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Copilot Crash and Burn?

Our old friends at Windows Central, citing Business Insider, have a bleak view of Copilot:

Is Microsoft flying a sinking ship with Copilot and 'gimmicky' AI tools?: "We are building the plane as we fly it. Nothing else matters. They want a Copilot tie-in for everything"

Instead of giving users the driver and software support they NEED, Nadella and company focus only on feeding the Copilot monster they are creating...makes "Apple Intelligence" seem not so lame and stupid...

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Steve S

I haven't been using Copilot a lot, but I have to admit that when I have, I've always been impressed. I'm not a big AI user, so my opinions are definitely limited...

james!

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We have CoPilot integrated into our IDEs at my work. I've tried using it to solve a particular issue I have, but it's not been great so far. It's supposed to be able to analyze your code and make suggestions and answer questions, but when I ask it to analyze a particular document, and then ask it to modify the document to do a new thing, it says it analyzes it, but then when I ask for the modification, it says it can't see my code. It can only give me a generic example.

Spoiler alert, the generic example, even after heavy modifications, doesn't work.

It is very good overall at auto predict for writing code that is pretty standard and saves time writing those functions.

But, for the type of work I do, it's 90% hype, 10% help.

JoeS

Nov 22, 2024

Great news Dale, you can try Recall! https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/microsofts-controversial-recall-scraper-is-finally-entering-public-preview/

JoeS

Nov 21, 2024

The article mostly complains about Copilot working worse, not that Copilot itself is a bad idea, right?

Personally I'm pretty intrested in any LLM additions (chatGPT-like). I don't think I'll be using any image generation or video generation any time soon, but being able to ask an LLM about a large document without having to read it in detail is useful.

I also like listening to articles, and the latest machine-learning based text-to-speech voices (like in Azure TTS) are now so good that it's actually pleasant to do this. As little as one year ago, TTS was still pretty robotic, even when using premium voice providers like NeoSpeech.

So while MS forcing AI into the Windows UI is annoying, having some of these tools be part of Office 365 is pretty great imo.

james!

Nov 21, 2024

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I don't mind it as Optional. I don't like that MS wants to bake it into everything so you don't have choices. Especially while it's in this phase of hallucinating and making other mistakes.

james!

Nov 21, 2024

I think as always, business is going to bail out MS on this one.

I feel like lots of tech companies are adopting CoPilot as a tool to "enhance productivity" of their developers.