Hands on: Copilot for Teams review
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This comment first appeared in Issue 355 PC Pro.Long before the arrival of the co-pilot Microsoft Team Become the app of choice that is always active on my desktop. This is the central tool I use to keep up to date on organizational activities, where I plan daily tasks, share content, hold meetings and plan long-term goals. Now Microsoft With the addition of co-pilot, it becomes even more essential.This is most obvious in the meeting. The responsibility for capturing important meeting details is often dependent on one person, a task that is rarely enviable and often challenging. Even if transcription is enabled on the team, filtering conversations to find relevant information is daunting. This is the area where Copilot performs well, and it is easy to summarize discussions and propose action points.I also found it useful Meetingespecially long meetings that procrastinate as your attention lingers. If I separate briefly, or need to leave for any reason, Copilot can provide a summary at any juncture. If you are late or are not attending the meeting at all, it is a huge boon to be able to ask Copilot for a summary of the meeting, including key action points and follow-up tasks. Just like it reexamines the ability to discuss and extract insights.This is not just a theory. Over the past six months, I have asked Copilot to identify employee disagreements, discuss specific risks, verify project schedules and summarize important decisions through pros and cons. Save time by reducing the need to consult busy colleagues AI: It simplifies communication and improves my efficiency.Copilot also contains some other useful features. The manager may like (maybe too much) it illuminates the most important and least active participants by generating metrics to analyze the ability to attend meetings to show the percentage of words each colleague said. Smart Conference Review is an excellent feature in Teams Premium. It is similar to Copilot’s meeting notes and retains information for 30 days. The “Focus Meeting” feature in Teams Premium allows users to capture meetings, ask questions to make the event happen and even analyze emotions, although this can produce different results and is creepy.Copilot on the team can save you time too. It skillfully converts meeting notes to Office 365 documents and presents emails from discussions. It uses Microsoft Graph to effectively link and track links and track communications for documents, meetings and chats about specific topics. This is great if your memory isn’t too good, so this is my favorite feature. But, as Microsoft says, “the side effect is the assistant, not the replacement of human supervision.” It is crucial that you review the output of Vice-Signy, especially when it comes to major decisions, to ensure accuracy and relevance. Therefore, despite Copilot’s increased efficiency, there is a risk that users can rely too much on the tool, which can lead to a decline in critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.Finally, in the organization Cybersecurity Most importantly, the output generated by Copilot does not automatically carry the security classification of the original file. This poses significant risks when processing sensitive information. So it will be the employee’s responsibility to carefully examine what the AI generates to confirm that the data is correctly classified and to assess potential risks.Misreferencing some kind of masked superhero with huge AI power has huge responsibility to check its results.We list the best Microsoft Teams alternatives.
