AI Companions: Transforming User Interaction and Experience

AI companions are transforming technology into personal, fluent interactions that enhance daily tasks and support users.

### The Evolution of AI: From Tools to Trusted Companions
* 🤖 Technology is rapidly transforming from **simple tools** to **interactive companions** that can assist users throughout their daily tasks.
* 🗣 The new co-pilot voice technology allows for a **more personal and fluent interaction**, enabling users to **communicate naturally without waiting for responses** like in older systems.
* 🎉 This AI companion can adapt to the user's emotions, providing support for various situations, whether it's **coaching through nerves before a presentation** or **generating ideas for a birthday party**.
* 📈 Usage statistics indicate that millions are engaging with these AI tools daily, suggesting that advancements in **voice and vision** will elevate AI from a **novelty to a mainstream necessity**.
* 📱 The integration of AI into popular platforms, including Apple and WhatsApp, highlights its **convenience and accessibility** for users.
* 💻 The introduction of co-pilot plus PCs enhances user experience, allowing for **intuitive searches** and **high-resolution photo management**, showcasing the **power of advanced AI**.
* 🌟 With leadership from CEO Mustafa Selim, Microsoft is focusing on **consumer engagement**, ensuring that AI products evolve to **meet the interactive needs of users** rather than just performing calculations.
* 🔍 "It's really how do you **engage with a consumer**, with an AI where you can **bring them out**, you can **prompt with questions**, you can **guide**."

How do you not freak people out with how good it is? Yeah, absolutely. I think that's one of the interesting things about technology now is how we shape it. It's changing quite a bit from something that was just sort of ones and zeros and answers to now an ongoing conversation with co-pilot. You're a companion where it can help you and support you throughout your entire day, across almost anything that you're working on. Okay. So the enhancements from a vision, from a voice perspective. Am I going to feel like I'm talking to an agent? Am I going to be able to outsource my day? Yeah, I think we're really moving from what I think of as an AI tool to an AI companion and a companion in the sense that you trust it, you feel it's more personal. And when you speak to it with the new co-pilot voice that we're announcing today, it's so fast. It's very fluent.

You can interrupt it. This is not like the old Hey, Alexa. Hey, Siri. And you have to wait. This is literally you talk to it, and it will have a sense of warmth and a sense of your energy and personality. So, it'll match that to you. So, if you're nervous about a big trip or about a presentation, it'll coach you through. If you're excited about, you know, a kid's birthday party, but you need some ideas, that'll help you. So, that kind of voice and that fluency will really change how you use A.I. Are more people actually using the tools you're building them? Yeah, we've seen a lot. So, we've seen, you know, millions and millions of people now every day slowly using it for more examples, for more questions. And that's exactly what goes into how we build the product. But I think this what we're announcing today with voice and vision is going to

be that unlock that's going to make it a novelty to something that's mainstream that we use every day. But I'm kind of being promised an unlock everywhere, whether I'm going to just easily integrate it into my Apple iPhone, whether I can just go to WhatsApp and easily use Metro AI, whether I'm looking at a whole new app and having to download a catchy beat and use it, why use your version? What is it like in terms of competing for consumer time? Yeah, no, it's a great point and our time is so busy. I think the difference will be in what's getting announced today is first off, you have an air model that's so much faster and it really, as I said, it understands you and it connects with you in a more human way. The second thing, the voice, the convenience of it, it's one thing to say, Hey, we all learned Spanish in high

school. We're kind of proficient, but we're not fluent. This is fluent where you can think and it can act for you. If you give it some points and tips. And that will really change, I think, the use case for it. But why your version rather than open air, which is sort of the underpinning of the technological advancements you're making. Yeah. I mean, there are many great offerings out there. What makes our as unique as we tune it a little bit so that it as I said, it's going to be much more personal, much more convenient. We also weave it into all the software you use. So whether it's Outlook and in particular on Windows, we announced a new class of PC, as we call it, co-pilot plus PCs, where it's the most advanced air on it. So you can do things like now search your PC with common language, which seems like you would assign people

buying those PCs because of the icon packs. They are. They're bonded because they're the fastest PCs out there. Now, we took the high ground back from a MacBook and because of the most advanced air. And what can you do with that air? Your photos can now go to high res. You can search for anything on your device. You can recall anything you've ever seen on the device, which is a tough thing. And a new feature we call a click to do. If you see something like even on a YouTube video, you can click and say, Tell me more about that. Maybe I want to buy that. These are really powerful features you just mentioned. And she spoke to Mustafa Selim and relatively new at your organization CEO. How is that changing the way in which Microsoft presents to the consumer? Yeah, one of the great things about Mustafa is he really has this sort of deep history, obviously with incredible

expertise, but also the consumer ethos. And so he's helping, you know, change the company in terms of how we shape how we build products, even so that you really it's kind of an interactive way that you work. Products are not like products we used to build in the past that were like ones and zeros. Calculate this number. It's really how do you engage with a consumer, with an AI where you can bring them out, you can prompt with questions, you can guide, and we have to learn on that. He's bringing that great expertise to the company.

Microsoft Adds Features to Consumer AI Assistant

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AI technology is shifting from being a simple tool to a personal companion, offering support throughout the day.

The new co-pilot voice is fast, fluent, and able to match the user's energy and personality, providing a more personalized experience.

With millions of daily users, the ongoing enhancements in voice and vision are expected to further change the way people interact with AI.

Metro AI aims to differentiate itself with a faster, more human-like air model that understands and connects with users.

The AI's fluent communication and ability to act on user prompts are expected to change its use case significantly.

By integrating into common software and offering co-pilot plus PCs, Metro AI provides a more personal and convenient experience for users.

Microsoft's Game-Changing PCs and Features

Microsoft's PCs are gaining popularity due to their speed and advanced features, including high-resolution photo capabilities and device-wide search.

The new "click to do" feature allows users to easily explore and purchase items they see online.

CEO Mustafa Selim's leadership is driving a significant change in Microsoft's consumer presentation.

Transforming Product Development with Consumer Engagement

The company is changing its approach to product development by focusing on consumer engagement and interaction.

With the help of AI, products are now designed to prompt questions and guide consumers, rather than just delivering static outputs.

The expert's knowledge is instrumental in shaping this new, interactive way of building products.