Understand artificial intelligence, intelligent agents and automation through practical examples. Explore how these tools are built, where they help and what people need to check before relying on them.
An AI website builder can produce a convincing first screen in minutes. Whether someone can complete a task on that page is a different question—and one worth checking before the design goes live.
An AI agent can save a few clicks and still create a difficult afternoon. The problem often starts with an instruction that sounds clear to a person but leaves too much room for interpretation.
Microsoft outlined a Windows strategy on October 7 in which AI work can move between a device and the cloud. The announcement places security, identity and management alongside the ability to run agents.
Microsoft is expanding Copilot from a place to ask questions into a workspace for building and delegating tasks. Its September 25 announcement introduced Home, Code and Autopilot, with rollout through the Frontier program.