John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2025. — 323 p. — (For Dummies). — 

Straightforward guidance on the AI tool that's built into Windows, Microsoft 365, and more.
 

Microsoft is enhancing all its most widely used productivity software—including Windows and apps like Word and Excel—with the power of AI. And now you can learn to make the most of this revolutionary new tool with Microsoft Copilot For Dummies! You'll discover how to write Copilot-friendly prompts, enhance output with integrated Copilot tools, and how to apply Copilot functions to project management and other specific tasks and disciplines.
 

Since the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots that can generate convincing natural language and images, the race has been on to find new ways to reliably and responsibly harness this power to enhance personal and business productivity.
 

Words and ideas such as Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that were once confined to the world of AI researchers have flooded into mainstream news and culture. Other new words, such as hallucination and deepfake have been created or adopted to describe the output of GenAI systems.
 

AI chatbots are now widely available and widely used, and seemingly every software company is racing to introduce AI components into their products. Perhaps no company has been more aggressive exploring and pushing the limits of what can be done by integrating AI into its products than Microsoft.
 

Microsoft was instrumental in creating OpenAI’s breakthrough GPT-3 LLM and then in launching the GitHub Copilot software coding assistant. Now that Microsoft Copilot is available and has been integrated into Microsoft’s suite of business and productivity tools, AI is poised to do for everyday office work what GitHub Copilot is doing for coding. It has the potential to make any work involving a computer easier and faster. It could also lead to a lot more bad art and bad writing. It remains to be seen whether the

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