Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Our self-hosted ones are quite good and get the job done. We use them a lot for research, and it seems to do a better job than most search engines. We also link it to internal docs and it works pretty well for that too.

        If you run a smaller model at home because you have limited RAM, yeah, you’ll have less effective models. We can’t run the top models on our hardware, but we can run much larger models than most hobbyists. We’ve compared against the larger commercial models, and they work well, if little slowly.

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    • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah… You do it, but do you think the UK government does?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        My point is they could if they were concerned about data leaks.

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• Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tools that decrease accuracy should not be provided to government employees

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not if you’re defying safety regulations.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The employees should know what’s within regulations and what’s not.

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