The mind-boggling capabilities of “generative” ai look set to transform many desk jobs. It is also a glimpse into the future of Microsoft, which was once the world’s most valuable public company and hopes to reclaim the title by selling the technology that will power the transformation. Through the firm’s investment in Openai, the startup behind Chatgpt, a popular ai chatbot, it is able to inject cutting-edge AI  into its products. For years Microsoft has been trying to coax office workers to write reports, populate spreadsheets and create slide shows using its office software. No longer: now it wants to do the writing and populating for them. With a few words of instruction, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence or “Copilot”, as Microsoft calls it finds a vast file in a computer folder and summarises its contents.  What is take on the effect of generative AI on Microsoft demand ?

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