… tests from earlier this year found that AI agents failed to complete tasks up to 70% of the time, making them almost entirely redundant as a workforce replacement tool. At best, they're a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative.
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Copilots numbers likely that high merely because it rides along with Office365... I tried using it a few times, and was completely useless. Even failed at sorting a spreadsheet with a few parameters
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My employer is all in on Microsoft, copilot is terrible, it can't even find a word in a document. Cntl+F find's it no problem.
Now when I have a tech issue that I need an answer for, the bing AI generally gets me a detailed answer on the first try. But it's my understanding that bings AI is just a reskined ChatGPT.
HP: if your non original printer cartridge fails 7 out of 10 times, is it really a savings?
Microsoft: we want 80% of our work to be handled by these ais that fail 70% of the time.
Also fuck HP.
And Microsoft.
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What's with all the shills in that comment section? Yeesh.
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Gihub died for this.
I hope all the money thrown at this "AI" (misnomer, IMHO - it's really just extremely overwrought pattern matching) causes at least some significant humbling (if not outright downfall) of some tech giants. I haven't programmed in a couple decades, and yet even I could tell they weren't gonna get to AGI offa this crap - I can't believe how badly some of these supposed techies fell for their own hype.
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Congrats to all the insiders are Microsoft who were able to make money off a hype cycle. They'll fall for the next one too.
Comments in the post contain so much cope.
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They could have saved so much time, money, and reputation if they had just listened when absolutely everyone told them to fuck right off with that "AI" bullshit. No one wants it, no one needs it, no one likes it. On the other hand the healthy bump in linux market share is a nice trend I hope to see continue.
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I've been tasked with getting more copilot automation integrated at my job. After a bunch of research on security, governance, app Lifecycle, and the complexities to get that setup properly, I brought pages of notes to the manager in charge. I expressed how expensive it is, how the product is awful out of the box, and how we don't have any defined use cases. She asked me if it's so complicated and expensive, how are other companies doing it. I told her I don't think there are many companies that have really gone in on agentic. I think 99% of use cases is people using copilot as a search engine. I'm going to be sharing this article even if it's filled with bias.
This makes me happy!
Yes 🖕 you and 🖕 your AI integrations, Microsoft.
- But what if we FORCE them to use it??
They should add it to TVs with no way to disable it and no consent
The problem is that it's a truly shitty implementation because it can't actually do anything. It will tell you how to do things, but it won't actually do a task you would think it's suited for.
"Build it and they will come" indeed.
This is the way. Tell ‘em where to stick it.
It kind of reminds me of some kinds of Christians that believe people will convert if they just tell people about Jesus. As if we've never heard of Jesus and the Bible before. We know. We just don't believe.
At least this time around they scaled back instead of doubling down on marketing.
Progress???
I want a local only AI where my research about breast size doesn't end up in the wrong hands.
When copilot was added to my work computer and we got a big email announcement I wanted to see what it would say about some pointed questions about our industry, but in the end I gave up because it failed to even work enough to see what weird shit it would say
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If they’d just advertised it as a handy little feature I might have used it, but the way they’re constantly ramming it down your throat makes me so suspicious that I just don’t want to touch it.
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Window’s real problem is not the quality of their model or implementation, don’t get me wrong they’re bad but not really any worse in regards to usability or usefulness.
The real issue is that Google can implement it in a way where it’s difficult to turn off or avoid using. Microsoft can’t really do that, no matter how hard they try, people can choose to just ignore the features, Google can just make them appear and run without user’s choosing to engage with them.
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