Microsoft's head of AI wants to create an artificial overly-attached companion for us all: 'It will have its own name, its own style. It will adapt to you. It may also have its own visual appearance and expressions'

A screenshot of Microsoft 365 Copilot promotion animation.

As part of Microsoft's 50th-anniversary celebrations, it's been talking a lot about its past but also its future and one doesn't need a crystal ball to figure out what that will entail. According to the CEO of Microsoft's AI division, we're all going to be seeing a lot more of Copilot and, ultimately, digital companions powered by AI that will form a "lasting, meaningful relationship" with you.

This is all claimed by Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft's AI section, and he expounded on what this would all be like in an interview with the Associated Press. "My goal is really to create a true personal AI companion. And the definition of AGI [artificial general intelligence] sort of feels very far out to me and sort of not what I’m focused on in the next few years.”