Dear companies, please stop using the term “Copilot” for everything. It is honestly confusing and doesn’t help anyone. Imagine a conversation like this:
GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps you write code faster and with less effort, allowing you to focus more energy on problem solving and collaboration.
AWS Copilot is an open source command line interface that makes it easy for developers to build, release, and operate production ready containerized applications on AWS App Runner, Amazon ECS, and AWS Fargate.
I can’t actually find an official definition for Microsoft Copilot. Lol. As of Nov 2024, if you do a search and end up in the above page, all you see is a chat interface and page titled “Microsoft Copilot – Your AI companion”.
The official page for Microsoft 365 Copilot is full of marketing-speak. It doesn’t help that different features are available depending on the region you are in. For the purpose of this article, we’ll go with the US version.