be a system that analyzes market data and autonomously makes stock trading decisions.

The key aspect that sets these agents apart is their ability to act autonomously within a certain scope, based on their programming and learning. They're not just reacting to direct inputs (like a search engine does when you type in a query), but are actively engaging in a task, often with the goal of optimizing or improving a process or outcome.

In practical terms, for professionals, this means that generative AI agents can take on complex, iterative tasks, learn from the outcomes, and refine their approach – effectively becoming more skilled and valuable over time, much like a human colleague who grows and develops with experience. Oh and they can become more autonomous too. Not fully but some agents are quite adept at handling multi-step processes.

Want to try some?

Here is a huge list of some you can try out. Here is the link.

Spotlight

👩‍✈️ ✈️Microsoft Copilot Pro Drops

Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us

• You get Open AI's GPT-4 Turbo and Dalle3 with dual guidance and landscape mode.

• It doesn't have the 30-turn limit, enables creating Copilot GPTs (think OpenAI’s GPT store/custom GPTs, and is twice as fast as regular Copilot.

• Copilot Pro will be a consumer plan, coming in at $20 per user per month, offering AI features across various Microsoft 365 apps—including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote—but separate from a Microsoft 365 subscription.

• It is $30 per user for Business 365 subscribers.

• The service also includes 100 daily "boosts" in Designer for enhanced AI-powered image creation and priority access to the latest AI models, with a Copilot GPT builder already in the pipeline.

• In the first half of 2024, Copilot will expand to Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Here is a short 7-minute video of my first few minutes with both PowerPoint and Outlook. This is a basic intro. More to come.

AI Model Notables

► How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

► Google Cloud rolls out new GenAI products for retailers

News You Can Use:

➭ Thomson Reuters in talks with AI firms over licensing deals

➭ Brooklyn-Based State Appeals Court launches AI task force

➭ Lawmakers unveil ‘No AI FRAUD’ Act to curb deep fakes

➭ ‘Jobs may disappear’: Nearly 40% of global employment could be disrupted by AI, IMF says

➭ Elon Musk wants more control of Tesla and seeks 25% voting power to compensate him for building new products like AI

➭ Toyota's robots are learning to do housework—by copying humans

➭ AI Tube - A YouTube-like site "AI Tube" where only AI-generated videos are uploaded

Who is the author, Josh Kubicki?

Some of you know me. Others do not. Here is a short intro. I am a lawyer, entrepreneur, and teacher. I have transformed legal practices and built multi-million dollar businesses. Not a theorist, I am an applied researcher and former Chief Strategy Officer, recognized by Fast Company and Bloomberg Law for my unique work. Through this newsletter, I offer you pragmatic insights into leveraging AI to inform and improve your daily life in legal services.