Microsoft has revealed some new features it will be adding in the coming months to its Copilot service for Microsoft 365 generative AI. They focus on helping people improve the text prompts they type to get better results from Copilot.

in the post on Microsoft’s blog, the company says it will add texting autocomplete to Copilot. This will be similar to the autocomplete features used in Google’s Gmail for writing emails and typing text messages on your smartphone.

Microsoft will also add a related feature that will rewrite a Copilot text message you’ve already written so that it works better with the chatbot.

In addition, a new interface is being developed for Copilot for Microsoft 365 called Catch Up. The company stated that Catch Up “presents personalized insights based on your recent activity” and then “provides responsive recommendations”

Microsoft also revealed that company team leaders in Microsoft 365 will be able to “create, publish, and manage guidelines in the Copilot Lab” that are tailored to their specific team’s needs.

Microsoft also added that sometime in the future Copilot will be able to ask questions directly to their users, so they could, in theory, be even more productive at work.

Speaking of work, the same blog post revealed Microsoft’s results The fourth annual Labor Trend Index, Survey of 31,000 employees worldwide. Working with Microsoft’s business and hiring social network LinkedIn, the survey says that 75 percent of knowledge workers are now using AI tools,

Microsoft claims that the survey shows that 55% of the company’s leaders “concern that they have enough talent to fill open positions this year.” According to this report, workers are improving their AI skills to be employable. The blog post reads:

As of last year, we’ve seen a 142x increase in LinkedIn members adding AI skills like Copilot and ChatGPT to their profiles and a 160% increase in non-technical professionals using LinkedIn Learning courses to build their AI skills.

Microsoft clearly wants all of these employees to use these skills in Copilot for Microsoft 365 so that they can sell additional licenses for this service.