Improved sense of time to Copilot in Teams – Vesa Nopanen – My Metaverse Day

Those that have been utilizing Copilot in Groups actively on chats and channels, have very seemingly hit this difficulty when Copilot doesn’t appear to grasp when requested about messages in a selected time-frame that was additional in historical past. For instance, asking Copilot to summarize key motion objects from final week labored with out points, however asking that for one thing that was greater than a month in the past offered combined outcomes because it typically appeared to work and typically didn’t.

In reality, Copilot’s “sense of time” in chats and channels was restricted to the final 30 days of information in Copilot in Groups chats and channels.

Earlier than this rollout, when customers requested Copilot about a very long time interval (equivalent to “Summarize the important thing motion objects from March”), Copilot was restricted to the final 30 days of information.

Take a look at M365 Admin Heart Message heart, with message id MC801583 and public roadmap.

Message heart states additionally different enhancements Copilot in Groups is getting: Enhancements to how Copilot in Groups understands and responds to time-related queries in chat and channels. With this rollout, Copilot will present extra exact and related responses to prompts equivalent to “yesterday,” “final week,” and “final month.”

How is this modification going to be seen in motion when utilizing Copilot in Groups? Message heart’s photographs there can be two key adjustments:

• Improved sense of time
• Simplified timestamp for indicating the timeframe

This replace ought to roll out throughout this month (August 2024). Focused launch tenants might have already got it or get it quickly and basic availability can be rolling throughout mid-August to the tip of August. This may solely have an effect on individuals who has Copilot for Microsoft 365 -license. The replace can be affecting all shoppers: Desktop, Mac, New Groups Internet model and Groups cell apps.

I wanted to do this one early summer time within the demo atmosphere to see the impression of this modification. Utilizing Copilot facet panel for channel dialog thread in Groups.

The chats and channels Copilot offered a solution that included information from December – January, nevertheless it the tip date was on the finish of Could. It was on the finish of Could, when the thread had the final messages. The reply contained solely data throughout December-January messages, so Copilot understood the timeframe already. The explanation for this can be that the dialog thread isn’t too lengthy and thus may be included simply to the language mannequin. Nevertheless, the end result Copilot offered wasn’t absolutely full.

Doing the identical mid-August, we will see the timestamp has been simplified. This time the end result contains all messages and their key duties.