Submitted 11 months ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Article - The copilots that Microsoft has created are undeniably impressive, and I believe that they represent the sort of technological change that only comes along once in a generation.
Many have expressed concern about Copilot putting people out of work or causing other economic harm. While such fears may ultimately prove to be warranted, I believe that there is another potential problem associated with using Copilot that nobody is talking about yet. This is the problem of overreliance.
I absolutely love using copilot as my initial search method. It’s not a guru, and you can’t take it on its word. It’s a fancy search engine and thats it to me.
copilot is just horrendously bad. it actually makes me less productive. Microsoft’s innate ability to completly fuck up AI is honestly remarkable.
Any alternatives you might recommend?
I find perplexity is pretty good
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Short version: This is the same bullshit that is spewed every time something new comes out. If you ever heard that your calculator will prevent you from being able to do math or your IDE will prevent you from knowing how to write a function signature and so forth, it is that all over again.
And the reality is? Maybe it will. But that is progress. I doubt most people know how to make butter or can preserves. And they don’t need to be cause technology has reached the point that that is an unnecessary skill.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Butter is just vigorously shaken cow juice
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Just gotta give it a good wank, er, churn.
Technus@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Your calculator is much less likely to suddenly decide that 2+2=5 though.
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Degrees versus radians. Not checking imperial versus metric units when you enter stuff. Button gets stuck. And so forth
Like with anything, you need to be able to glance at the output and say “that looks right”