Maybe I’m the only one but I’ve yet to find anything that Copilot is good enough at to make me want to pay $20 a month.
Microsoft launches a Pro plan for Copilot
Submitted 11 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/15/microsoft-launches-a-pro-plan-for-copilot/
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Buelldozer@lemmy.today 11 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Copilot with gpt4 on the copilot bing app is so crap if you ask if it is copilot or using gpt4 it sill straight up tell you it is not and its just bing in chatmode which it considers seperate from the copilot chat Feature.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
You’re not the only one.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Codename “clippie”. LOL 😆😂.
Reygle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idiot magnet deployed, sir!
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
hold with unit thinkpad.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve been using heygpt.chat to interact with GPT. Chats are stored locally (front-end sends requests directly to openAI, no servers in the middle) and I’ve never spent more than $4 in a month, usually under $2. If you make occasional use of GPT and don’t mind lacking the integrations into other services, I’d recommend it.
replicat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can this do web searches though?
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
yes, via plugins. I’ve only used it once or twice though
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft evidently envisions Copilot, the umbrella brand for its portfolio of AI-powered, content-generating technologies, becoming a significant future revenue line-item.
But given the enormous cost of running GenAI models in the cloud, getting Copilot from expenditure to reliable revenue generator will require sustained — and large-scale, ideally — growth.
And they have priority access to the newest GenAI models underpinning Copilot, including OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo, for what Microsoft claims is better performance during peak times.
Unveiled in November, Copilot Studio lets users build their own chatbots and plugins and conduct fine-tuning with first-party company data.
Microsoft’s attention might be turning toward paid Copilot plans, but the company’s not completely neglecting free users.
In the first half of 2024, Copilot will expand to Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.
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floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 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 $132 per month including tax. Not sure how many people will be willing to pay that.
Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I forgot people are paying for msft 365. 10$ 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 11 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.
Neato@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
It’s really just businesses and people who use Office a LOT. Pretty much my entire job is used in MS Office.
pycorax@lemmy.world 11 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.
Neato@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
$30/mo/user? Wtf? What are people even using Copilot for? Every single time I’ve tried an AI language model it gives me laughably wrong and bad answers. I would need it to be 99%+ accurate to bother trusting it; especially when just searching an answer and finding a decent source isn’t that lengthy.
WhiteHotaru@feddit.de 11 months ago
Business users are the target group. If your job needs you to reply to a lot of mails and the Myomen you press the reply button AI creates an answer for you, you only need to edit in some details, the time safed will probably be worth more than 30$ 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.
spiderman@ani.social 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
This makes Kagi look reasonable