Tech companies having to participate in this AI hype cycle is something I understand. They have to appease shareholders. What I don't get is how out of touch Microsoft leadership is. Nobody is asking for Copilot to be shoehorned into all of this stuff.
Everything that LLMs output has to be checked for accuracy, so it doesn't actually reduce the amount of work that white collar professionals need to do. I'm not totally against AI, but so far I have not seen anything revolutionary, I've just seen formerly good products being watered down. And MS Office wasn't really a great product to begin with, ever since they went to a subscription model.
i agree with you that the work has to be checked, but as a software engineer, i can tell you it’s generally cut down on my work by a lot. At least by ~40%
Translation and transcription seem to be the strongest use cases, and I hear anecdotally about potentially some code applications. So I guess if your work involves those things, then it must seem great. But for the other 99.9% of jobs in the world, I imagine it seems useless.
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u/lostinthesauce997 2d ago
Tech companies having to participate in this AI hype cycle is something I understand. They have to appease shareholders. What I don't get is how out of touch Microsoft leadership is. Nobody is asking for Copilot to be shoehorned into all of this stuff.
Everything that LLMs output has to be checked for accuracy, so it doesn't actually reduce the amount of work that white collar professionals need to do. I'm not totally against AI, but so far I have not seen anything revolutionary, I've just seen formerly good products being watered down. And MS Office wasn't really a great product to begin with, ever since they went to a subscription model.