Preaching to the choir. We now have a business account for Copilot, along with every other Microsoft product, at the insurance company I work for. Can't figure out what I, or anyone else, is supposed to use it for. That is $30/mo that could go to my paycheck they are wasting far as I can tell.
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A few months ago, my work got everyone Copilot 365 licences. I have yet to use it, and I haven't seen anyone in my immediate vicinity using it either. So from my perspective, it's wasted money and bandwidth. I do work at a very large organization, so maybe there are people elsewhere who do use it, but it has yet to contribute anything to my work.
You want to know what would make my job easier? A password manager or unified login of some sort. I'm currently juggling nearly a dozen unique passwords, and it's mentally taxing.
At least our work allows bitwarden which is nice.
The reason is as bland and unpoetic as you might imagine:
companies put billions into this trend, and they want their money back.
Do not believe the lies about free market and companies losing money: they just pass their losses onto their customers. Don't like it? Fuck off, and pay more for everything anyway.
AI has it's uses in the workplace but forcing it is appalling. I say allow people to use it, but make it very clear that, as before, they are responsible for the output. If the AI fucks up, you fucked up.
The one case where it helps is in formatting. Like my boss often asks like "here's a excel file of 200 serial numbers, can you get the info from the database for them?" and yes but I need to erase the carriage return and an extra space from each so it will be 2 hours... Or I ask copilot "take this query and add in a where clause for each of these serial numbers" and it works.
Now asking it write that query is probably failure but simple formatting tends to work.
There are so many better tools out there for sanitizing data like that. Tools that don't run the risk of inserting hallucinations into your work. Granted, they do take effort to learn (Regular Expressions would be the obvious one). If it needs to be right or even has to be right, I can't imagine risking it to an LLM / GAN tool.
Right? My reaction was, "I could do that in under a minute in Vim".
Yes how exactly is this person gainfully employed. This is like 3 lines of python.
Last time a colleague asked chatgpt to format a document, a few ids got removed and new ones got hallucinated in. Still laugh whenever I remember, thanks for that 🤣
I have a similar story, but it got worse and worse with the lies as it got through the table. I fought it for an hour, then I wrote a script instead.
I would, and have used, PowerShell for that. No doubt AI is faster but I'd trust my script output.
Bruh
Yeah? I wouldn't use it make the script but simple formatting...
Yes, simple excel stuff is useful, I have used it for that too
The earlier efforts were to get rid of creatives and makers. Why not go for the CEOs? Would make quite the fiscal impact.
If they go after CEOs it might turn out there is nothing to do. That's why they go after technical / creative people because their job means something.
The result would be something like a modern planned economy. Without the transition of ownership.