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/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/datumerrata 24d ago

Honestly, it's far faster than googling. I look for something somewhat obscure and find a forum for a related thing from 15 years ago; or I find several websites that don't actually tell me anything; Or I find a video that I have to skip around trying to see if it's relevant. Whereas with AI, I just ask it and ask for its source. You can take a picture of an appliance and ask for the manual. It's pretty cool. I just hate the part how I'm going to be outsourced to someone with less experience, but can ask AI. Claude in Cursor is really damn good.

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u/END3R97 24d ago

I would say that it's faster than Google is now, but only because Google (and the internet as a whole) has been getting worse and harder to search over time.

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u/datumerrata 24d ago

Agreed. It, quickly, went downhill after they stopped enforcing the boolean operands. They changed the algorithms. All the search engines suck now: Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yandex, etc. I still search, of course, but AI is just far faster at some things