I really wanted to make copilot work. Spent hours and hours hoping I was the problem and I could prompt it well enough to provide something useful in return. At this point I'd rather have the old Microsoft Paperclip help me.
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I tried to use M365 (CoPilot) with a seemingly simple task - take a Word doc with a form and populate it with some example data. It took several minutes to think, and then fifteen or so more to complete.
Strange, I thought that paying more and more to get, in most cases, less and less was a good business move.
That's because out of all the slop canons, it's the only one that just doesnt work
I genuinely think AI is useful for about 2% more adoption of things than was going on before. 2% more coders, 2% more artists (for whatever that’s worth which isn’t a lot), just 2%.
LOL! People just need to uninstall copilot immediately.
What's even behind it? I always assumed openAI given the early investment deal. Is Microsoft an AI vendor with their own frontier models?!
Just "upgraded" to win11. The first thing I did was uninstall 365 and copilot. As long as I draw breath I will never use the crap.
O and one drive... Never.
The thing with Copilot is... it's pretty useless. I mean, i am pro AI, i use Mistral daily for various tasks and toyed with others like ChatGPT and Grok, but Copilot is surely the least capable of the big models.
Second upvoted person in this /c/technology thread who thinks Copilot is a model and not an interface to several other models and literally naming models you can use in Copilot.
I don't know if ignorance of the technology you're commenting on is considered a plus only if it's AI.
It’s more about the harness. Copilots harness is worse than all of the others.
Even trying the same model that copilot uses, copilot is worse. That includes all of the 6 or 7 different MS Copilots I’ve used.
Ditto. I use Codex and Claude Code on a daily basis. Copilot feel like it's from the 80s, a few generations behind
Microsoft CoPilot 365 is not GitHub Copilot. I'll give you a pass on Microsoft's incredibly bad naming policies.