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Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure
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My work indicated that they would start expecting people to make use of Copilot. There's been small errors in every answer Copilot has given me, but it has surfaced information and been able to accurately answer a few questions that would have taken me hours with Microsoft docs to find without knowing it in advance (I always confirm the data).
I can see the value in a natural language search engine. In being able to ask questions about documentation and software/system capabilities in natural language and get natural language answers.
But it makes too many errors to be reliable because it tries to be generalist instead of organizing concepts and tokens properly for the specific domain. It costs way too damn much for the not super impressive thing it actually does, and it only does that at a barely passable level.
I hate that me needing to use it for work for the sake of appearances only serves to normalize it to me and others, while adding to the inflated count of users.
I found it often gives garbage results, so you have to know the subject well enough to weed through the nonsense. So it can be helpful if you already know what you are trying to do and just need a bump.
Exactly what I've been saying. LLMs are solid if you know the subject matter enough to discern valid results from bullshit.