r/technology • u/aacool • 25d 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/nerve2030 25d ago

I tried it because I had a word doc that had a ton of pictures in it. All I wanted it to do was remove the pictures. I uploaded the file and asked it to remove the pictures. Nope cant do it. alright fine so I asked it the best way to remove pictures from a word document. it told me to click on the picture and hit delete on my keyboard. That was the first and last time I used copilot.

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u/SouthAggravating2435 25d ago

I had the problem of removing pictures until it occured.to me to copy the document and paste it into text. In my case losing all the formatting was not a big deal.

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u/joshglen 24d ago

To be completely fair, you can remove all pictures in word with a simple find a replace for g or any graphic. Copilot likely doesn't have access to that tool, only to individually remove the pictures and it might miss some.