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CoPilot is a good feature and will be built into every major desktop OS (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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Pressing the copilot button to instantly bring up a text box where you can interact with an LLM is amazing UI/UX for productivity. LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).

If this had been released with Agentic features that allow it to search the web, use toolscripts like fetching time/date and stuff from the OS, use recall, properly integrate with the microsoft app suite. It would be game changing.

We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years.

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[–] [S] -1 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

I think you're getting confused by the marketing. The marketing makes it out to be this useful thing that will do your work for you which it cant. It doesnt have features its just an LLM. You ask question, it returns answer, its really not that much more. The productivity increase comes from people getting fast answers to their questions and quick templates for written work.

I'm finding it funny how many people disagree with the line about information retrieval. We get a ton of untrustworthy information all the time and we know there is a chance of it being wrong and we weigh the consequences vs the extra effort it will take to verify. If im about to stake my career on a fact im not going to rely on chatGPT but if I need to see some popular UI frameworks then chatGPT is fine. If its wrong thats fine there is nothing riding on it I just move on and check the next one.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    It doesn’t retrieve information, it’s a txt prediction based on what “might” sound like a correct response. It makes shit up and doesn’t increase productivity. Literally has been proven countless times.

    Here’s the lasted example: https://thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/concept-artists-in-games-say-generative-ai-references-only-make-their-jobs-harder/

    And that’s not even touching on the environmental impact or the oligarchs pushing propaganda into these clankers or them generating porn. See Grok.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 10 months ago

    I think we have an easier job determining right away if humans are lying about something

    I think we are equally bad at determining lying between humans and AI. The people who are getting fooled by AI answers would click the top result on google and get fooled there as well so I dont see it as a massive decrease in info quality even though I can admit it is a decrease.

    So it sounds like AI is only really useful for your line wider area of work

    There are plenty of jobs where it will be more and less useful but my claim is that its generally still useful for majority of professions/people as a quick way to retrieve info via natural language querying. The results are mostly accurate and can include sources if you ask. Thats good enough for most people and most questions. Sure if you need to dig through docs or reference the exact paper then you can search google and get it yourself.

    I dont think Teachers is a good example, teachers use it all the time and seem to really like it, idk what structural engineers do so i cant really comment. But even if the engineer has no use I still say its a good feature because not every feature of an operating system has to be used by 100% of people. Windows screen read is a good feature but I dont use it. The share button is a good feature even if I dont use it. Carplay is a good feature even if I dont use it etc.

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