Introduction
What are some of the basic Co-Pilot AI terminology?
Instructions
Core Copilot Terms
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Copilot: An AI assistant designed to augment human capability by helping with tasks, providing insights, and boosting productivity. It is a collaborator, not a replacement, for the human user.
- Prompt: The text, audio, image, or other input you send to the copilot to ask a question or give a command.
- Response: The output that the copilot generates in response to your prompt.
- Creations: Original content or works of art created by the copilot in response to a prompt.
- Your Content: The prompts and responses that are part of your conversations with the copilot.
- Actions: Automated tasks a copilot performs on the user's behalf.
- Embedded copilot: A copilot integrated directly into a software product, like Microsoft 365, to aid in using that specific product.
Related AI and technology terms
- AI Agents: Specialized AI tools built to handle specific processes or solve business challenges. A copilot can act as the user-facing interface for these agents, explains Microsoft.
- Foundation Models: Large AI models trained on vast datasets, which form the basis for many copilots.
- Generative AI: A type of AI that can create new content, such as text, code, or images, in response to prompts.
- Large Language Models (LLMs): A specific type of generative AI model trained on massive amounts of text data.
- Responsible AI (RAI): A set of norms and standards for the safe and secure use of AI, which Microsoft uses to guide its copilot development.