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Microsoft is betting big on generative AI, with agents taking center stage.

Unveiled at Ignite, agents are set to become an essential part of how companies operate.

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This will free humans from the mundane aspects of the modern workday.

What other AI agents is Microsoft announcing?

Microsofts new AI agents take that idea and push it to an entirely new level.

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They also adapt in real-time to demand and need.

And this is just the start with agentsset to get smarter in the future.

One of the biggest angsts many people working in an office will have is getting information from SharePoint.

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It will also get much easier to build agents with new updates to Copilot Studio.

The update will enable people to create an agent that can perform actions without having to constantly re-prompt it.

They are templates that can be adapted and automated to trigger specific events.

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This will help it provide better reports and action points from a meeting.

It will suggest how to improve and even create the spreadsheet.

What is the point in AI agents?

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Well, the idea comes back to ask me once.

You tell the AI what you need and it makes that happen.

In future, it will be able to create fine-tuned mini-versions of itself to perform tasks with a controller.

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At that point, we will be getting close to artificial general intelligence.

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