Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic
CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 12 hours agoDocument summary, quick email replies that sound coherent and professional when you have one foot out the door on a Friday, if the Org has fabric then the PowerPoint copilot can be a real time save of given me a presentation based off this outline and use some data as the source.
I find that those who are office professionals that don’t like AI most often either have expectations of perfection or don’t know how to prompt properly.
Ai excels at get you 60-70% of the way there the first time. Then you can either refine it with additional prompts or manually. Either way if it saves me time and effort on something I care nothing about then it is worth it to me.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Depending on the ask, yes. Summarize this document - usually pretty correct, if verbose and disgustingly bland like eating paste. But then it’ll say “Do you want me to make this into a powerpoint?” and you go - sure, why not - and (true story) it goes “here it is” and there’s nothing there.
And you say “uh, there’s nothing there” and it goes “oh! Sorry. Here it is” and it links to a pdf. And you say “that’s not a powerpoint” and it goes “oh! sorry you’re right. Here.” and it links to a powerpoint that’s so sparse it seems like it assembled itself from the random background radiation of the universe - and it doesn’t even say what the summary said. It’s something sort of like it but worse somehow.
And that experience never changes. That’s essentially all any AI interaction will ever be.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
The secondary use here is when you get asked in performance evaluation time how much you’re incorporating AI into your workflow. And you’d better not say “none” so you keep generating these nonsense documents and throwing them away so it appears like you’re using AI
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yeah. “How Every Business Is Screwing Itself By Requiring What It Doesn’t Understand”
CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I agree that that is an experience I have frustratingly had as well. I disagree that it won’t change. Agentic Ai allows for specialized services to be integrated. All it would take is an agent to be created that specializes in creating pptx documents and the integrated into the primary service. The capability already exists it just need to be implemented correctly.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Given the unprecedented amount of sheer capital rolling into this like an ocean falling down from space, over what, three years now? A subroutine to “make pptx” not existing doesn’t give me a ton of hope that anyone either knows what they’re doing or is able and willing to chop enough of it off to do that.
I hear it in concept, I’m just saying - it seems like such low hanging fruit it’s almost damning that it doesn’t exist.