2 months until China drops a better one for free
And it runs locally
(on 1TB memory)
looks like a wet dream for people who only ever did management jobs
We have copilot at work and we are expected to use it. They recently updated the Copilot desktop app to include live voice chat, where you can have actual “conversations” with it. To be honest, that actually is kind of impressive. Unfortunately, that’s also about where the impressiveness stops. I burned up all of my daily voice chat limits, and I don’t even know how many tokens trying to get that stupid thing to walk me through making a relatively minor configuration change in Azure. It could not do it. It was consistently wrong about so many things.
You would think Microsoft would be embarrassed about selling a chatbot that can’t even tell you how to make basic configuration changes to their own products. Personally, I’m not strongly opposed to LLMs. But the value proposition that all these tech firms are currently selling is laughable at best.
is it that impressive? I’m guessing it’s just a layer of speech-to-text then token parsing like usual.
The different LLMs do vary in abilities. What I find amazing is how bad Copilot is compared to any of the others. Not just on complex stuff, but basic requests. I’ve had local models do better, years ago.
IKR? For what it costs and for how hard Microsoft has worked to shoehorn it into everything, it offers very little in terms of increased productivity. I would go so far as to call it an epic failure. Especially considering they spent vast sums of money on it and all they managed to produce was something that is at best marginally good at drafting emails.
As far as a coding assistant, Copilot is pathetic and produces code that is utter trash much of the time.
The real benchmark should be if it can explain Microsoft licensing without self destructing.
To be fair, I’m not sure a single human could tell me that accurately either…
Or what has actually transitioned between AD, AzureAD, EntraID, and the works
You only get the capability in copilot to query the licensing if you have CoPilot E4 or an F3 with the monthly add on or attained a copilot ISV but then you have a limited entitlement linked to the base agreement and you need to purchase additional seats but they are of a different tier which need to be upgraded etc etc etc
You sound like a real car dealer 😃
Nah. Just a bitter old bastard who spent 20+ years dealing with Microsoft sales people on their daft entitlements system.
The vanilla copilot bundled in windows is completely useless and not suitable for enterprise use …
Any company serious about productivity gain would use something else …
I am by no means a pro-AI techbro, but my company invested into making a bespoke AI solution (yes it connects to one of the big boys on the backend) and it makes a world of difference.
I think a lot of the AI hate comes from people who have never used a paid model coupled with a good frontend…
There are a lot of people with limited agency over their own work or personal lives, and are at the receiving end of other people’s decisions.
Resentment can build when they perceive outside forces impacting their lives and personal well-being negatively. Sometimes this comes to define them as a person, in a self-reinforcing spiral of doom.
For most well adjusted people in decent work and social circles, we can take a more nuanced view, being both critical and optimistic as needed, and finding satisfaction in making the world work for us.
Consider yourself privileged.
ah yes, surely that’s where the hate must be coming from
That kinda describes AI in a nutshell: Impressive, but not useful.
Azure is such a complicated mess 😔
I can’t see using voice for productive work as you need to reference what it said and check it for errors and such.
The CAD and circuit board design looks very useful
You’re right and that makes it worse as the implications settle in.
I assume you have never dine either.
I was actually an embedded systems lead for about a decade doing both
