From pie and mash to precision boot-making, Copilot is AI for the people. Come with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman as he returns to his hometown to demo the latest Copilot features, including Mico. https://msft.it/6049tBNzL
All the feels seeing this full circle moment and Mustafa Suleyman showing off Mico to the people where he grew up 🫶
The lucky ones aren’t those who reach great heights, but those who savor every step along the way. Life’s beauty lies not in the destination, but in the journey itself. You always seem to love and enjoy what you do Mustafa Suleyman 👏 🎉 👏 Ultimately, nothing endures without purpose and the same is true for AI. A large part of the population still doubts or fears it, yet AI holds the potential to help humanity reach a new level of understanding, creativity, and capability. It can empower us to discover deeper meaning, solve problems faster, deliver higher-quality outcomes, and extend our impact farther than ever before. We need to clearly define what AI can do for a broader audience and help people feel confident and safe using it. It’s about inviting everyone to join the journey and reinforcing that message continuously. The internet didn’t become successful just because it was invented , it thrived when everyday people embraced it and drove a co-evolution with technology. AI now needs that same kind of widespread participation and support from a large, engaged user base.
Mustafa - I love everything about this video and the adventure. I even experienced the introduction of AI to my mom for the first time exactly how you did with the lady in the pie and mash establishment. The only place I paused to think is where the clip mentioned considering Copilot as a 'mentor'. While AI has a partnered research responsibility in providing available knowledge - 'mentor' to me is aspirational and borderline human sounding - being "trusted" and "experienced". The best mentors in my life were proactive in relationship, those who cared and empathized. I appreciated your blog on "We must build AI for people; not to be a person". The title of mentor is awfully close to a person persona, but I could be wrong in selfishly reserving that title strictly for my favorite human leaders. Still thinking...thanks for the post. Great work!
I have been using copilot for 6 months. I was lucky enough to be one of the people allocated a trial license for the corporate version, and I use it on my personal account. That is where the positivity stops. More often than not, I get one of two feelings when it answers: 1. It generalised and doesn't give accurate responses 2. It gives me an answer that I want to hear. When asking questions of a technical nature (how do I achieve this goal with Powershell, for example) it is capable of also providing bare faced lies. I have a script, for example, that does most of what I need and after doing my research (and ruling out many options along the way) I ask for help to push that last 10%. The answers it provides as fact are regularly the things I have already tried and discounted. The moral of this is that I don't want AI to be my friend, or to have conversations with it like the Pie Shop lady does. I want a Web Searching Ninja. Copilot is NOT the ninja I need.
Love this video. Such a powerful way of showing use cases. Thanks for sharing this Mustafa Suleyman
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3wThis is a beautiful example of what we try to teach in our AI workshops: AI isn’t about shortcuts. It’s about expression. I’m a conceptual artist by background. I’ve worked as a designer, educator, and strategist. What all those roles share is the need to translate thought into form—that’s what this Copilot story does so well. In one of our sessions, we show a photo of Paul McCartney standing in front of a synthesizer. When that technology came out, people said it would replace real musicians. Paul didn’t see it that way. He said, now I can work anytime I want. He could get up at 3am and try out trumpet, bass, strings—without a full orchestra. That’s what AI is. It’s a new instrument. Some of us will play it like Santana. Some of us like Van Halen. But everyone will play it differently. What matters is that we keep creating. Keep learning. Keep translating what’s in our head into something others can experience. This spot captures that beautifully. Thank you for making it.