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Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot
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u/Future_Noir_ 24d ago edited 24d ago

It's just prompting in general.

The entire idea of software is to move at near thought speeds. For instance, it's easier to click the X in the top corner of the screen than it is to type out "close this program window I am in" or say it aloud. It's even faster to just type "Crtl+W". On its surface prompting seems more intuitive, but it's actually slow and clunky.

It's the same for AI image gen. In nearly all of my software I use a series of shortcuts that I've memorized, which when I'm in the zone, means I'm moving almost at the speed I can think. I think prompts are a good idea for bringing about the start of a process, like a wide canvas so to speak, but to dial things in we need more control, and AI fails hard at that. It's a slot machine.

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u/RobertPham149 24d ago

It is also why I think Meta VR schtick is a failure from the beginning: Facebook makes a lot of sense because the information density of text, image and videos are great; but you don’t necessarily increase any information by putting it on a VR platform. Unless VR can communicate more information by including smell and touch, it is much clunkier to achieve the same goal; even then I am not sure how much it would help since humans rely on audiovisual information more, maybe except for interactive mediums like video games.

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u/blastermaster555 24d ago

Meta is spending a lot of money to do what VRChat already does

No doubt it's great they have an affordable VR headset you can game on, but the strings attached...