{"id":93662,"date":"2024-11-21T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93662"},"modified":"2024-11-21T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:42:28","slug":"reflections-on-introducing-copilot-actions-new-agents-and-tools-to-empower-it-teams-spataro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/11\/21\/reflections-on-introducing-copilot-actions-new-agents-and-tools-to-empower-it-teams-spataro\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Introducing Copilot Actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT teams&#8221; [Spataro]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2024\/11\/19\/introducing-copilot-actions-new-agents-and-tools-to-empower-it-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introducing Copilot Actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT teams<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from microsoft.com by Jared Spataro<\/p>\n<p>[On November 19th] at <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AArug1x\"><strong>Microsoft Ignite 2024<\/strong><\/a>, we\u2019re accelerating our ambition to empower every employee with Copilot as a personal assistant and to transform every business process with agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio.<\/p>\n<p>Announcements include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2024\/11\/19\/introducing-copilot-actions-new-agents-and-tools-to-empower-it-teams\/#empowering-every-employee\">Copilot Actions<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Microsoft 365 Copilot to help you automate everyday repetitive tasks.<\/li>\n<li>New\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2024\/11\/19\/introducing-copilot-actions-new-agents-and-tools-to-empower-it-teams\/#agents\">agents in Microsoft 365<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to unlock SharePoint knowledge, provide real-time language interpretation in Microsoft Teams meetings, and automate employee self-service.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2024\/11\/19\/introducing-copilot-actions-new-agents-and-tools-to-empower-it-teams\/#equipping-it\">Copilot Control System<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to help IT professionals confidently manage Copilot and agents securely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These announcements build on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/microsoft-365-copilot-wave-2-pages-python-in-excel-and-agents\/\">wave 2<\/a>\u00a0momentum, including the new autonomous agent capabilities that we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/21\/new-autonomous-agents-scale-your-team-like-never-before\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced in October 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Per the Rundown AI:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">By integrating AI agents directly into Microsoft\u2019s billion-plus users&#8217; daily workflows, this release could normalize agentic AI faster than any previous rollout. Just as users now reach for specific apps or plugins to solve particular problems, specialized agents could soon become the natural first stop for getting work done.<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Along these lines, also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/source\/features\/ai\/ai-agents-what-they-are-and-how-theyll-change-the-way-we-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI agents \u2014 what they are, and how they\u2019ll change the way we work<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from news.microsoft.com by Susanna Ray<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">An agent takes the power of generative AI a step further, because instead of just assisting you, agents can work alongside you or even on your behalf. Agents can do a range of things, from responding to questions to more complicated or multistep assignments. What sets them apart from a personal assistant is that they can be tailored to have a particular expertise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For example, you could create an agent to know everything about your company\u2019s product catalog so it can draft detailed responses to customer questions or automatically compile product details for an upcoming presentation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2024-11-microsoft-pitches-ai-agents-tasks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft pitches AI &#8216;agents&#8217; that can perform tasks on their own at Ignite 2024<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techxplore.com<br \/>\n<em>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told customers at a conference in Chicago on Tuesday that the company is teaching a new set of artificial intelligence tools how to &#8220;act on our behalf across our work and life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I am not trying to push all things AI. There are serious concerns that I and others have with agents and other AI-based technologies especially:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">When competitive juices get going and such forces throw people and companies into a sort of an AI arms race, and <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">When many people haven&#8217;t yet obtained the wisdom of reflecting on things like &#8220;just because we CAN build this doesn&#8217;t mean we SHOULD build it&#8221;, or<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">When governments seek to be the leader of AI due to military applications (and yes, I&#8217;m looking at the U.S. Federal Government especially here)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Etc, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But there are also areas where I&#8217;m more hopeful and positive about AI-related technologies &#8212; such as providing personalized learning and productivity tools (like those from Microsoft above).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Copilot Actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT teams\u00a0&#8212; from microsoft.com by Jared Spataro [On November 19th] at Microsoft Ignite 2024, we\u2019re accelerating our ambition to empower every employee with Copilot as a personal assistant and to transform every business process with agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio. 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