Microsoft’s AI Assistant Copilot is no longer a voice in your browser, it’s getting a face. The company has begun to test a new feature called Copilot Appearance, giving its genetic AI Chatbot a touch of personality, which is completed with manifestations and gestures.

Think of it as a upcoming party of Copilot: Usually faceless AI now smiles, shakes and reacts because it chats with you. Microsoft says that he wants to give users “a new, visible way to chat with Copilot”, and it is starting with an experimental roll-out via Copilot Labs.

The experiment adds an amazing amount of life for interaction. With real-time facial expressions, Copilot now uses non-verbal signals when you speak it. This includes simple nodes, a smile, and a touch of character when answering.

And there is more, voice mode is getting a memory upgrade, which means that chatbott will not just hear your voice, but will also remember your ongoing conversation. If it looks like talking to an animated character in a video game, it is very thought.

At the moment, this new form is exclusive to the web version of Copilot. There is no sign of the feature coming on Windows or mobile apps, so you will need a browser to complete the new face of Microsoft AI.

For those who can access it, it is easy to switch to the Copilot appearance. Click on the microphone icon to enter the voice mode, go to the voice settings, and flip the “Copilot appearance” label togle. From there, Copilot will react to your voice command with all the enthusiasm of the assistant on a new work.

Mustafa Suleman, who led Microsoft’s AI Division, explained the thinking behind these changes in Colin and Sameer show this week. “Copilot will definitely have a kind of permanent identity, an appearance, and it will have a room in which he lives, and it will be the age,” said Suleman.

The purpose, he suggests, Copilot is to feel like more than a chatbot – like a digital partner. Suleyman first teased Copilot’s expressive side at the 50th anniversary ceremony of Microsoft. Now, those early experiments have developed in a public test for users in the US, UK and Canada.

This is not Microsoft’s first attempt to give human touch to software. Long before Copilot, the clippy was, the animated paperclip who pleased offered (whether you wanted it or not). Clippy went down as one of the most annoying assistants of all time in tech history – although some now love their strange attractions very much.

With Copilot appearance, Microsoft appears to be learning from its past. This AI is not to interrupt here; This is to attach here. And till now, there is no indication that it will grow googly’s eyes and bounce on your screen.

For now, Microsoft has not announced a time -line for a wide release, but given the company’s big stakes on AI, it is safe to assume that it is the beginning of Copilot’s makeover.