August 2024

Inside you, tales swirl. Yarns wait to be plucked out of your thoughts’s most creative corners then shared with the world.

To tease them out, many people simply want a bit assist. AI may be that conduit, inspiring you to information these strands of creativeness out of your head to your display screen, the place you may polish them into private, perhaps even highly effective tales or tableaus.  

Right here’s the purpose, although: That creativity doesn’t come from AI. It comes from you.

This month, we’ll share experiences from a handful of designers, artists and writers. Every used Microsoft Copilot to assist them craft distinctive narratives, uplifting traces of poetry and vibrant photographs that vary from the whimsical to the cinematic to the gloriously zany.

We’ve additionally bought a recent quiz to check your smarts on some methods AI is altering how we work. And we’ll present you the way Particular Olympics athletes are main that group’s race towards a tech evolution.

Feeling inventive? Effectively, have we bought some fascinating of us so that you can meet.



Every summer season, about 15,000 younger professionals in communications and promoting head to France to savor a smorgasbord of unique pondering.

They collect on the Cannes Lions Worldwide Competition of Creativity to share, soak up and award groundbreaking concepts throughout these fields. In celebration of that occasion, we requested creators all over the world to pen a singular story in Copilot.

We gave them only one rule for his or her prompts: Embrace the film-noir line, “The door flew open, and in walked bother …” They dredged up some messy bother, some enjoyable bother and a wild whirlwind of bother.

Take Regan Warner. The London-based inventive director and designer tapped some furry inspiration from her workday – three cats that dominate her desk house.


With a bit AI help, she generated a picture of a stylishly curated cat home, aglow with filtered daylight, reside vegetation (catnip, we suspect) and one full-on hipster kitty.

Elsewhere within the metropolis, the day by day crush of commuters barging on and off trains within the London Underground “is bother to me,” writes Peniel Gebreselassie, whose design work spans vogue, artwork and, not too long ago, a cheeky Xbox controller impressed by the summer season blockbuster “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

A person wearing a large inflatable bubble-like suit standing in a subway train doorway, with passengers seated inside the train.

That final accomplishment is apropos. As a result of generally, Gebreselassie looks like she wants superpowers simply to navigate crowds. So she figured, why not use Copilot to assist her sketch out a legendary product to ease these mob-filled moments?

Tah-dah! Meet the “Anti-Bother Bubble.” Constructed with air air flow and AC, the protecting outfit inflates with the clicking of a button and affords a USB port for recharging. After the morning or night rush is finished, it deflates, enabling it to be tucked right into a tote bag or jacket pocket. If solely, proper?

On a far completely different word, the tangled dance between our goals and the chaos of our lives stirred Candace Solola to supply a passage – and a wild picture – mixing stormy and serene notes. Solola, an award-winning model designer in Chicago, wrote that “within the coronary heart of each tempest, lies a core of tranquil mild, guiding us via the turbulence.”

A dynamic swirl of various colorful flowers and petals against a dark background, creating a visually striking tornado-like formation.

Ultimately, the AI train led her to write down a fairly superior mantra: “So let the winds of chaos roar, and the wonder inside us shine.”

When August Heffner mirrored on his artwork faculty experiences – and the numerous jobs he subsequently landed as a designer – he realized what number of doorways had so properly opened for him alongside the way in which.

A boy with glasses sculpts a clay rabbit at a table in a well-lit room with various pottery items on shelves and a large window to the left.

The chief inventive director from Portland, Oregon turned that feeling of gratitude into a way of mission to now open doorways for others via hiring, mentoring, educating and elevating a youthful technology of creatives.

“So in walks the subsequent technology … bother,” Heffner wrote. “And within the phrases of (the late civil rights big and U.S.) Rep. John Lewis, ‘they’re bringing good bother.’ They may problem all the things that got here earlier than them. That features difficult you and me. I’m right here to blow doorways open and invite bother.”

He used that revelation to immediate Copilot to supply a picture of a boy, carrying glasses and sculpting a rabbit in an artwork studio bathed in heat, pure mild.

Now, fellow troublemakers and artistic peeps, we’d like to see your AI-generated “in-walks-trouble” photographs within the feedback. Head to Picture Creator in Bing and, utilizing that very same immediate, present us what you bought within the feedback!



No one ought to stifle your creativity. However generally AI can get, like, a bit too inventive.

AI fashions can often get it fallacious. Generally that occurs when adjustments are made to the huge fashions that AI faucets for its studying. When these cases pop up, we name that content material “ungrounded.” Meaning the responses are usually not linked to verifiable information.

Now, such AI fabrications may be useful, if you happen to’re, say, making up a narrative. However they’re not nice if you want exact, factually hermetic solutions.

Be taught extra in regards to the accountable instruments we’ve put in place to measure, detect and cut back inaccuracies and ungrounded content material.


In February, we shared a quiz to pinpoint your “AI character.” We’re again with a enjoyable, 10-question take a look at to measure your understanding of how individuals and organizations are adopting and utilizing AI at work.

No spoilers right here. However the newest quiz contains questions like: Which business is including AI to their infrastructure the quickest? Amongst international data staff now utilizing that tech of their jobs, how is it serving to them most? A touch on that one (you’re welcome): Time is cash!


Contemporary triumphs, recent tech at Particular Olympics

Haleigh Sommers, a Particular Olympics athlete, not too long ago loved a candy “ego enhance.”

She rolled her all-time bowling excessive – 140! – at a Particular Olympics occasion. That was nice however she’s extra jazzed by the truth that she will lend her voice to the design and performance of a brand new digital “middle of excellence” the group is constructing. Utilizing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Gross sales, the portal will make it simpler for athletes to register on-line for sports activities and assist mobilize hundreds of thousands of volunteers.

Sommers is certainly one of many athletes and volunteers invited to make use of the brand new interface, then assist form its appear and feel.

“Though I’ve a incapacity, I can provide suggestions – and it’s heard and listened to,” says Sommers, 28, who lives in Pennsylvania. She has cerebral palsy. “I didn’t suppose I’d be this concerned in Particular Olympics after I began. It’s loopy to me!”


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