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Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by xen2xen1 »

mihaaly wrote: post #78
jatins wrote: post #12

Shipping at big companies can often be surprisingly hard so it's impressive to see how fast Microsoft is moving with AI integration into all their products.

It is also impressive how slow they deliver the option of ungrouping taskbar icons, which is requested by masses for years now, and actually worked before. I know, I know, that is a much harder poblem than AI. Maybe they need to improve AI much more first so it could have superhuman powers, solving the task bar ungrouping problem finally for the humanity.

No it's not. They obviously just decided not to do it.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by Xelynega »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #132
elzbardico wrote: post #83

Really. I used chatGPT quite a few times to summarize corporate spam emails to me. So this now makes things deliciously ironic: 1. BS Manager jolts down a few lines then AI outputs pompous bullshit from the raw bullshit she wrote. 2. I get the bullshit email and then use AI to distill the bullshit down to the essential bullshit

It sounds absurd but I think this is actually what is going to happen. Corporate speak will become an extremely inefficient protocol only spoken by machines, while the humans only look at the actual content.

What does that mean for Microsoft who get a $ for each encode/decode to the corporate speak protocol? And what does it mean for the companies that can't afford the tithe to Microsoft to automatically encode/decode corporate speak like everyone else?

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by 101008 »

the_pwner224 wrote: post #223
101008 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Writing can be improved. If your position requires better writing try to improve it, not replace your lack of skills with an AI. Using a AI is the same as to pay someone else on Fiverr to write the emails for you.

No. Using AI for this will increase your writing skills as long as you put more than 0 effort into it. He's presumably not doing 1) paste his draft into ChatGPT, 2) paste the ChatGPT output into the text editor, 3) click publish. If your objective is to create a well-written and effective document (rather than having AI autowrite some useless email), you wouldn't just blindly publish the ChatGPT output. You would rea…

I do exactly that to improve my grammar (check my history comments, I even mentioned it as a positive use case of ChatGPT).

And I agree that it is a good tool if you decide to put some effort on that, but that wasn't my impression from the original comment.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by xen2xen1 »

411111111111111 wrote: post #134
jodrellblank wrote: post #112

Amazing! I keep banging on about how Microsoft is building the business lock-in of the next decade, and this is a sign of it. Put down your snubs about Clippy and frothing about "EEE" and look at that announcement: > " Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data — your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts — to do things you’ve never been able to do before. You can gi…

I dont remember a single time when people supposedly said that EEE wasn't still being done. There are just countless examples of people misattributing everything to be EEE. Vscode is another recent example of Microsoft still doing EEE by first creating the editor, destroying a lot of the IDE/editor ecosystem, just to eventually remove the important bits into non-free plugins, making the free version of codium basical…

EEE means screwing over a competitor's product. This is not that, this is a significant upgrade to their own product. Calling this EEE means you have an M$ sized axe to grind.

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Post by ajolly »

xen2xen1 wrote: post #211

When can I talk to it on my PC? Typing to talk to an AI is so 2022.

Windows 22h2 has some pretty good voice to text options built in, "voice access preview"

I've actually stopped using dragon, or talon in favor of the built-in tools, at least for dictation.

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Post by Vespasian »

fancyfredbot wrote: post #212

Hurrah! Now we can enter 3 bullet points, have an AI automatically turn them into 3 pages of waffle, and then copilot can automatically summarise those back into bullet points again.

I'm really hopping that waffle will become less relevant as human effort in it decreases.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by version_five »

cardosof wrote: post #226

Here's the GPT4 summary of the url: Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft has introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot, a next-generation AI-powered productivity tool integrated into Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Copilot harnesses large language models (LLMs) and combines them with data in the Microsoft Graph to streamline work processes. It aims to unleash creativi…

Do people still think they're adding value to the discussion by posting gpt output? It got old the day after the model came out, now it's just obnoxious noise. Can we please stop?
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