[EXPLAINER] How Microsoft Copilot can help you write articles, blogs, and reports faster and better

If the post How Microsoft Copilot can help you write articles, blogs, and reports faster and better seemed odd to you then it was probably because it was written by Artificial Intelligence. Completely generated by Microsoft’s Copilot with nothing more than a few simple prompts from me.

As the original post mentioned, Copilot is Microsoft’s AI solution. Obviously it is aimed at trying to leverage the incredible hype surrounding AI in recent months. But it is also a very appelaing new commercial offering that could help make AI solutions much more accessible to the general public.

The Copilot-written post is a bit off/out of date in the sense that someone would need to use Visual Studio (a program that not many are familiar with) to use Copilot. The modern iteration of Copilot simply needs the Copilot license and a Microsoft Word application (or Excel or PowerPoint). They have made it ridiculously easy to write posts (or anything really) with Copilot. All you need to do is give it an initial prompt and then based on the output you can give additional prompts to refine it to what you want.

In writing the original post, I just gave Copilot four simple prompts. And it took all of four minutes to create.

1. Write me a blog post introducing Microsoft Copilot
2. Focus more on using Microsoft Copilot to write articles, blogs, and reports.
3. Add a section that explains how a user can use Microsoft Copilot on Microsoft Word
4. Include a section that explains the benefits of using Microsoft Copilot