Copilot sounds amazing on paper. The free (to 365 subs) version on the web is just Chat GPT4, so that’s familiar enough. The integration with 365 applications is really what grabs me. Stuff like tossing it 10 spreadsheets and asking it to analyze and compare the data, having a virtual assistant to remind me of upcoming actionables, and summarizing a meeting when I zone out - it all sounds really handy.
I met with Microsoft last week and they’re down for giving me a 90 day trial if I want to take it for a spin. Any thoughts or suggestions? I ideally want to determine if this will improve productivity for my end users enough to be worth the insane cost of $30/user/mo.
Because our society is not in any way, shape, or form ready for ai. One of the often touted end uses of AI is replacing busywork jobs. That’s great, if our nation (America) didn’t tie liveable income, healthcare, etc. to having a job. Without better social programs, and more importantly, a society that wants better social programs, ai will end up being a net negative for humanity.
Also, llms are wrong just as much as they’re right (if not more often wrong), but are always confident. And in the world we live in where people generally pick the easy road, that means all the errors made never get caught or fact checked because people think AI is infallible. And if I have to go proofread everything copilot kicks out anyways, is it really saving me that much time? Especially because authorizing it increases the odds that people just trust the program, and don’t check the outputs, so some wonky ass code or statements get published.