According to the U.S. Trademark andpatentThe list published by the USPTO,MicrosoftObtained a patent on artificial intelligence, mainly based on employees' processing of documents, to help bosses evaluate employees' work performance.
In its patent, Microsoft outlined an AI system that collects data on employees' activities on documents within a specified time period, and provides insights into employees' modifications, deletions, additions, and other operations, thereby determining whether employees are "slacking off" at work or working hard.
The main goal of this technology is to determine who has contributed the most to a document, especially a shared document in an application like OneDrive, but it is not limited to that.
Microsoft stated in the patent that existing technology cannot accurately describe the relationship between employees and documents, and therefore cannot distinguish which employees made only minor edits and which employees made significant contributions to the document content.
Microsoft hopes to leverage AI ToolsInsight into this document relationship,Hopefully, in the future Microsoft 365 will be able to not only track employee activity, but also report on it.
This AI system can not only track your working hours, but also analyze the quality of your work based on certain parameters, and generate an activity report for HR and bosses to evaluate your work performance.