How to Use AI in Microsoft Edge for Chat, Compose, Insights, and Video Enhancement

TL;DR

Microsoft Edge integrates AI into the browser for summarizing pages, answering questions, explaining selected text, composing messages, and improving video quality. Its Discover pane offers chat, compose, and insights modes, while chat responses can cite multiple sources. The walkthrough also demonstrates these capabilities on websites and PDFs, so read on for practical ways to use each feature.

Transcript

Microsoft Edge now has AI integrated directly into  it, and it's a game changer. You can ask questions   about the website that you're currently on. You  can have it compose messages on your behalf.   You can even have it upscale video or  improve the quality of the video that   you're watching. And these are just a few of the  AI features. On the ... Read More

Key Insights

• 🔍 Microsoft Edge now integrates AI directly into it, offering features like asking questions about websites, composing messages, and improving video quality. Google Chrome, on the other hand, lacks AI capabilities.
• 💡 AI features in Edge can summarize webpage content in a way that is easy to understand, which can be helpful when researching complex topics like the cookie market.
• 💭 In chat mode, users can have conversations with the AI, asking questions and getting insights about specific websites or articles.
• 📑 The AI in Edge provides information from various sources, allowing users to access and read more information from reliable sources.
• 🧠 The AI can explain and clarify complex terminology, like CAGR, by highlighting text and engaging in a conversation with the user.
• ✉️ Edge's AI can compose emails, giving users the option to choose the tone, format, and length of their response to messages, making it a time-saving feature.
• 📝 When writing, the AI can predict and autocomplete sentences, improving the writing process and suggesting corrections for spelling errors.
• 🎥 Edge's AI can enhance video quality on platforms like YouTube using Microsoft Video Super Resolution, improving pixelated videos and providing a sharper image.

Questions & Answers

Q: What AI features are built into Microsoft Edge?

Microsoft Edge can answer questions about the current website, summarize its content, compose messages, and improve video quality. The Discover pane organizes its AI capabilities into chat, compose, and insights modes.

Q: How do you access AI features in Microsoft Edge?

Click the Bing logo in the top-right corner of Microsoft Edge to open the Discover pane. From there, you can select chat, compose, or insights.

Q: How does Microsoft Edge summarize a webpage with AI?

The AI recognizes the website currently open and can present its key takeaways. You can also request a simpler version, such as asking it to summarize the page for a five-year-old.

Q: What are the creative, balanced, and precise settings in Edge AI?

They are three settings available in chat mode. The demonstration uses balanced, while Edge shows the differences between the settings when you hover over them.

Q: Can Microsoft Edge AI answer questions using multiple sources?

Yes. When asked about the largest company in the cookie market, the AI produced an answer using information from Fox Business, Statista, and mordorintelligence.com, with links for further reading.

Q: How can Edge AI explain selected text on a webpage?

Highlight the relevant text and send it to the chat from the Discover pane. Edge then offers options to explain, revise, or expand the selection, as demonstrated with the term CAGR.

Q: Does Microsoft Edge AI work with PDF files?

Yes. The same AI capabilities demonstrated on a website also work when a PDF is opened directly in Microsoft Edge.

Q: How does Microsoft Edge AI enhance video quality?

Edge can upscale video or improve the quality of the video being watched. The existing page summary identifies Microsoft Video Super Resolution as the feature used to make pixelated video appear sharper.

Summary & Key Takeaways

• Definition: The Discover pane is the Bing-logo panel that provides access to Microsoft Edge AI capabilities.

• Tool: Chat mode answers questions about the current website and can summarize its content.

• Tool: Compose can draft messages and offers choices for tone, format, and length.

• Tool: Insights compiles questions and answers, key points, page topics, and related websites.

• Step 1: Click the Bing logo in the top-right corner to open the Discover pane.

• Step 2: Choose chat, compose, or insights according to the task you want to complete.

• Step 3: In chat mode, select creative, balanced, or precise, then enter a question.

• Number: The cookie-market example states an expected compound annual growth rate of 5.43%.

• Definition: CAGR means compound annual growth rate.

• Compare: Microsoft Edge has built-in AI features, while Google Chrome did not yet have built-in AI features in the transcript.

• Tool: Highlighted webpage text can be sent to chat for explanation, revision, or expansion.

• Tool: Microsoft Video Super Resolution can improve pixelated video and produce a sharper image.