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Posted by fortran77 3 days ago

Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems(www.wsj.com)
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-pivotal-ai-product-is...
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duxup 2 days ago|
In some ways this reminds me of the .NET marketing debacle Microsoft pulled where every product suddenly was ".NET" and nobody could explain what that meant or what it did that was helpful.

Similarly Copilot is everywhere, but why I would want it there or use it there is unknown.

smithkl42 2 days ago||
Copilot is basically ChatGPT after Microsoft hit it on the head with a pipe hard enough and long enough to drop it about 20 IQ points.
deafpolygon 2 days ago||
The problem here is attributing “Copilot” as a simple chat bot. This is one of the features, yes- but it exists to make surveillance en masse easier. When copilot is on every device, OS and application- they can correlate so many bits of information on people.
nl 2 days ago||
Copilot is such a typical MS product.

It checks all the correct checkboxes on a feature list in comparison to the competition but it just sucks to use.

It's like Sharepoint - the deathpit of all collaborative software

kittikitti 2 days ago||
It's a product that gives system administrators a power trip. Imagine you control every capability of an AI and you're not qualified to have engineered it. You would give more access to your favorite departments, projects, and coworkers while keeping the defaults as restrictive as possible. I've seen this happen in real time across many different companies. I've known people who were reported to HR by them for using HuggingFace.
ZeroCool2u 2 days ago||
Microsoft Copilot: The Sharepoint of chatbots

I can't imagine a description more likely to give corporate workers the ick.

isoprophlex 2 days ago||
Nadella is in the position he's is, clearly, and I'm just a nobody. The guy must be onto something, and I'm just a delusional internet commentator.

However.

No-one I know, literally not a single soul, is delighted by using any of the copilot-branded tools. What's more, almost everyone seems to resent these tools due to their hamfisted design, poor performance and seedy marketing.

The copilot suite of... things is, in other words, shit.

Yet somehow Nadella seems blind for the fact that they're trying to push a turd sandwich onto their client base?

I can't believe a MSFT ceo would be THIS incompetent, but here we are.

The mind truly boggles.

jjcm 2 days ago||
Product leaders should really measure internal usage as a litmus test for whether or not people actually want these things. It's honestly shocking how much MS's brand has diminished in the last few years because of them pushing the copilot brand into everything.
ProfessorZoom 2 days ago||
Is anyone surprised? Windows can't even open and close file explorer reliably without lagging or refusing to respond. How could they possibly rival these models?
verdverm 2 days ago||
Microslop can never be a real Ai company if they can't build a frontier model and push the envelope themselves. Today they are completely dependent on 3rd party companies, not a good position to be in.
bagacrap 2 days ago|
They own a quarter of openai
verdverm 2 days ago||
Right, they had to buy it, not build it
bagacrap 1 day ago||
Well yes but it's hardly third party any more.
christkv 2 days ago||
The lobotomized version of Open AI models. It feels worse than small local models I run. Does anyone know what size of models they are running?
smcleod 2 days ago|
Microsoft's everything is running into problems. Seriously though, it always seems like a dumpster fire over there but the last year is next level with all their Windows 11 problems, Windows update problems, Office365 outages, Copilot issues, Azure outages etc... not to mention the features no one seems to want.
Ylpertnodi 2 days ago|
Several people are not happy about the association with Bill Gates, too.
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