People are using AI a lot, or people were already using programs with recently added AI features a lot?
Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot
Submitted 3 weeks ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
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ceenote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I see you know corporate math well
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It’s in fucking notepad
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Kind of like internet explorer bundled with Office back in the day….
zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
If it helps, you can use https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ to stop the auto-AI inserts.
Raglan@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
They renamed “Office 365” to “Microsoft 365 Copilot”.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It’s disabled on my company laptop. Even though the laptop has a Copilot button, replacing CTRL button.
rmuk@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“A lot” is a great, quantifiable metric there, computer man! 👍👍👍📈💯🍾
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And are these people using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot in the room with us now, Satya?
geekwithsoul@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
No, you wouldn’t know them - they go to a different high school. In Canada.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are these people that only you can see telling you to burn everything down again, Satya?
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
OS takes a screenshot every five seconds. CEO: “Damn, look how much it is being used!” /s
GalacticTaterTot@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, by accident.
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well yeah, you rename a core product to Copilot and suddenly you have tons of users
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They have like 7 different, separate, copilots 😆
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
You mean Word, Excel, and so on…
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
spy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yeah, this smells a lot like Texas Sharpshooting. Figure out what people use, stuff Copilot in there then proudly present the target that you drew after hitting something.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man this guy looks like a husk of curses.
PolarKraken@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Fuckin lol. Lotta these old greedy pricks starting to converge, in visage and thought, on - “well, there has to be a first lich, after all…”
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No, they’re not. 90% of the “use” is them forcing it on us.
I just tried using my voice to call my son on the phone, and Co-Pilot answered, explained what it could do for me, and finally made the call. It took at least 5 times longer than usual to just dial a number. I didn’t ask for Co-Pilot, I barely can stand the old way, this new one really, really sucks, and again, I didn’t ask for this, it forced itself on my life.
Fuck this AI shit, complicating everything just so some CEOs can rationalize their stupid bonuses.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Whether they like it or not.
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I mean if it auto generates the summary and all by just opening a word documents then yeah it’s being “used” but human in the chair is just ignoring that as another bloat
rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Won’t it just reinstall itself after the next update?
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In my experience, no if properly debloated.
hexabs@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Create a loop of copilot talking with itself using the copilot CLI 😉
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks 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.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is literally just wasting electricity to justify the existence of massive datacenters full of nvidia videocards.
rmrf@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yeah cause when I instinctively click the Microsoft learn link below the Azure error it takes me to copilot instead of documentation.
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
No, we just can’t delete it.
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I edited my registry to disable it.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I just uninstalled my outlook becauss of forced copilot garbage and forcing me to the cloud when I just wanted to open a pdf. I was enraged and now I am done with all microslop garbage. I used to have an annual subscription too.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because they keep cramming it in all my apps at work and every time I load my email, it tries to open Copilot?
PolarKraken@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
They utterly trashed their OS, a globally ~dominant cash cow, at an astonishing pace. By completely, eagerly jumping the gun on exciting new tech, maybe the single above-all “thing you never do with anything even like a cash cow of any shape or size”.
As in, that is known - viscerally, below the level of words or even thought, as if that knowledge originates from another realm - by anyone who has ever actually been directly responsible for any valuable piece of technology.
The depth of ignorance and really just flat-out juvenile naivety (fueled by naked greed) is something I’ll probably be thinking about for the rest of my life. Truly amazing, just historically, almost mythically foolish.
This dude has been locked into this outcome for a long time, and it’s getting increasingly obvious how disastrous it is.
There are no dances left for him to perform except “it’s really not that bad!”
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Probably GitHub Copilot.
The rest just sucks.
SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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!
shittydwarf@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Doubt
XGaryGhost@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh no you should not say slop it hurts feelings.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Clanker-wankers don’t have feelings
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Hurt shareholders, you mean?