Copilots numbers likely that high merely because it rides along with Office365… I tried using it a few times, and was completely useless. Even failed at sorting a spreadsheet with a few parameters
I wrote a page long documentation on a project. I asked Copilot to “format it to look nice but do not change a word”… it told me how to make some headings bold (would not do it itself) and what not… that’s the “assist” I got
I couldn’t even copy/paste the format since it’s reply window does not apply and the text it provided was interlaced with its own stupid comments letting me know bold headings are more visible than regular font
I get better results just bouncing ideas off my cats
That was my experience. Wife had work telling her to use it, she asked me for help. I tried to get it to do things and all it would do is suggest stuff that we both knew perfectly well how to do with shortcuts. As for anything complex like have a chat and generate a document: fuck no. Might as well go to chat-jippity and copypasta it’s result and format it yourself. Utter waste of time. I don’t see why it’s there, I can’t find a use-case.
I work with sensitive data… so I often grab a real message, gut all the PHI and refill with some fake data.
I had a project where I needed to do a lot of these, so I got DeepSeek to give me a list of superhero “real names”, DOBs, gender and a few other fake things so I could automate filling these messages with fake data. This is the most success I have had with AI and even then it messed up (minimally) thinking for some reason that Wanda was a guy hahahaha
i think MS is just putting AI into everything, just for the sake of it, they dont really care if its useful or not at this point. they just need to buy time to soften the blow when the bubble bursts.
MS is running into a real problem where its two major product lines, Windows and Office, don’t have any major improvements that justify an upgrade. It is an existential crisis to the company’s profitability.
Now, MS has been able to make Office into a subscription, but it can’t do that with Windows.
Did you try asking copilot tips on how to use it properly? Edit* this was a joke. Ai is garbageware that nobody wants, just like ads and capitalism for capital sake. Now untwist your panties.
Yes, I did. Everything I tried on copilot wanted me to upload corporate data to the cloud. (Yeah, NO). It told me it could help with my email…if I uploaded them individually. (Still bad practices here and breaking corp policy).
I expect LLMs should be really good pattern driven activity, but I’ve yet to figure out how to make this useful.
I tried to use a local LLM to summarize outline and discuss my *.md notes for annual review. It sucked at it if it didn’t completely crash the model. It couldn’t even provide a unique list of all tags in the files. (It took me about 30min manually). I thought that it would be good at that. I would have been better off spending to learn find | grep commands or spent time learning python.
I’m still searching, but maybe one day I’ll figure out a use for these.
We use it during down time for amusement to see how badly it can do things. Actually we did, it’s gotten a bit boring as it’s not even good at doing bad. It just sucks. Carrying on the MS tradition.
Copilots numbers likely that high merely because it rides along with Office365… I tried using it a few times, and was completely useless. Even failed at sorting a spreadsheet with a few parameters
I wrote a page long documentation on a project. I asked Copilot to “format it to look nice but do not change a word”… it told me how to make some headings bold (would not do it itself) and what not… that’s the “assist” I got
I couldn’t even copy/paste the format since it’s reply window does not apply and the text it provided was interlaced with its own stupid comments letting me know bold headings are more visible than regular font
I get better results just bouncing ideas off my cats
That was my experience. Wife had work telling her to use it, she asked me for help. I tried to get it to do things and all it would do is suggest stuff that we both knew perfectly well how to do with shortcuts. As for anything complex like have a chat and generate a document: fuck no. Might as well go to chat-jippity and copypasta it’s result and format it yourself. Utter waste of time. I don’t see why it’s there, I can’t find a use-case.
I work with sensitive data… so I often grab a real message, gut all the PHI and refill with some fake data.
I had a project where I needed to do a lot of these, so I got DeepSeek to give me a list of superhero “real names”, DOBs, gender and a few other fake things so I could automate filling these messages with fake data. This is the most success I have had with AI and even then it messed up (minimally) thinking for some reason that Wanda was a guy hahahaha
i think MS is just putting AI into everything, just for the sake of it, they dont really care if its useful or not at this point. they just need to buy time to soften the blow when the bubble bursts.
We put it in everything, and bet all of our money on it to “soften the blow”
yeah it really feels like incompetence rather than a strategy to weather the bubble pop :p
MS is running into a real problem where its two major product lines, Windows and Office, don’t have any major improvements that justify an upgrade. It is an existential crisis to the company’s profitability.
Now, MS has been able to make Office into a subscription, but it can’t do that with Windows.
Did you try asking copilot tips on how to use it properly? Edit* this was a joke. Ai is garbageware that nobody wants, just like ads and capitalism for capital sake. Now untwist your panties.
Yes, I did. Everything I tried on copilot wanted me to upload corporate data to the cloud. (Yeah, NO). It told me it could help with my email…if I uploaded them individually. (Still bad practices here and breaking corp policy).
I expect LLMs should be really good pattern driven activity, but I’ve yet to figure out how to make this useful.
I tried to use a local LLM to summarize outline and discuss my *.md notes for annual review. It sucked at it if it didn’t completely crash the model. It couldn’t even provide a unique list of all tags in the files. (It took me about 30min manually). I thought that it would be good at that. I would have been better off spending to learn find | grep commands or spent time learning python.
I’m still searching, but maybe one day I’ll figure out a use for these.
We use it during down time for amusement to see how badly it can do things. Actually we did, it’s gotten a bit boring as it’s not even good at doing bad. It just sucks. Carrying on the MS tradition.
lol
yeah, it errored out too