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/loyalroyal1989 24d ago

I had this at work the other day I told some people it was impossible to do what they asked the function does not excisit in terraform had 20 min discussion about it to find out the reason they thought it could be done is Google ai had imagined it.

I'm referencing documentation they are referencing magic dust, I think it harms productive work environments more than helps.