Pressing the copilot button to instantly bring up a text box where you can interact with an LLM is amazing UI/UX for productivity. LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).

If this had been released with Agentic features that allow it to search the web, use toolscripts like fetching time/date and stuff from the OS, use recall, properly integrate with the microsoft app suite. It would be game changing.

We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Honestly if you think it’s a good feature I challenge you to make a few short youtube tutorials demonstrating how to use it’s helpful features. This will help to spread awareness, and helps convince people with evidence.

    I have heard a lot of (what i think is) hot air from the microsoft head AI guy about how much it streamlines professional life and I would love if that was actually true, but I can’t help feeling i would already know about these wondrous features if that was in fact the case. Because people would be gushing about them.

    We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years

    That seems like a good argument. People went crazy over siri and such.

    LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).

    I’m not sure when people ever need to retrieve information thet doesn’t need to be correct, in a professional context. But thanks for being honest i guess.

    • Auth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      13 days ago

      I think you’re getting confused by the marketing. The marketing makes it out to be this useful thing that will do your work for you which it cant. It doesnt have features its just an LLM. You ask question, it returns answer, its really not that much more. The productivity increase comes from people getting fast answers to their questions and quick templates for written work.

      I’m finding it funny how many people disagree with the line about information retrieval. We get a ton of untrustworthy information all the time and we know there is a chance of it being wrong and we weigh the consequences vs the extra effort it will take to verify. If im about to stake my career on a fact im not going to rely on chatGPT but if I need to see some popular UI frameworks then chatGPT is fine. If its wrong thats fine there is nothing riding on it I just move on and check the next one.

      • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        13 days ago

        It doesn’t retrieve information, it’s a txt prediction based on what “might” sound like a correct response. It makes shit up and doesn’t increase productivity. Literally has been proven countless times.

        Here’s the lasted example: https://thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/concept-artists-in-games-say-generative-ai-references-only-make-their-jobs-harder/

        And that’s not even touching on the environmental impact or the oligarchs pushing propaganda into these clankers or them generating porn. See Grok.

      • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        We get a ton of untrustworthy information all the time and we know there is a chance of it being wrong and we weigh the consequences vs the extra effort it will take to verify

        I think we have an easier job determining right away if humans are lying about something, and humans generally own up to being unsure about things. On the other hand, AI seems to be designed with an intention to be infallible, as it doesn’t even give an estimate as to how sure it is that it’s information is correct.

        If a human in an organisation lies/says incorrect things a lot, they get fired.

        If im about to stake my career on a fact im not going to rely on chatGPT but if I need to see some popular UI frameworks then chatGPT is fine. If its wrong thats fine there is nothing riding on it I just move on and check the next one.

        So it sounds like AI is only really useful for your line wider area of work, that being anything programming focused, and therefore you’re thinking of a very specific type of information to get fetched - templates to build off of. I hope you can see why it was bad to generalise in your initial response; someone working with historical or political facts, a structural engineer working on bridges, or a teacher, can’t rely on GPT to get them the info they work with.

        • Auth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          11·
          11 days ago

          I think we have an easier job determining right away if humans are lying about something

          I think we are equally bad at determining lying between humans and AI. The people who are getting fooled by AI answers would click the top result on google and get fooled there as well so I dont see it as a massive decrease in info quality even though I can admit it is a decrease.

          So it sounds like AI is only really useful for your line wider area of work

          There are plenty of jobs where it will be more and less useful but my claim is that its generally still useful for majority of professions/people as a quick way to retrieve info via natural language querying. The results are mostly accurate and can include sources if you ask. Thats good enough for most people and most questions. Sure if you need to dig through docs or reference the exact paper then you can search google and get it yourself.

          I dont think Teachers is a good example, teachers use it all the time and seem to really like it, idk what structural engineers do so i cant really comment. But even if the engineer has no use I still say its a good feature because not every feature of an operating system has to be used by 100% of people. Windows screen read is a good feature but I dont use it. The share button is a good feature even if I dont use it. Carplay is a good feature even if I dont use it etc.