Copilot is branding, not a product or feature. Problem is that the features/products that run under that branding don't have proper names themselves and I guess that's what trips up a lot of people.

No no, you're confusing it with Copilot Series X, it leverages the latest Windows screen capture technology on your Xbox One X Series One and is intended to help speedrunners up their game, while also helping connect everyone else with relevant products and services from over 9000 partners.

I encountered MS Copilot recently when I reluctantly installed Windows for a local charity (their idea, not mine). Basically, if you do a search it'll give you the results but will then fill your screen with other information allegedly related to your query but relayed in the most verbose and annoying manner possible.

Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image generation, I think). I use it at work every day and it is super helpful. I haven't compared it to ChatGPT, though.

For better or for worse, it absolutely works. Pumping water from other sources or copying another type of well has been Microsoft's MO for almost 50 years and they're one of the most valuable companies on the planet.

It's chatgpt wearing a hat and sunglasses

I thibk its the AI version of Clippy or something embedded in Office or Microsoft365 or whatever they call that thing these days.. (i think, i have absolutely no idea either :)