Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
tekato@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t see where a government would need a chatbot. Anyways, chances are that half the staff was already using some form of LLM before this trial.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Why wouldn’t they want one? If it’s a tool their employees want, they should provide it.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The point is that this is all happening in a cloud. One that is probably located in the US. Not a good thing for a non-US government to send potentially confidential or even secret data to.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It doesn’t have to, you can run LLMs locally. We do at my org, and we only have a few dozen people using it, and it’s running on relatively modest hardware (Mac Mini for smaller models, Mac Studio for larger models).
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, shitty toy ones. This here is about productivity, not about a hobby. And not even real state-of-the-art models were able to actually give a productivity advantage.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Yeah… You do it, but do you think the UK government does?
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Tools that decrease accuracy should not be provided to government employees
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Whether it improves or reduces employees’ accuracy and efficiency depends on how the employee uses their tools. They should be trusted to pick tools that help them do their job more effectively.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Not if you’re defying safety regulations.