Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThen maybe it’s not useful for you. That doesn’t mean AI isn’t useful for a number of other roles.
Case in point, as per the article, AI is pretty useless for regular office work
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.