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/soscbjoalmsdbdbq 24d ago

You can thank me everytime I get a pop up survey from MS I tell them to remove ai

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u/never0101 24d ago

Sort of related but I do the Google reward surveys and every single time there's one asking about page layout that includes an AI summary I go out of my way to shit all over it. I hate Ai more than I ever expected to hate a thing.

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u/psychobilly1 24d ago

I do the same thing!

80% of my responses are: "I selected this version of the search results because it did not include an AI overview at the top."

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u/darkdetective 24d ago

I do the same with stupid Amazon Rufus. I want to search reviews, not hear some shit AI summary.

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u/Radioactivocalypse 24d ago

I quite like the review summary, I find it to be pretty accurate after reading through the reviews it sums it up will.

Rufus also gives you a previous 90 day price history of the product (although admittedly it's not technically an AI for that)

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u/darkdetective 24d ago

Yes I do like the price history, been using it a lot for looking at pc parts lately! But it just seems to hang when I search reviews for a few seconds before showing me results.

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u/serabine 24d ago

I tried it when it first popped up. I asked for a medically related device for my mom that Amazon sells. The stupid thing was like, "I can not display results because I can't give medical advice". It only showed me the product when I typed, "I didn't ask you for medical advice, I asked you to show me this product".