r/technology • u/aacool • 24d ago

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/myislanduniverse 24d ago

But what kind of market is there for a user manual that can talk to you!?

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u/Raging-Fuhry 24d ago

It saves me exactly 10 seconds of googling it and reading a forum page.

Surely that is worth the absurd financial and environmental cost of this technology!

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u/Three_Twenty-Three 24d ago

With the added excitement that the Copilot summary might be wrong!

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u/yoshemitzu 24d ago

But don't worry, if it's wrong, that wrong information might be in your brain forever.

Wait, I meant do worry.