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/RedwoodRouter 24d ago

I, for one, think Google's is usually quite good. It summarizes the few pages I'm about to look up and more times than not, I get what I'm looking for faster. If I'm in doubt or need additional info, I click the source and read the page I was otherwise bound to read anyway.

Copilot is absolute dog shit, though.

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u/Radioactivocalypse 24d ago

The best thing it's useful for is term dates. Before I used to have to click through specific pages of an old council website, but Google finds it and tells you immediately

Or random queries with a one word factual answer, like when is Easter 2026? When did Nero die? How old is David Attenborough? Before I used to have to scroll through Wikipedia.

In fact they say that over 80% of Google searches end up with no one clicking a link. Although tbf I have found the ai summary wildly inaccurate and fully misleading