Microsoft has revealed a new plug-in for Copilot, its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, named Power Automate that will enable users to (as the name suggests) automate repetitive and tedious tasks, such as creating and manipulating entries in Excel, handling PDFs, and file management.
This development is part of a bigger Copilot update package that will see several new capabilities being added to the digital AI assistant.
Microsoft gives the following examples of tasks this new Copilot plug-in could automate: