![]() ![]() Note the edit and delete icons at the top right. This is a detail screen I got to from the scrolling list of items. The iPhone previews include a shell image as well as the screen contents. Farther down are Motorola, Samsung, and Xiaomi. The phone dropdown is in alphabetical order by brand, so of course it starts with Apple iPhone models. The dropdowns at the top right allow you to choose different form factors. The default app preview uses a web layout. Pressing the triangle at the top right allows you to preview the application. If you navigate to the main screen, you will be able to change screen-wide properties such as the theme we’re changing here. ![]() You can navigate at both the left and bottom side of the screen, add and edit at the far left and top, and edit properties at the right. Once you’ve generated the basic application, you can explore its screens and components and their properties, modify them as you wish, and add more data. The actual code generation happens after you click the Create app button on the lower right side of the screen. If you type “add more rows” in the Copilot text box, you will see a larger table, but the contents may change randomly-in my case, from school supplies to fruits. Merely clicking a suggestion currently does nothing. Not all the suggestions shown on the lower left currently accomplish anything other than to regenerate the sample table. The table screen shows a simple proposed table with a Copilot box at the right. This tactic is consistent with the way Power Apps generates applications from tables. At the moment, it takes you to a “Here’s a table for your app” screen. The application generation process seems to be less than meets the eye. If you want to revert to the old home screen, use the toggle on the top right side of the screen. To be able to see this currently, you have to enable the preview, wait, and possibly create a new development environment and refresh the screen a few times. The Power Apps home screen now offers a text-based “Let’s build an app” option at the top of the page, which uses GPT. We’ll concentrate on application generation for now and look at specialized GPT flows later on. That said, there are two major use cases for AI Copilot in Power Platform: generating applications and using GPT for specific flows or focused tasks. ![]() Now that it applies to Windows 11, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform, I’m less convinced. Microsoft and GitHub’s “copilot” branding sort of made sense when it only applied to acting as a pair programmer using programming editors. The Azure ML Platform is for building AI models Azure AI Services are for professional software developers who need to use or customize the functionality of those AI models and AI builder lets citizen makers consume the models with no programming experience required. As you can see in the figure below, AI Builder is at the top of Microsoft’s AI stack, drawing on the capabilities present in Azure AI Services-the domain of professional developers-and making them available to citizen makers within Power Apps and Power Automate. Microsoft recently folded generative AI capabilities into the AI Builder section of Power Apps and Power Automate. AI Builder in Power Apps and Power Automate After focusing on AI and machine learning capabilities in Microsoft Azure for the past couple of years, the company is now adding generative AI to the mix, thanks to a large investment in OpenAI that has made ChatGPT/GPT-4 available to Azure users. Microsoft has been banging away at this problem for decades, going back to Excel. But historically, such efforts often stalled without the participation of programmers and database administrators. Low-code and no-code software development platforms were developed to enable so-called citizen makers (also known as power users and non-professional programmers) to create professional applications. ![]()
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