Meanwhile, watching the NCAA game yesterday I multiple commercials from Microsoft stating copilot as something to use in your daily work place and work flow. And I didn't see any disclaimer that AI was for entertaining purposes only and that they weren't liable for killing your business.
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fuck you mean, youre pushing ai as if its usable on every corner of the OS, and NOW you announced it to be unreliable?
I can see where an AI that fucks everything up all the time might be entertaining like a good slapstick comedy, but nah, Resident Evil Requiem is sufficient entertainment for now.
The name MSN Copilot makes sense.
Copilot: the Fox News of AI
that must mean outlook is for entertainment purposes only too, since it includes copilot now...
First entertainment purposes only is corporate language for gives the wrong answers and don't want to lose the lawsuit if we tell people to trust it. Just like Fox News.
then y the fuck is it prominently showing on the front page of office.com?!
No worried, I don't have that junk on my Linux system anyways.
Ah, the famous "Fox News" defense of claiming you're an entertainment medium but you should totally trust it.
For entertainment in Excel...
There are some real sickos out there man
Ah yes copilot in the app everybody thinks of for entertainment…notepad.
Oh lord, I might get fired for doing this, but I smell a company-wide email about Copilot Monday morning.
Hmm, this thing is on my work laptop…
incompetent man babies. can't even own up to their fuck ups a like a real man.
If it works, it's thanks to us. If it doesn't, it's your fault.
Surprise twist: I don’t and won’t rely on it for jack shit
That's complete and utter bullshit. Either stand behind your product or don't ship it universally. Pick a lane. Either it's worth using it or isn't, so which is it?
This wishy washy bullshit paints a picture of an embarrassingly inept organization, is that really what you're trying to project Microsoft?
So it's Microslop's Rule 34?
A salesman for an AI consulting company made the comment that we don't expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI? He was smug about it, too, like it was his big gotcha. Joke's on him, I'm the one that talked the bosses out of spending money with them.
“Is your AI accountable for mistakes? All these idiots are…”
we don't expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI?
If we can't expect better from an AI than from a human, why should we use the AI (other than so you don't have to pay workers)?
Like there's a big shortage of unemployed humans
Unless you plan on enslaving them, please refer to my previous comment RE: paying humans.
I think there's an important semantic difference between worse performance and correctness. Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that's only as long as they perform correctly.
Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that's only as long as they perform correctly.
Yeah, the 'but' is the entire problem. In my experience, LLM chatbots are like if you made a 12yo a junior admin and fed them speed. Very quick to give you a confident answer, but wrong more often than not. The worst part is a lot of what I'm doing is coding, and it gets basic commands and syntax wrong
That's such a bad argument too. The whole point of technology is to help perfect the output of humans. Why would we buy technology that is known to not do that
"You can get pretty good results most of the time and save money on labor!" Not like our whole business model is focused on expertise and compliance or anything. Surely our clients won't mind a few little mistakes here and there, as a treat.
The neat part is that we can't even claim that they're little mistakes or that there's few of them.
Deploy everywhere, trust nowhere. Bold strategy.
Standard fart operating procedure
Yes, that's why it's in Office
Then why are they promoting it, in a pizza ad, as letting CoPilot handle the spreadsheets. Do they not trust their own product!?
My favorite part of that ad was that it was just “magic.”
He plugged in existing numbers and it generated some charts and there’s a line out the door!
Did AI renegotiate supplier agreements? Did it find a way to advertise in a new way? Ha, ha! Who’s to say, just use it why don’t cha??
They want your money, not your lawsuits.
for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard
Reminds me of these Autopiloting cars LOL
They, do it all by themselves, fully and autonomously and are pushed so hard as well, but you may not rely on them, never take them for serious.
and didn't tusla recently discontinue the whole thing
Then how come my company just roll this shit out for work? Allstate just walk us through how us co pilot to type our emails. And to use it for note taking.
Because in the end, you, the person that is forced to use various AI chatbot/agent/model/whatever, will be held responsible for anything that happens after one of the 3000 decisions they imposed you to make with no way to check everything turns out to cause the slightest problem. When that happens, YOU were supposed to know that NOTHING the AI tells/says/do is to be expected correct, so it's your responsibility if something's gone wrong.
Already told them I refuse to let AI write my emails or make my notes. Fuck that noise.
Just like Fox news
That was my first thought, they're using the Fox News legal defense
What regulatory capture of the FTC does to MFer.
All this shit should be considered false advertising, at the very least.
If joke, why required shaped?
Are you not entertained?!
Trillion dollar investments, dishing out private nuclear power plants, redistributing water allocation nationwide, using it in every level of every structure of society and it's just for entertainment.
Anyone tell the politicians they bent over like hand worn muppets for a gag or do you think they already know and simply enjoy being treated for the fools that they are?
they already know, the money acts as lube
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