微软AI负责人Mustafa Suleyman透露，公司正致力于将Copilot打造成高度个性化的AI助手，使其能够“成长”。近期推出的Copilot虚拟形象（Copilot Appearance）是这一愿景的关键一步。该功能允许Copilot以实时的表情、语音和对话记忆与用户互动，赋予其“永久身份”和“数字铜绿”感。用户可以通过虚拟形象获得更具吸引力和人性化的交流体验。Suleyman还暗示了对Windows桌面界面的改进计划，旨在创造更简洁、更专注的工作环境，这可能预示着Copilot在未来将进一步融入Windows操作系统和Copilot Plus PC等产品中。

✨ **Copilot的个性化与“成长”：** 微软AI负责人Mustafa Suleyman设想Copilot将具备高度的个性化，甚至能够“成长”，拥有“永久身份”和“数字铜绿”感，这意味着AI助手将随着与用户的互动而积累经验和特点，从而提供更具深度和温度的体验。

🚀 **全新Copilot虚拟形象：** 微软正在预览名为“Copilot Appearance”的新功能，该功能通过实时的表情、语音和对话记忆，为Copilot提供了一个全新的视觉交互方式。这使得Copilot能够像一个虚拟角色一样，根据对话内容做出微笑、点头甚至惊讶等反应，增强了用户与AI的互动性。

💡 **用户体验的优化与未来展望：** Copilot Appearance的早期体验已在Microsoft Copilot Labs开放，但仅限于美国、英国和加拿大的部分用户。此举是微软深化AI助手个性化战略的一部分。Suleyman还对Windows桌面界面提出了改进意见，希望创造一个更安静、更简单、更优化的工作环境，这可能预示着Copilot未来在Windows平台及Copilot Plus PC上的更深入整合。

🧠 **借鉴过往经验与团队整合：** Suleyman曾联合创办Google DeepMind，并带领微软新团队负责消费级AI产品。他将Copilot的转型与在Inflection AI时开发的个性化AI聊天机器人Pi进行了类比，表明微软正积极整合其在AI领域的专业知识和团队资源，以加速Copilot的发展和用户体验的提升。

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has a vision of Copilot that involves it being so highly personalized that “it will age.” Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Copilot to be a personalized AI assistant, with a big redesign last year that included a conversational voice mode. Now, Suleyman’s Microsoft AI team is launching a new Copilot virtual character that will interact in real-time with you.

“Copilot will certainly have a kind of permanent identity, a presence, and it will have a room that it lives in, and it will age,” says Suleyman on an episode of The Colin & Samir Show this week. “I’m really interested in this idea of digital patina. The things I love in my world are the things that are a little bit worn or rubbed down, and have scuff marks. Unfortunately in the digital world we don’t have a sense of age.“

Part of this idea of a permanent identity for Copilot is a new Appearance feature that Microsoft has started previewing this week. “Copilot Appearance is an experiment that gives you a new, visual way to chat with Copilot, powered by real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory,” says Microsoft.

Suleyman gave us an early glimpse at Copilot Appearance during Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event a few months ago. It’s essentially a virtual character for Copilot, to respond to queries you have — a little like how Cortana used to animate. Copilot Appearance will smile, nod, and even act surprised depending on the conversation. Early access for Copilot Appearance is live now in Microsoft’s Copilot Labs, but it will only work for a subset of users in the US, UK, and Canada.

Copilot Appearance is the next step in Microsoft’s mission to personalize its AI assistant. Suleyman, who helped co-found Google DeepMind, joined Microsoft more than a year ago to lead a new team that handles the company’s consumer-facing AI products, like Copilot, Bing, and Edge. Suleyman has quickly turned Copilot into something that closely resembles Pi, the personalized AI chatbot he was working on at Inflection AI. Most of the Inflection AI team joined Microsoft, and Copilot was overhauled months later with its voice and vision redesign.

Suleyman also hinted that the Windows desktop might be where Microsoft turns its AI attention next. “I hate my desktop,” said Suleyman on the podcast episode. “I look at my screen and I’m like ‘shit man I have a billboard in front of me.’ It’s just so noisy, so neon, and it’s all competing for my attention. It just looks ugly.”

While Microsoft AI is improving voice and video, Suleyman says he wants a “quieter, simpler, optimized working environment” and that he’s thinking about improving his “workshop” in the future. That might be a hint at potential changes to the Copilot app on Windows in the future, or even bigger changes with Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PCs.

Suleyman said he has customized his phone UI so much to avoid distractions that it’s basically a black and white theme designed to hide things. “I use a little rose tint so everything else is noised out, most of the apps are moved to the left and right, and my home screen is really just two or three primary apps,” he said.