I got a better one…put a rat in a can, place two papers with two different answers… As a question and let the rat go. Each paper is coated in delicious cheese.
Just figure out if you trust a rat…do you go for the answer an idiot picked? Or do you go for the answer that was less tasty?
Often the trick behind a lot of these ridiculous methods is they make you hope for a specific outcome, thus exposing a previously hidden desire
I had low expectations for AI, and it is even less useful than I expected.
My work procured me a copilot license and it really is disappointing. It’s wrong or overly vague most of the time, and just generally doesn’t answer questions in a useful way. Copilot in the IDE is marginally more useful but it rarely gives you an efficient answer and obviously it’s never anything novel, it’s just copy and pasting from stackoverflow answers (or questions even.)
I miss functioning web searches.
AI is filled with as much, if not more, SEO designed slop as web searches do now but it is presented as if the user clicked “I feel lucky”.
I have copilot at work and honestly it’s not worth the price.
The number of times it has created grossly inaccurate meeting notes or summary items basically means I can’t trust it to be shared with someone who wasn’t there, so it’s mostly just there as a roll the dice memory jogger for participants.
The components embedded in office apps like PowerPoint are absolutely useless, and that’s where I really wanted it to help.
I’d be more forgiving, but what MS Copilot sucks at the worst is working with Office files: PowerPoint: completely useless
Excel: useful for some tasks if I reformat all my sheets into tables, so mostly useless
Word: can’t even answer why the formatting of the file from my coworker is a mess (which is every coworker), let alone try to fix it. But it will gladly take a succinct piece of information and make it into an insufferable 50 pages of fluff. It summarizes documents well and helps with reviews.
OneNote: creating content it’s ok, but useless at retrieving info.
Outlook: It tries to help, mostly confirms that my language is may be perceived as cold and offensive. Which is good, because that was my intention.
It is surprisingly helpful with PDFs and extracting data and cleaning up formatting.
Unsurprising, it does great with CSV and other open data formats. Maybe there is a lesson here?
I’ve used co-pilot too: Not impressed. AI is largely unreliable garbage, at least at the moment.
Copilot is one of two LLMs I’ve briefly tried. It was noticeably better than Gemini was at the time, but still seemed entirely pointless. Nothing it (or Gemini) offered to do were things I wanted help with. I enjoy research and writing, so why would I outsource those things and burn down an acre of rainforest in the process?
Gemini is fucking abysmal, Google should be embarrassed.
I can think of a bunch of other things that Google should be embarrassed about, but Gemini is uniquely humiliating because of how proud they are of it and how hard they are pushing it.
Colour me surprised
No fucking way.
I’ve heard that copilot is specifically useless. Mostly gets in the way.
It says in multiple places, “do not believe the answers you get from this thing. Seriously, it’s more like a magic 8 ball than anything useful. You get what you get. Don’t come bitching to us.”
I like Copilot. [Blajah does not support downvotes.]
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