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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 nunodonato »

photochemsyn wrote: post #54
qrybam wrote: post #17

A couple of years ago I was on a walk with my wife and she asked me “what’s the point of Siri? it can hardly do anything useful outside weather and timers.” I told her a tall tale of how these things are essentially going to become our personal assistants in the future, they’ll know about our unique situations and can act accordingly. Just like the rich and powerful have people who specialise in organising their live…

You're assuming that the AI assistant will have your own interests as its priority, and not the interests of some other party. If this 'tool' is being supplied by a government or corporation, then it could be used to create a very static hierarchy - imagine some incompetent upper-level bureaucrat using it to discover and sabotage any competent lower-level employees who might eventually present threats to their own po…

that's why I'm working on my own assistant, with a fine-tuned model which actually learns and memorizes stuff about the user :)

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by tcbyrd »

Hardwired8976 wrote: post #2

That seams to be one of the best use cases for this, provided you can run it without giving Microsoft a lot of data directly. Else this is a no-no for enterprises imo.

The integration mentions working with Microsoft Graph API, and it’s doing the generation on the client, so seems plausible this has no more access than any other OAuth app. The Graph API can be locked down with Access Policies. I’m sure there will be features to further cordon off data to the AI, similar to how OneDrive has an encrypted vault which is not accessible from the Graph API.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by warning26 »

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.

I don't like a lot of things about the direction that Microsoft has taken Windows's UX, but this is absolutely an edge case that only a tiny % of users care about, and certainly not "masses" of anyone.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by mihaaly »

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/

> If it works as advertised.

Dit it ever happened that advertisements of hyped things did not work out as advertised? Wink, wink.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by olyjohn »

costcofries wrote: post #74
rqtwteye wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My day would be better if my basic communications tools worked as expected, and I didn't have to wrangle it into doing shit all day long.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by nyc_data_geek1 »

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

The shape of things to come.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by valine »

mgkimsal wrote: post #63
photochemsyn wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're assuming that the AI assistant will have your own interests as its priority, and not the interests of some other party. If this 'tool' is being supplied by a government or corporation, then it could be used to create a very static hierarchy - imagine some incompetent upper-level bureaucrat using it to discover and sabotage any competent lower-level employees who might eventually present threats to their own po…

> It does have great promise in an open-source self-hosted incarnation not controlled by external actors, however. I'm not even sure about that, entirely. My very limited understanding of this is that a core requirement is the initial data - the large language models(?). Which of these you can use, or how it's initially developed/populated, will have an influence on the answers you get and how it may evolve/"learn".…

I think for now, the data requirements to train a SOTA LLM are so extreme we don’t have the luxury of being picky with the training data. We are getting close to the point where there isn’t enough human written text in existence to continue scaling these models.

Model refinement seemingly has lower training requirements, putting it within the reach of smaller organizations or wealthy individuals. If you don’t like the refinement dataset it will likely be feasible to bootstrap your own off someone else’s LLM. See what Stanford did with Alpaca.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Post by Pxtl »

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.

Different teams have very different processes. The AI/Bing group is obviously much more "move fast and break things" than the OS group.
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