Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
tekato@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Why wouldn’t they want one? If it’s a tool their employees want, they should provide it.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yeah… You do it, but do you think the UK government does?
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Tools that decrease accuracy should not be provided to government employees
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
Not if you’re defying safety regulations.