At SUNY Geneseo, we use Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) as our approved AI chat solution.

With the power of GPT-4, an advanced AI mode. Copilot enables you to:
Quickly summarized long PDFs and articles
- Effortlessly craft professional and customer-ready content
- Create stunning images for social media, articles, emails, and more
Using non-approved AI web services can expose our University's data to the public.
Use Copilot for AI chat to help keep our data safe with built-in commercial data protection from Microsoft.

Copilot - a new way to search

Get answers, not links. We're used to searching the internet with keywords and getting pages of links. Now, we can chat in conversational language to get detailed, customized answers from the internet. We can ask for:

Summaries
Analyses
Tables
Content
Images

AI chat enables us to uncover insights that link various data points, providing fresh perspectives that may not have been documented previously. This capability is what distinguishes AI chat as "generative AI"—it generates responses rather than merely directing users to existing links.

Chat is the new way to "internet". Simply put, AI-powered chat gives you custom answers

Get Started with Copilot

Copilot can be accessed in five places: bing.com/chat, Microsoft Edge sidebar, Microsoft app on mobile, Windows, and Copilot.Microsoft.com

Signing in

Navigate to Copilot on your preferred browser on your device. Copilot is compatible with Microsoft Edge and Chrome on desktop PCs.
Ensure you're signed in with your work account
- You will know you are successfully signed in with your work account when you see a green "Protected" tag next to your credentials in the top right corner of your screen.
- If you are not signed in with your work account, your data is not protected while using AI chat.

Copilot Components

Start a new chat button - clear your past chat and start a new conversation.
Protected badge - you’re signed in with your work account and confirm that you’re Protected. If the green tag is missing, sign in with your work account.
Suggested prompts - if you’re not sure what to ask, try or modify a sample prompt!
Text box - enter your question (your “prompt”) here.

Prompts

Prompts and how to use them effectively

A prompt is the question or instruction you enter in the text box. This is what Copilot will respond to. Use natural language. Don't feel like you need to break your idea or question down into keywords.

Classic search is about keywords to get a list of sources. Chat is about using detailed questions or statements to generate a custom response for you.