First week of Microsoft 365 Copilot

In my mind, this year so far is in 6th gear! In March ChatGPT was the fastest growing “thing” ever, then just a few months later Microsoft acquired the company behind it (OpenAI) and at the beginning of this month (November 2023) Microsoft released its flagship AI solution Microsoft 365 Copilot. What do we know about this Copilot, and are people using it to their benefit?

Dawn of the copilots – Bing.com/create (Dall-E3)

It’s a total miss this week with the image. But I did want to share it, as I have experienced a couple of big hallucinations lately that didn’t fit at all, more on that later.

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Generative AI and the Azure blob storage (part 3)

This article is a continuation of my series of articles on how to be sure to protect your data, and leverage the generative AI capabilities. This article focuses on the Azure blob storage component. Oh, we now have DALL E3 using Bing, so expect some better (cooler) images from now on!

A 60s movie poster for "The blob attacks the Project Management Office"
generative AI. Dall e3
Do you see that? The text is even 90% correct! that’s amazing. This was the prompt: A 60s movie poster for “The blob attacks the Project Management Office”
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Generative AI, PMOs and protecting your data (part 1)

Hi there! Welcome to this almost weekly post on AI and the PMO. Almost, because frequent visitors might have missed last week’s post. As you might know, I’m moving to the other part of the country, so there are some personal matters to consider.

Generative AI created image of A construction project on paper, rising out to become the actual building mid image
A construction project on paper, rising out to become the actual building mid image – Bing.com/create
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Generative AI and the Project Management Office: A Look at Microsoft’s Role and ChatGPT Innovations

Hi there, I’m back from a nice vacation. Let’s jump in straight away with what Project Managers and the PMO can expect to get out of (Generative) Artificial Intelligence (AI). I hope you are enjoying the serries so far, with already over 10 articles in total.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) created image of PM getting back from vacation.
Artistic impression of a project manager coming back to work after a long vacation in France
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Microsoft Inspire starts today, surprise: AI is a key contributor

Make sure you register for the event. It starts in only a couple of hours. You do not want to miss this one, because it’s going to focus heavy on everything AI. For me? I’m focussing my attention on the Copilot announcements. I think they will be a real game changer the next couple of months/years.

Welcome to yet another weekly update on what Generative AI and it’s many incarnations can do for us as Project Management professionals.

Generative AI created image for Microsoft Inspire.
The prompt on Bing.com/create: “Microsoft embodied as a friendly artificial intelligence (not a robot) at a conference, pencil drawing, minimalistic”.
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