Microsoft announced a business-friendly version of Bing Talk on Wednesday, allowing you to utilise the AI chatbot for work without risking a security breach.
Chatbots such as Bing, ChatGPT, and Bard are effective productivity aids for employees. They can summarise large quantities of material, produce code, and assist in the generation of new ideas. Nevertheless, utilising AI chatbots for business poses significant privacy dangers since the massive language models that underlie the products may utilise your discussions to enhance the model. Conversation history are also recorded on the servers of the corporations.
These dangers became painfully obvious when Samsung employees mistakenly divulged trade secrets while debugging code and summarising notes from private sessions using ChatGPT. As a result, numerous businesses, including financial institutions, Apple, and even Google, have prohibited or advised employees against using ChatGPT at work. To address privacy concerns, OpenAI added the option to opt out of sharing your chat history with the model in April.
Microsoft promotes Bing Chat Enterprise as having built-in security safeguards to avoid another Samsung disaster. According to the announcement, Bing conversation data is not kept, is not utilised to train its algorithms, and Microsoft has “no eyes-on access.”
Microsoft also revealed pricing for Copilot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
Copilot costs $30 per month per user for business clients. It is in addition to the existing Microsoft 365 subscription, so it is not inexpensive. But, as stated in the release, Copilot can summarise meetings, make presentations, help you manage your inbox, and much more. If time is money (and your organisation is wealthy), it may be a worthwhile trade-off.