Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot
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Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh no you should not say slop it hurts feelings.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Clanker-wankers don’t have feelings
devolution@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Copilot is such trash. Used it with my daughters project on Amerigo Vespucci. Copilot linked me to Christopher Columbus’ journeys. Gemini linked me to the actual information and even in Geminis own search results, the Microsoft one was wrong.
I hated using AI but come on. If you are going to destroy the planet micro slop, at least do it well.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Man this guy looks like a husk of curses.
Kissaki@feddit.org 10 hours ago
OS takes a screenshot every five seconds. CEO: “Damn, look how much it is being used!” /s
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People are using AI a lot, or people were already using programs with recently added AI features a lot?
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
Day 1: We have 1 million Excel users.
Day 2: we added Copilot to Excel, we have 1 million new CoPilot users!
bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I see you know corporate math well
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
One of my bosses was screen sharing with me this week and had co-pilot up in Excel. I don’t know what he was doing with it. he started fucking around with it while he was screen sharing, just doing something unrelated to what we were talking about. I know he was just trying to bait me into asking what was going on.
fuck that, I don’t care, I know you love your AI, I don’t give a shit, it’s not useful for what I do and I don’t want to talk about how it can almost do something kind of right
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Isn’t Copilot integrated with the Windows taskbar search?
I think the sole reason Copilot is used at all is because they’ve forced it in applications it has no place in, and requires it remain on by default.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have never liked having a search box in the taskbar. My taskbar is for pinned programs, open programs, volume, Ethernet/wifi, and a clock. Nothing more.
You can remove copilot from windows 11 completely now…with an outside program.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s in fucking notepad
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The original Copilot is GitHub Copilot which is a coding assistant and it’s very popular and useful for developers. I think most of the paying copilot customers and usage are coming from there.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
It only makes sense economically when they have as many people as possible using it and giving feedback.
Where feedback can be concealed, like how your actions after requesting advice correlate with it, or whether you clarify your request and how many times.
ChessThoughts@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Kind of like internet explorer bundled with Office back in the day….
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’d be my guess.
I have never once went out of my way to use Gemini, for example, but having it appear in every other Google search with some lying bullshit to spread is probably driving up their engagement numbers.
I really should stop using Google. But can’t use DDG either because they just use Bing and their own AI service as well, and so does Kagi.
CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 1 day ago
If it helps, you can use https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ to stop the auto-AI inserts.
Raglan@piefed.social 1 day ago
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Kagi AI is opt-in. As in, you don’t go out of your way to use it, you won’t.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
DDG uses its own basket of search indexes, Bing is now under 10% or so of total index usage in the big 26. Also yeah, noai ddg is awesome.
Saeveo@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
They renamed “Office 365” to “Microsoft 365 Copilot”.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“A lot” is a great, quantifiable metric there, computer man! 👍👍👍📈💯🍾
Kissaki@feddit.org 9 hours ago
The article mentions concrete numbers for the different Copilot products.
A Microsoft spokesperson tells TechCrunch that this number has grown to 150 million total.
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
150 million, what?
Users, prompts, prompts per second, accounts, installs, subscriptions bought?
Numbers on their own have no meaning. This is still rubbish trying to cosplay as information.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Well yeah, you rename a core product to Copilot and suddenly you have tons of users
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They have like 7 different, separate, copilots 😆
rekabis@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I just rebuilt my Win 11 Pro Workstation setup (yes, it is the version for stupidly high core and thread counts), and one of the first things I did was to bodily eviscerate anything AI in the system. Right after gleefully ripping out all the telemetry and spyware.
yata@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Won’t it just reinstall itself after the next update?
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
In my experience, no if properly debloated.
hexabs@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You stopped a bit short on your delete spree I guess.
But then again, I don’t know your workflow and needs; so I’m glad it works for you.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
You stopped a bit short on your delete spree I guess.
No, that was just the first two steps. Just on the “rip shit out” category, I typically churn through at least three separate tools, usually in this order:
- Win10Privacy
- Win11Debloat
- Winslop
I mean, sure, Windows can take as little as a half hour to “install”. But on a personal rig (which also includes my own workflow software and personal data shoehorned back into place), I take another 24-48 hours to gleefully beat it into submission and install secondary programs that bypass the warts it has acquired over the years.
And as a benchmark, XP needed only about 6-8hrs of extra work to reach the same threshold of data migration, workflow software, and improved usability (I was an NT fanboy, IMO the primary improvement of XP over 2000 was the start menu).
If we add up the AI push, the spyware/telemetry explosion, the recent attempts to force the use of a Microsoft Account as the default login, and the massive bloating and instability of Windows in general, it’s slowly becoming time for even non-technical, everyday users to move to Linux.
GaryGhost@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I use the office apps for college and I avoid the AI, its annoying, it pops up and im usually saying " wtf is this" no i need a blank document
GalacticTaterTot@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yea, sure. They’re unwilling “active users” because they accidentally click on some copilot garbage that’s been shoved into every inch of Windows. While I see plenty of folks using various AI tools, none of those tools are copilot.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I have it on my work laptop, because unfortunately my company bought into the hype. Every once in a while I ask it how to do a thing, just to see if it will help. So far copilot has been wrong 100% of the time.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I have to give it this much respect: When I logged in to office.com (for work) recently and was confronted with the Copilot chat-box, I asked it how to disable Copilot. It was honest, and told me that it’s not possible because this is Microsoft’s new product strategy. Then, I asked how I could never see Copilot again.
It (no joke!) told me to install Linux.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s disabled on my company laptop. Even though the laptop has a Copilot button, replacing CTRL button.
rmuk@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
Yeah, I fucking hate that. At least the Windows/Magic/Menu button has a conceptual equivalent in every major OS, so it does something Start Menu adjacent, but the Copilot button is a really arrogant overstep, like when you get a TV with a Netflix button on the remote.
rmrf@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Yeah cause when I instinctively click the Microsoft learn link below the Azure error it takes me to copilot instead of documentation.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And are these people using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot in the room with us now, Satya?
geekwithsoul@piefed.social 1 day ago
No, you wouldn’t know them - they go to a different high school. In Canada.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are these people that only you can see telling you to burn everything down again, Satya?
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, by accident.
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah, MS Teams (not my choice) had a pop-up that said that in order for a meeting to be recorded, I needed to accept that my video and what I say will be used by Microsoft for various purposes including training copilot.
So, that counts at me using copilot, right? /s
spy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Didn’t they add copilot to notepad, to the file Explorer, to windows I assume as a non removable service (internet explorer anyone?), and to who knows how many more places?
Whatever metrics they claim to have are for sure not inflated.
If people are indeed using copilot a lot then great: good for you, please shut up, you don’t need me on-board.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ohh, that would be all the developers at jobs with daily AI use mandates running scheduled scripts to make it look like they are using AI.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This is literally just wasting electricity to justify the existence of massive datacenters full of nvidia videocards.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
I ask copilot bullshit that I don’t even read sometimes just so it looks like I’m using ai more. Because my employer demands it and will start tracking AI usage for perf evals!
Great system we have going, here.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Create a loop of copilot talking with itself using the copilot CLI 😉
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
This is slowly becoming very much like USSR.
I once liked saying that with capitalism and computers one can build anything, including what people rejecting capitalism (and sometimes rejecting computers) can.
So-o, yes. Anything. Including that.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Probably GitHub Copilot.
The rest just sucks.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Because they keep cramming it in all my apps at work and every time I load my email, it tries to open Copilot?
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Whether they like it or not.
ikidd@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Hey, Satya. You aren’t fooling anyone and you don’t have the knack of bald-faced lying like Kristi and Donny.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I used it for my first time this year. For like a week. That was all.
Kissaki@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Then you’re part of “monthly active Copilot users”
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Indeed. Haven’t touched it since
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Since they renamed Microsoft Office to Copilot, they have millions of Copilot users. It’s almost as popular as Google+ when Google made all Gmail users Google+ users.
khanh@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Because Slopya has been shoving it down our throats everywhere. Office, Windows, GitHub,…
SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Copilot: forces an AI summary at the top of every word document, intercepts every copy and paste, is injected in every search result
Stays: People love this shit, they use it all the time!
ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 19 hours ago
Lol, no
Zannsolo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I use it for .net syntax and .net lib references I figure if it’s good for anything it’s that. I also used it to write a soulless email about communication and accountability I had to send a dev after he just set himself out of office for 4 days and missed his deliverable deadline.
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
It still hallucinates MSSQL functions, so I wouldn’t assume it will be great at .Net
0oWow@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Well, if you count its uninstall feature, sure.
gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Money for old rope-pilot