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From Clipipy to Copilot: how Microsoft has been refining his AI for 40 years

Far from being a newcomer in AI, Microsoft has gone through the last four decades to try to improve everyday life. Tech & Co was able to talk to Eric Boyd, head of the AI platform within the company, about this success “that was not during the night.”

Microsoft and AI, it is a story for a long time. He even took his roots more than 40 years ago. There are many who see this relationship due to the only prism of Co -Philot, the tool with artificial intelligence house and that they think that the company of the fifties arrived there late, in the footsteps of another OpenAi, Mistral or Google with Gemini.

But, to see our uses more closely, a long time has passed since artificial intelligence has been instilled in the company’s computer tools, in Windows, video games, software, devices, etc.

“Already in the 1980s and 1990s, we made important advances in AI. Microsoft has been rather at the forefront for years,” insists the one that arrived more than 15 years ago to work initially within the Bing ADS team, in charge of the search engine.

“What many ignore is that a search engine is impossible to do without ia. Everything is based on AI, from the classification of the research results to the relevance of the ads that appear,” he explains. “A large part of the bases placed by Microsoft in terms of today comes from our work in Bing.”

From Clipipy to Co -Coilot, UPS and Downs

Vision models, voice recognition, architectural bases … Many things have accelerated with the creation of Microsoft Research for more than 25 years, which was based on previous investigations. “The world has opened to the appearance of these new models a few years ago. They all said:” Wow, it is an instant success. “But it took decades to build it,” he recalls.

Pursuing AI and promoting its advances, therefore, seems “completely natural” on the side of Microsoft. The AI found its roots in the 1960s, the Redmond company was created in 1975 and kissed the idea of constantly innovating technologically since its birth. If the search engines, in Microsoft and Google, were “balancing points”, the most visual and functional introduction of AI within brand services, no doubt, dates back to … clipippy. The trombone -shaped assistant who wanted to help him once under Windows.

In Microsoft, the need for AI would be almost a philosophy at the end. Many advances that have arisen are born from internal needs, to facilitate work, accessibility, make more productive or even recognize AI to play as with Kinect at that time. “We always strive to help others to succeed and be more productive. IA is perfectly part of this approach, because it is an exceptional productivity tool,” summarizes the interested party. “It is our vision to allow everyone, in their career, their work, their personal life to improve and do their tasks better.”

This is also what the co -pilot symbolizes, present everywhere and for everything. “You are in charge,” proclaims Eric Boyd. “You are the pilot and it is your co -piloto to understand everything, find answers more quickly, work more effectively. This is what we point out.” And integrating AI in all products transparently has also found support with the addition of voice recognition.

“Many things have become natural, without thinking,” says Eric Boyd. “It seems to us to use the voice to send an SMS talking to your phone and that is transcribed in writing. But it is the fruit of a refined AI over the years and discreet. And we see that it develops and progresses in all products.”

OpenAi union to change the dimension

Microsoft, Microsoft, still went to look for Openai’s support. By investing more than $ 10 billion (around 9 billion euros) at the Sam Altman firm and its chatgpt model. A turning point for Microsoft and its approach, which was an impulse, not without a few chief diatribes when Operai wanted to join with others.

“We brought the business spinning in an unprecedented way,” admits Eric Boyd, who explains that Satya Nadella, the business owner, was impressed at that time by the OpenAI GPT models.

“We have a common vision with Openai about LLM’s potential,” he summarizes. A joint commitment also builds a supercomputer (the largest fourth at that time) and a very large language model that “exceeded everything). An association in the form mainly of a strategic turn based on complementarity too. Could Microsoft have done everything alone? Without a doubt, but not so effective or fast or fast.

The fact is that the AI on the side of Seattle does not want to be perceived as “an announcement effect” to be in tune with the times. Microsoft wants to apply the same requirements as for any software or hardware creation in the heart of the campus: security, fulfillment of privacy and compliance with regulations. A responsible AI that we try to get rid of their potential biases, because user trust remains essential to progress. “AI is a double -edged tool,” admits Eric Boyd. “But it also serves to detect and counteract cyber attacks. We use Ai … to defend ourselves against AI.”

Transform everyday life making us forget the evolution to become a natural gesture: this is how we perceive the attraction and interest of AI in Microsoft. An AI that, however, remains unpredictable in its possible progress and its future.

“We are going to go from this world where I hope to chat with a model to a world where I want you to do a job for me,” predicts Eric Boyd. But the search for a perfect AI is not on the agenda. “We want to create tools that can do incredibly useful things and focus on how it will drive us to the future,” he concludes. In any case, a more productive future with more help than ever, but “fading daily.”

Author: Melinda Davan-Souls
Source: BFM TV

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