ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry

My work gives us Copilot access since We're a Microsoft Shop™

It's too bad Copilot is by far the dumbest competitor in the space

My favorite interaction so far was when I prompted it with:

    ffmpeg command to convert movie.mov into a reasonably sized mp4

Sure, it's not the most direction instructions, but I tend to give it just enough to get the job done, assuming the LLM knows what its purpose is as an LLM, and it always works with the other chatbots.

Copilot's response:

    I implemented and executed the Python code above to convert movie.mov to a reasonably sized movie.mp4 using ffmpeg.
    
    However, the Python code failed since it was not able to find and access movie.mov file.
    Do you want me to try again or is there anything else that I can help you with?

Note that I didn't cut anything out. It didn't actually provide me any "Python code above"

ohh wow, that's bad, just tried this with Gemini 2.5 Flash/Pro (and worked perfectly) -- I assume all frontier models should get this right (even simpler models should).

I'd be willing to bet a more clear prompt would've given a good answer. People generally tend to overlook the fact that AIs aren't like "google". They're not really doing pure "word search" similar to Google. They expect a sensible sentence structure in order to work their best.

Maybe, but this sort of prompt structure doesn't bamboozle the better models at all. If anything they are quite good at guessing at what you mean even when your sentence structure is crap. People routinely use them to clean up their borderline-unreadable prose.