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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 peteradio »

costcofries wrote: post #73
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.

Congratulations, you have earned one Micro-buck.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by dwighttk »

mdm12 wrote: post #37
maxdoop wrote: post #22

I wonder how this will play out. Yes, it’s pretty awesome and yes, helpful. But if we extend the timeline, doesn’t this likely lead to AI-generated responses talking to AI-generated questions about AI-generated presentations?

We already have students using AI to generate answers for homework and teachers using automation to grade it. I would say we are already there.

Teachers and students are insulated from productivity

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by elzbardico »

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

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by anaganisk »

mihaaly wrote: post #76

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; T…

Im sometimes feel bad when people say, "wish they solved X before Y." Why should product enhancement stop because of some bug/feature request. Arent bugs given some kind of priority status? I mean, Microsoft is not like a startup with a small team, right? And afaik windows and MS365 teams are not even related. So we can have both things at once. You could leave feedback, and maybe if MS deems it's what they want, probably in a future update, you will see them.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by mynameisvlad »

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.

Maybe it's not actually being requested by masses and instead just a vocal minority that you happen to be a part of? Or maybe Microsoft already calculated that fixing it won't bring much if any more money than not and therefore that it's not worth it.

Just because something that you want fixed isn't done does not mean they're "slow". If it hasn't been included after years of being "requested by masses", then it's more likely it just won't be included period.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by EForEndeavour »

evmar wrote: post #79

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.)

I'd say there are only so many ways to present a text input in a modal window in a document.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by sandworm101 »

RandallBrown wrote: post #67
sandworm101 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can one bring a sexual harassments complaint against a machine? I see this thing being trained up on material within an HR department only to parrot back some horrible phrase it learned after reading hundreds of harassment complaint discussions. I used to work surrounded by lawyers. Just like doctors drift into discussions of horrible diseases, lawyer drift into discussions of horrible legal situations. Letting Clipp…

You would just bring an HR complaint against the person that didn't proofread what the AI said.

Isn't proofreading one of those low-hanging fruits, one of those those easy and mundane tasks at which AI excels?

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by cube00 »

mihaaly wrote: post #76

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; T…

It's the old story, you only get promoted shipping new stuff, maintenance is where careers go to die in the eyes of these companies.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by allenu »

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.

At least the yearly perf review at Microsoft is going to get easier since you just toss all your notes about what you did for the year to Copilot and have it write your summary. Your manager can do the same thing for their notes about you and compare.
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