Microsoft's AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring 'Emotional Support' to Windows and Office

Mustafa Suleyman was at the center of an artificial intelligence revolution once before. As a cofounder of DeepMind, a British company acquired by Google in 2014, he helped devise a new way for computers to tackle seemingly impossible problems by combining practice with positive and negative feedback. DeepMind demonstrated the approach by developing a superhuman Go-playing program, AlphaGo, which defeated the world's best Go player in 2016. Now the CEO of Microsoft AI, Suleyman is talking up a new kind of AI breakthrough. As CEO of Microsoft AI, Suleyman oversees efforts to integrate the same AI that powers ChatGPT into software--including the Windows operating system--that runs most of the world's personal computers.