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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 lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

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…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

(Don't mind me, just the formerly confused passing through.)

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by aroo »

version_five wrote: post #240
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?

I think it'll stop when browsers integrate an LLM powered summary tool

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by fancyfredbot »

MengerSponge wrote: post #247
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.

Satire article from literally 20 years ago: Word 2004 to Pioneer AutoUnsummarize Feature https://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/12/autounsummarize.html

That article is fantastic! I love "When asked for comment on the ethical issues present, Greenwood promised to have a five-thousand word report ready by Monday."

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by ugh123 »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #271
411111111111111 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... (Don't mind me, just the formerly confused passing through.)

THANK YOU

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by varispeed »

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.

This is I don't understand. Why people prize waffle so much?

They somehow think that if they type three sentences about something, it will not mean they spent week's worth of hard work to come up with them.

So the extra time is being used on coming up with waffle, as a sort of self guilt tripping and then when this waffle is presented, the team understands the effort that had to be given into coming up with the waffle.

Probably out of fear that if small, but actually meaningful output wouldn't correlate with the amount of work needed in the eyes of management and could cause losing one's job.

This is an awful awful culture and rather than working to eradicate it, M$ is trying to embrace it.

It's a massive drag on productivity and really a waste of money. Employees would be much happier if they could put feet up and relax after spending good amount of work, rather than stressing about how to sugar coat it and pad with content.

The thing with AI is that it is very easy to spot that content is not written by human after reading enough of AI written text. So the copilot may work short term as an ailment for this, but what happens in a few months time, when everyone will know most presentations are just bs?

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by croes »

janeway wrote: post #80
croes wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it won't, we'll get more useless texts because it's easier to write them, we'll get more communication errors because people will only read the summaries instead the real texts.

There will probably be no “real texts”, just key facts. Your personal AI can phrase the content to your taste based on the context.

To my taste based on the context sounds like another filter bubble.

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Post by eastbound »

tiffanyh wrote: post #184
hestefisk wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Enter: Microsoft Bob

Melinda French lead Microsoft Bob She was once married to a guy named Bill Gates. https://twitter.com/melindagates/status/917030072846036993?l...

For a demo of MS Bob: https://youtu.be/5teG6ou8mWU

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by tekkk »

It's a good and an obvious feature to implement. Probably will save time but I can't but wonder how useful the tasks are in the first place when an AI can do them. Generating a PowerPoint presentation from general observations about some data sounds pretty silly. Helping you to make some Excel spreadsheet is probably more useful but I digress. Never been much of a Office 365 user.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by ChikkaChiChi »

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…

> Something DropBox could have been doing with their massive trove of business documents? Something Slack could have been doing with their massive haul of chat history?

Absolute truth. Discoverability in modern apps is a sad joke at the expense of the users. I guess "search that actually works" isn't enough of a value prop to actually get dev time.

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