$30/mo/user? Wtf? What are people even using Copilot for? Every single time I’ve tried an AI language model it gives me laughably wrong and bad answers. I would need it to be 99%+ accurate to bother trusting it; especially when just searching an answer and finding a decent source isn’t that lengthy.
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floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
$20 US per user per month, on top of the price of Microsoft 365 seems a bit steep. Here in Canada for a family of four that would come to $132 per month including tax. Not sure how many people will be willing to pay that.
Neato@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
WhiteHotaru@feddit.de 5 months ago
Business users are the target group. If your job needs you to reply to a lot of mails and the Myomen you press the reply button AI creates an answer for you, you only need to edit in some details, the time safed will probably be worth more than 30$ a month.
Other use cases are internal communications. I know intranet software where you just promt a topic, a tone and what department you like from and it will create a news for you. Again not perfect, but safes you from staring at a blank page.
Neato@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
I can hear the HR, PR and security teams screaming from here just at that idea.
At best this would evolve into smart templates. But we can do that now. And we don’t actually need that since the few emails we send that are repetitive we just grab from our drafts/sent folder.
spiderman@ani.social 5 months ago
I have been using Phind for debug and Perplexity for asking questions. Takes time to use two at once but it does the job.
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve seen estimates that it costs $30+ dollars per month per user to run these AI models. And that doesn’t even include how expensive it is to build and train these systems. I imagine this is what will ruin the appeal of AI for a lot of people, as right now we’re in the honeymoon phase where a bunch of it is free or low cost but as they raise prices it’ll get less appealing.
snooggums@kbin.social 5 months ago
Nobody will want to pay, so the end result will be ads interspersed with the output.
Just kidding, they will include ads even if everyone chose to pay.
LWD@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This makes Kagi look reasonable
Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I forgot people are paying for msft 365. 10$ per month is kinda crazy for software I use maybe occasionally (considering most of the functionality is already available with Google Docs, and OpenOffice gets the job done for offline usage).
thejml@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Honestly the only reason I’d pay for O365 is for the included Cloud storage. A yearly plan is $99.99, and includes up to 6TB of one drive storage, which isn’t a bad deal for Cloud storage if you need it.
lupec@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Also worth noting they’re one of the very few cloud providers I’m aware of with regional pricing, the annual family plan’s bang for your buck is simply unbeatable where I live. Not an apples to apples comparison but to put it into perspective, my 1TB Hetzner storage box runs me about the same as my 365 family plan with 1/6th of the storage.
glimse@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hell yeah brother me too.
As an added bonus, I no longer have to crack Office for my family. And my sister doesn’t panic when her phone dies anymore.
Neato@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
It’s really just businesses and people who use Office a LOT. Pretty much my entire job is used in MS Office.
Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Do you use the cloud version?
Neato@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
Both. We have installed programs as well as OneDrive and cloud versions that can open documents on the cloud.
pycorax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The cloud storage is a pretty good value when you use the family plan as others have said. But having collaborative editing support with the full functionality of Office is very useful. I’m aware that GDocs can do it but if you’re regularly writing documents, Office has a much more intuitive interface and more advanced features that I can be very useful.
The bundled 60 international Skype minutes are also very useful when planning trips overseas.