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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 srveale »

agloe_dreams wrote: post #52
hestefisk wrote: post #40

This calls for a Dilbert cartoon

Better idea: Use GPT-4 to create an AI Dilbert generator that lacks a nutcase cartoonist.

From ChatGPT (free version, maybe the paid version is funnier?)

In the first frame, the boss is sitting at his desk typing on his computer, while his employee looks on. The boss says, "I've discovered this amazing new tool! It's a generative language model that can write all my emails for me!"

In the second frame, the boss shows his employee a sample email he wrote using the tool. The email reads, "Greetings, minion. I require an update on your progress. Chop-chop, or you'll be the next one to get the axe. Cheers, Bossman."

In the final frame, the employee looks horrified and says, "That email is terrible! It's rude, condescending, and threatening!" The boss shrugs and replies, "Well, at least it saved me some time. I was going to write something even worse!"

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by swader999 »

xattt wrote: post #27
QuadrupleA wrote: post #20

My first thought is, "gross"... now we'll have to wonder whether Manager X is even paying attention to the emails they're reading and responding to, or doing any actual work or thinking. Could lead to a world that's even more tilted towards politics and socially engineering your way up the ladder, versus competence and skill.

> Could lead to a world that's even more tilted towards politics and socially engineering your way up the ladder, versus competence and skill. The skill and competence of the coming world will be in prompt-writing.

For a year or two maybe.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by costcofries »

QuadrupleA wrote: post #20

My first thought is, "gross"... now we'll have to wonder whether Manager X is even paying attention to the emails they're reading and responding to, or doing any actual work or thinking. Could lead to a world that's even more tilted towards politics and socially engineering your way up the ladder, versus competence and skill.

This will fundamentally change the way that M365 enables collaboration. I am truly fascinated by how quickly Microsoft is moving right now, it's really impressive. The moat on AI in enterprise continues to get bigger and bigger.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by costcofries »

rqtwteye wrote: post #46
dopeboy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest takeaway from all of this. I’m very impressed with their velocity.

Let's see if it's the same type of velocity they have with Teams. Constant change that breaks things.

I hope you have a better day.

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Post by mihaaly »

I wish they solved basic things first not working well (several times after ruining a perfectly working situation) and wasting more time for me than I can gain with this copilot thingy. Like the taskbar so I could go back to the last window used when icons are grouped, not to the last opened; meeting reminders shown in the front and not under other windows burried so I only notice when the meetings already started; Teams screen sharing is updated with Teams update and not asking me if I want to update it right in the middle of a meeting when I start sharing; have the icons in the same location across Win and Mac in Outlook (also not rearranging all the time, thanks); and uncouple taskbar icons if I want so, I want this the most. Those would be the most revolutionary inventions boosting productivity.

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Post by vorpalhex »

andsoitis wrote: post #69
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.

> people will only read the summaries instead the real texts I can see a world where more humans get better at writing concise text.

Humans who can write obviously as humans and not sound too GPTish are about to become very valuable. Everyone else, especially folks who naturally use a GPTish style are about to have some sudden difficulties.

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Post by mihaaly »

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.

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Post by evmar »

It's interesting to compare the screenshot here with the one in Google's similar announcement:

https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/gene...

They look strikingly similar. Is it just the obvious design for this, or is one company following the other's design? (I believe neither of them have actually shipped anything yet, though I'm not sure.)

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by janeway »

croes wrote: post #51
JanSt wrote: post #26

This is going to revolutionise office work. If it works as advertised, we are witnessing the complete reshuffling of (office) work and unprecedented productivity increases. I'm wondering about the future job market. edit: livestream: https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/

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.
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