On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a bunch of new features for its Copilot generative AI service that are either available now or are being test-flighted now with a full launch scheduled for 2024. However, one new feature that"s being flighted right now was not included in that Microsoft info dump.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft’s CEO of Advertising and Web Services posted up a look at what he called the new Notebook interface for Copilot, inside the Bing.com search site.
One more thing: we are also starting to flight the Notebook interface. Keep changing the prompt on the left, get results on the right. Easier to copy and work on the prompt. It also remembers the previous version, so you can ask to change something. pic.twitter.com/WkfIE4bQmN
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) December 5, 2023
The UI lets people type in a text prompt on the left side and see results on the right side. Parakhin stated that this makes it "easier to copy and work on the prompt" in Copilot. He added that this new Notebook feature "also remembers the previous version, so you can ask to change something."
Jorbi Ribas, the head of engineering for Bing at Microsoft, posted his own X post on the Copilot Notebook UI. He stated:
This interface removes dialogue so you can focus on prompt creation, refinement, and iterating on output as it remembers the previous version. It also accepts longer prompts up to 18K characters.
There"s no word on when this new Notebook UI will become available for all Copilot users.
Microsoft"s plans for Copilot in 2024 include adding support for OpenAI"s latest large language model, ChatGPT-4 Turbo, along with a new Code Interpreter feature in the near future for people who want Copilot to create Python code for answers to questions.