Microsoft has identified another service that its AI Copilot has not been available on. Today, Microsoft launched Copilot officially for the messaging service Telegram.
Word of warning: while you do not need a Microsoft account to communicate with the AI, it is necessary to part with your mobile phone number for verification purposes.
Here is how it works:
- Open the Telegram app and search for Microsoft Copilot, or, open the official Microsoft Copilot Telegram page here.
- Select I Accept when asked to do so to continue.
- Provide Copilot with the device’s phone number for verification.
Once that is out of the way, you may interact with Copilot using text messages or by selecting one of the displayed ideas.
Note: Copilot limits interactions to 30 per day. This is not much and there is no option currently to increase the limit.
The bot accepts a few commands:
- /restart to end the current chat and start over.
- /ideas to display examples.
- /share to get invites for friends.
The most important command is restart, as it erases the previous chat so that you can start a new one.
Interactions work as you expect them to work. Type a message and submit it to get an answer.
As is the case with all Copilot interactions, messages are send to Microsoft servers. They are processed there and then returned to Telegram.
The process was quick during tests. It is unclear whether that is going to change as the bot’s popularity may increase on the platform.
All in all, you do get the same experience that you get on other platforms that Copilot is available on. The experience is limited, because of the 30 chat turns limit and the inability to generate images at this point.
Verdict
Considering that you can interact with Copilot on other platforms as well, without handing over your phone number, most of you will probably shy away from the Telegram bot experience.
Have you interacted with Copilot or another AI before? Did you like it or find it useful?