The Rise of AI in Microsoft Edge Deep Dive ![rw-book-cover](https://wsrv.nl/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2Fpodcast_uploaded_nologo%2F40226674%2F40226674-1704876284821-f2c11043a4f64.jpg&w=512&h=512) ## Metadata - Author: [[Hard Fork AI]] - Full Title: The Rise of AI in Microsoft Edge Deep Dive - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/7a059912-a8f8-4626-985c-06789d27e267 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - **Microsoft Edge AI Copilot Launch** - Microsoft Edge has integrated an AI copilot to enhance browsing tasks. - This experimental feature aims to keep Edge competitive amid AI browser developments. Transcript: Jaeden Schafer Microsoft Edge has just launched an AI browser embedded into it. This is really interesting. So today on the podcast, I want to be breaking down how useful this new quote unquote AI agent built into Microsoft Edge is. Is this a copy of other AI browsers that we've seen, like the one like Comet from Perplexity? Is this new? Basically, what is it able to do? Microsoft gave me a heads up on the story like a week ago. So I've been waiting for their launch to be able to kind of talk about this. And I do think that there are some really interesting use cases that I'm not seeing from a lot of other people. And then there's also some things I think they have room to improve on. So I'll be getting into all of that today. But before I do, I wanted to mention, if you want to try any of the AI models that I talk about on this platform, on my podcast, I'd love for you to go check out AIbox.ai. It's currently in beta, but it is my AI playground platform and a lot of exciting things coming in the future. But basically, right now you can access the top 40 AI models all in one place and chat with them all in one thread. So if you're working on a document for work and you use ChatGPT to help you come up with some sort of data analysis, and then you're like, you know what, the tone on this document sounds A little too robotic. So you can go switch to Claude and say, hey, reformat this to have a better tone because I find Claude is so much better at tone. And maybe you need to do some more in-depth analysis or you need to go look at some real world tweets and you can use something like Grok. There's all sorts of different tools that have different strengths and weaknesses. So go check out the platform and see what is currently available over there because we're adding new models all the time on aibox.ai but it's 20 bucks a month you get access to image audio And text models and you can try them all on one platform without having access subscriptions to everything so go check it out there's a link in the description all right let's get into What's going on with microsoft edge basically the thing that i think is really interesting here is okay well first of all, I got to say, I apologize, because when they give their examples Of what you can use this for, they of course use the infamous how it can help you book flights and how it can help you find recipes. These are my two least favorite examples of all time, because every single AI company, whenever they come with a new demo, use these. And I think that they're just like, so brutally regurgitated feeling but in any case I'll talk about some actually very useful use cases that I think this is able to do but I might use some Of their examples to illustrate some functionality basically inside of inside of their edge browser they have a co-pilot mode which is an AI that you can talk to and ask it questions And can help you do things ([Time 0:00:00](https://share.snipd.com/snip/56ad79be-b38c-4c13-b162-59cd52310302)) - **Use Multiple AI Models Strategically** - Use different AI models for strengths like tone improvement or analysis. - Trying multiple AI models on one platform can optimize your workflow. Transcript: Jaeden Schafer So if you're working on a document for work and you use ChatGPT to help you come up with some sort of data analysis, and then you're like, you know what, the tone on this document sounds A little too robotic. So you can go switch to Claude and say, hey, reformat this to have a better tone because I find Claude is so much better at tone. And maybe you need to do some more in-depth analysis or you need to go look at some real world tweets and you can use something like Grok. There's all sorts of different tools that have different strengths and weaknesses. So go check out the platform and see what is currently available over there because we're adding new models all the time on aibox.ai but it's 20 bucks a month you get access to image audio And text models and you can try them all on one platform without having access subscriptions to everything so go check it out there's a link in the description all right let's get into What's going on with microsoft edge basically the thing that i think is really interesting here is okay well first of all, I got to say, I apologize, because when they give their examples Of what you can use this for, they of course use the infamous how it can help you book flights and how it can help you find recipes. These are my two least ([Time 0:00:54](https://share.snipd.com/snip/6e3fb83d-060d-42b1-a490-40a458a6237d)) - **Experimental Opt-In AI Feature** - Microsoft treats copilot mode as an experimental, opt-in feature. - This approach helps them innovate while managing user privacy concerns. Transcript: Jaeden Schafer Okay. Microsoft says that basically copilot mode is still considered an experimental feature, right? So if everybody hates that, they could say, okay, we're getting rid of it. I don't think that'll happen. But I think they're basically... Basically, what's happening, in my opinion, is we have Perplexity that came out with a pretty decent tool in OpenAI that's working on tool. Microsoft doesn't want everyone to front run them. All of these little startups to basically come out with a tool faster than Microsoft, the big epic company could and so they're like they're they're basically acting like a startup By releasing a tool that's quote unquote an experimental tool it doesn't work perfectly you can try it now um but they want to seem cool and hip and like look we're making innovative stuff Not just copying everybody in six months when they feel like their browser's a little bit better um it's also opt-in um by default which i know some people will hate actually personally I hate that i hate it when when tech companies make anything opt-in by default it's like you can have a little pop-up that says would you like to use this and you say click yes but i do not Like it when all of a sudden your your browser is recording everything you're doing or looking at everything you're doing because they did an update and you never opted out of it oh my Gosh so annoying but in any case i do think there's some interesting interesting things of course pc or mac users can get access to this it's free currently they may add some sort of payment In the future but currently it's free so there's a few main parts of this once you enable it edge users are going be, are basically going to have a tab page where they can search, chat, and Navigate the web with Copilot's assistance. When you visit a specific web page, you can go to Copilot and ask for more help. So their example is like if you go to a cooking recipe and, you know, the top of every recipe, there's like the person's life story and you got to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page Because they're trying to do Google SEO and that's where you actually find the recipe. Well, if you click on a recipe page, you can go to the copilot and say, just tell me what the recipe is and it will just give it to you right there. How much faster that is than scrolling to the bottom of the page? I'm not sure. Personally, I have the Logitech, not sponsored, but I have the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse, which is amazing. And it has a metal scroll wheel with a bearing in it that I can flick and get to the bottom of any webpage in about one second. So is it going to be any faster? And the reason I bring this up is because this is literally one of their examples. So is it going to be any faster for me to go and ask it what the actual recipe is? I don't know. But maybe, maybe if it's not at the bottom of the webpage and it's like in the middle somewhere and they have stuff at the bottom, maybe if it's hard to find on the website, you could get It to do it faster. I don't know. That one, I'm not sure if it's a good use case. And I will come up with some good use cases, by the way. But that one, I'm not giving them a full pass for that one. Another thing that they said is that it can handle ([Time 0:02:59](https://share.snipd.com/snip/bc42f52e-3124-4041-a3df-bf77854d439a)) - **AI Research Companion Feature** - A key valuable feature is AI analyzing all open tabs for research. - This helps consolidate information and automate data comparison conveniently. Transcript: Jaeden Schafer I'm done tearing them up and saying it's useless. This is a good use case. And I think this is interesting. Some people might think it's creepy, but I do think it's interesting. Basically, you can use it as a research companion, which we've heard from a lot of tools, but you can actually tell it to look at all of the tabs that you have open on your browser. Okay, finally, a browser specific useful AI use case that no one else is doing. So if I'm doing research and I go, I'm like, let's say I'm trying to buy like a new barbecue or something. I go on Amazon and I open up like seven different tabs of like different top barbecue brands. And I'm like switching between them to see what the dimensions of everything are, to see what the cost of everything is. I think it'd be amazing if you could just tell it like, Hey, go do the research, look at all of my tabs, make a spreadsheet, you know, compare everything side by side, sort everything by Whatever barbecue is like the cheapest, but also the biggest, like you can do a whole bunch of really cool things like that, where it's looking at all your tabs, you put you go find all The data, or maybe you tell it to go research it and open a bunch of tabs. But it's like looking at all your tabs. I think that's a very useful thing that's gonna be really interesting. In the future, it's going to prompt people to pick up where they left off on a project. So if you're doing a bunch of research, say, looking at barbecues, then you leave, your computer gets shut down, you fire it back up. It's like, hey, you want to continue on your barbecue project research? And you could be like, no, I forget it. I don't want to do my barbecue anymore. Is that annoying or is it useful? I don't know. Some people find it both ways. But it will also recommend next steps to take on those kind of projects. So I think this is interesting right now. Microsoft obviously is stressing that it's only going to be able to access your browsing content when you choose to allow it. It's going to be very transparent to the end user with some visual cues. They said the idea that you can now toggle on or off a feature that's available to view and listen to you while you search is going to be totally up to you. Some people won't like it. Some people will. I think it's, I think that there's a lot of value and especially in the ability to look at a whole bunch of different tabs. So you have a project where you're looking at a whole bunch of different tabs, you're planning your wedding ([Time 0:07:42](https://share.snipd.com/snip/5ab09bd2-107e-490d-afb2-8177fa34c38e)) - **Control AI Access Transparently** - Control when AI accesses your browsing content by toggling settings. - Transparency about data use improves user trust in AI functionality. Transcript: Jaeden Schafer User with some visual cues. They said the idea that you can now toggle on or off a feature that's available to view and listen to you while you search is going to be totally up to you. Some people won't like it. Some people will. I think it's, I think that there's a lot of value and especially in the ability to look at a whole bunch of different tabs. So you have a project where you're looking at a whole bunch of different tabs, you're planning your wedding or something, and you have tabs on all the different things that you're planning On doing and you get it to like consolidate or make a report. I think that's very interesting and ([Time 0:09:15](https://share.snipd.com/snip/aaab7060-b159-46fa-8bd6-a09a7bd6b0d8))