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What are your thoughts on Microsoft Copilot? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Copilot sounds amazing on paper. The free (to 365 subs) version on the web is just Chat GPT4, so that's familiar enough. The integration with 365 applications is really what grabs me. Stuff like tossing it 10 spreadsheets and asking it to analyze and compare the data, having a virtual assistant to remind me of upcoming actionables, and summarizing a meeting when I zone out - it all sounds really handy.

I met with Microsoft last week and they're down for giving me a 90 day trial if I want to take it for a spin. Any thoughts or suggestions? I ideally want to determine if this will improve productivity for my end users enough to be worth the insane cost of $30/user/mo.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I’ve had a lot of opportunity to use copilot at work, and it’s always been a joke. If you ask it to do any tasks that would actually give you a result, you’re better off just spending that time doing it right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

It's crap, search is far better for me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I did that test drive and was highly disappointed - but that was several weeks (==versions) back.

It couldn't adjust power point slides, was lost in word documents and didn't grasp context of queries.

Same prompt in chatgpt 4 and copilot resulted in vastly different results as well.

That said: give it a go! Is love to get a more recent update. The reminders and meeting features I didn't test at all for example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fact they're forcing it onto you should tell you everything you need to know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm not being forced into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From the other comments, it sounds meh right now, but I've always been impressed by the speed at which OpenAI improves their product so, with their tight partnership to MS, it might not be long before it's something special. Maybe wait 6 months to use your 90 day trial. I'm most interesting in what it can do for Power BIs Q&A functionality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Copilot is way behind on chatgpt though - I guess they don't want to throw the compute power necessary to leverage the full models - that could change any day I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Copilot as an autocomplete for coding is quite useful. I save a fair amount of time simply not typing the short snippet I was about to type.

Anything more than that probably not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

One thing you should know is that there is an up-and-coming moment among hackers to use co-pilot to deliver/execute virus payloads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're talking about Copilot on the Web. My post is about Copilot for 365, which only touches internal data and has no access to the web.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was referring to the one that comes forcibility installed in W11.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oic. My org is still using Win10.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They've been forcing people to update, thankfully W11's forced AI bullshit makes it require quite a few gigs to install, so if your drive is limited on space you can just flat out prevent them from forcing the update onto you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's Microsoft. Kill it with fucking fire.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Lol