This Week in AI: Copilot agents, GPU shortage, AI memorandum [Video]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has announced that it will begin rolling out its autonomous agents via its Copilot Studio next month.

These autonomous agents are task-specific artificial intelligence (AI) models designed to handle work tasks from start to finish. Similar to AI chatbots, the agents are accessible to all users as long as they enter a sufficient prompt; all a user needs to do is enter a clear set of rules or guidelines that the agent must follow to complete the task at hand, along with any reference documents that the AI can refer to when executing the task.

Microsoft has also allowed room for the AI agent’s owners or operators to step in and check the agent’s work along the way or for the agent to notify its owner/operator if it hits a roadblock and isn’t sure what to do next.

“Agents draw on the context of your work data in Microsoft 365 Graph, systems of record, …