{"id":291101,"date":"2025-07-25T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291101\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:05:16","slug":"microsofts-ai-ceo-thinks-copilot-will-age-and-have-a-room-that-it-lives-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291101\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and \u2018have a room that it lives in\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft\u2019s AI CEO, has a vision of Copilot that involves it being so highly personalized that \u201cit will age.\u201d Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Copilot to be a personalized AI assistant, with a big redesign last year<\/a> that included a conversational voice mode. Now, Suleyman\u2019s Microsoft AI team is launching a new Copilot virtual character that will interact in real-time with you.<\/p>\n

\u201cCopilot will certainly have a kind of permanent identity, a presence, and it will have a room that it lives in, and it will age,\u201d says Suleyman on an episode of The Colin & Samir Show<\/a> this week. \u201cI\u2019m really interested in this idea of digital patina. The things I love in my world are the things that are a little bit worn or rubbed down, and have scuff marks. Unfortunately in the digital world we don\u2019t have a sense of age.\u201c<\/p>\n

Part of this idea of a permanent identity for Copilot is a new Appearance feature that Microsoft has started previewing<\/a> this week. \u201cCopilot Appearance is an experiment that gives you a new, visual way to chat with Copilot, powered by real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory,\u201d says Microsoft.<\/p>\n

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Copilot Appearance is now live for some users. Image: Microsoft<\/p>\n

Suleyman gave us an early glimpse at Copilot Appearance<\/a> during Microsoft\u2019s 50th anniversary event a few months ago. It\u2019s essentially a virtual character for Copilot, to respond to queries you have \u2014 a little like how Cortana used to animate<\/a> in China. Copilot Appearance will smile, nod, and even act surprised depending on the conversation. Early access for Copilot Appearance is live now in Microsoft\u2019s Copilot Labs, but it will only work for a subset of users in the US, UK, and Canada.<\/p>\n

Copilot Appearance is the next step in Microsoft\u2019s mission to personalize its AI assistant. Suleyman, who helped co-found Google DeepMind, joined Microsoft more than a year ago<\/a> to lead a new team that handles the company\u2019s consumer-facing AI products, like Copilot, Bing, and Edge. Suleyman has quickly turned Copilot into something that closely resembles Pi, the personalized AI chatbot he was working on at Inflection AI. Most of the Inflection AI team joined Microsoft, and Copilot was overhauled months later with its voice and vision redesign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Copilot Appearance will smile, nod, and act surprised. Image: Microsoft<\/p>\n

Microsoft is moving slowly with the rollout of Copilot Appearance, likely because similar conversational chatbots have allegedly sent harmful messages to teens<\/a>. Character.AI was even sued<\/a> after a chatbot-obsessed teen\u2019s death, with the platform being described as \u201cunreasonably dangerous.\u201d AI chatbots are also being used as partners<\/a>, parents, and even for dealing with the grief of losing a loved one.<\/p>\n

Beyond the personalized aspects of Copilot, Suleyman has also hinted that the Windows desktop might be where Microsoft turns its AI attention next. \u201cI hate my desktop,\u201d said Suleyman on the podcast episode. \u201cI look at my screen and I\u2019m like \u2018shit man I have a billboard in front of me.\u2019 It\u2019s just so noisy, so neon, and it\u2019s all competing for my attention. It just looks ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Microsoft AI is improving voice and video, Suleyman says he wants a \u201cquieter, simpler, optimized working environment\u201d and that he\u2019s thinking about improving his \u201cworkshop\u201d in the future. That might be a hint at potential changes to the Copilot app on Windows in the future, or even bigger changes with Microsoft\u2019s Copilot Plus PCs.<\/p>\n

Suleyman said he has customized his phone UI so much to avoid distractions that it\u2019s basically a black and white theme designed to hide things. \u201cI use a little rose tint so everything else is noised out, most of the apps are moved to the left and right, and my home screen is really just two or three primary apps,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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