Microsoft Copilot Pro

I recently stumbled upon this announcement of the long awaited Copilot Pro. I need to prepare a PowerPoint presentation this week so any capacity to use this for free would be tremendous. Thanks y'all!

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[no solution for you, just a comment] - making slide presentations is such a waste of time that I actually think this is a great use case for AI-driven automation.
- That's because most people don't know how to make them. When your presenter is basically reading the slides to everyone and making a few comments, they're doing it wrong.
  No text slide should be on the screen for more than 4 seconds. (2-3 is better) And it must be fully readable in that time.
  Charts, graphs, and images can be up for as long as needed, but the only text should label specific parts.
  Don't use fancy transitions or pretty backgrounds for anything.
  Breaking the above rules is okay once or twice, if you have a very specific reason for that specific slide.
  
  I would like to add a few more tips, based in my experience in an academic background:
  Don't go back in the presentation to refer to something. If you want to refer to a slide/graphic you already explained, you put the slide/graphic once again, but do not go back several slides.
  Use big fonts. Text should be clearly readable in any part of the room you are presenting.
  References and sources should be put as a footnote in each slide, not as a big ass slide at the end of the presentation.
  Enumerate your slides.
  Time and flow quality is just as important -or maybe more- than the visual quality. It is a must to stay behind a 10% error margin of the alocated time. So in a 10 minutes presentation, always stay between 9 and 11 minutes (ideally between 9:30 and 10).
  
  Knowing or not how to make them, they're still barely useful. They convey less information than a written report, and nobody goes back to a slide deck for reference if given a choice between that and a PDF. When printed as handouts, they're a waste of paper. Their "need" basically comes down to graphic information, which could be in a boring report too.
- Then each executive's AI can just review the slides. Then the AIs can send a string of pointless emails back and forth to each other, come to a consensus and share the decision in an email blast to the whole company.
  Wait.. why do we need execs again?
- And that's why tools like gamma.app exist
I use Copilot fully integrated with Office 365 in my work, and was one of the beta testers back in November. Anecdotally, it’s no better than any other LLM, and I have found hallucinates significantly more than ChatGPT. The Office integration is useful and I do use it more than any other AI tool for its convenience being ‘inside’ of Excel / Outlook etc, but you aren’t missing much by not having it.
- My goodness bro, have you gotten it to go anything like the promo videos? Word always says "I'm still learning", Copilot Chat will hit and miss finding files and documents, and any links from a response involving web searches are replaced with the text "An external link was removed to protect your privacy." The Edge sidebar Copilot now has my company logo and can no longer "see" what I'm browsing. Before my user was licensed the Edge Copilot sidebar was different, the free version I suppose, and could do much more, just not browse my corporate files.
  Edit: For example; the Word demo video in this link under business can't be done. I have nearly this exact use case. I can get it to draft a proposal, with various results, based on a QuickBooks estimate, but the part where you then tell Copilot to modify the formatting isn't the same as the video, with a Copilot button in the same dialog window as the Keep It button. And when you then summon Copilot from the side bar, you can't even invoke the file reference action to make it change formatting and layout.
- I'm convinced it'll be like power automate, that can't even automate the most basic of tasks outside of really super specific tasks buried deep within their software.
  If Microsoft is good at anything, it's mediocrity.
You also might not need CoPilot. You can just ask GPT yo produce an airline for the presentation, ith the information you provide, You could even ask it to leave placeholders for images.
It won't be an award winning presentation, but if you don't care too much, GPT mass pretty average presentations.
Think it's restricted to O365 Enterprise & Education customers (in certain regions) for the moment, don't think it'd be possible to get it for free, at least for now
Just use regular chatgpt. It's the same thing without the Microsoft integration...
- Yeah, I know, but that wasn't my question actually I specifically asked for the Microsoft integration
- Is there a way to fiddle with one of these things without a login?
  
  You can do so on Bing but just 4 prompts per conversation

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