Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoThen maybe it’s not useful for you. That doesn’t mean AI isn’t useful for a number of other roles.
I’m a software developer and find its code generation to be awful, but I also find that it’s great at looking up technical information. Maybe I’m looking for a library to accomplish a task, and I want to compare features. Or maybe I’m having trouble finding usage examples for a relatively niche library. Those are task the AI is great at, because it can look at tons of blog posts, stack overflow questions, etc, and generate me something reasonable that I can verify against official docs.
If my workflow was. mostly email and internal documentation, yeah, AI wouldn’t be that useful. If my workflow relies on existing documentation that’s perhaps a little hard to find or a bit poor, then AI is great. Find the right use case and it can save time.
Jhex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Case in point, as per the article, AI is pretty useless for regular office work
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Regular office work” is a pretty broad category. Yeah, it’s probably not useful in retrieving records for someone or processing forms, but it should be useful for anything that requires research.
Jhex@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
not sure there is any research done by people using office suite…
it sounds like you are conflating LLM in general with the crappy copilot that MS offers with the office suite
an LLM could be useful for research of large (large) datasets… Copilot would not be
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I don’t know much about copilot, but some quick research shows it uses GPT-5 for the chat feature. I assume that’s what’s meant by the average queries in the article.