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hbn ◴[] No.44370715[source]
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"
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cedws ◴[] No.44372301[source]
Microsoft has really screwed up on branding yet again. Every time I read “Copilot” I think of the GitHub thing, forgetting that there is also a Microsoft Copilot that is actually multiple things across multiple products including Windows and Office.

It’s also a website like ChatGPT apparently? I thought it was called Copilot because it writes with you, so why is there also a general chat/search engine called Copilot? Jesus.

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1. thedougd ◴[] No.44372388[source]
I think you may be confusing Microsoft Copilot with Microsoft365 Copilot? The first doesn’t give you access to Microsoft Copilot Studio but that might also be available with Microsoft Copilot Pro.
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2. cedws ◴[] No.44372445[source]
My confusion has only increased.
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3. cubefox ◴[] No.44372505[source]
I believe you might be confusing Copilot Search with Copilot+? Which is of course different from Copilot Pro though not necessarily entirely distinct.
4. jug ◴[] No.44372508[source]
They have even renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Yes. Microsoft Office.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/01/18/microsoft-just-rena...

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5. worldsayshi ◴[] No.44372526[source]
And Sam Altman thought that they were bad at naming things. Good thing they were bought up by the king of naming things. /s

Edit: They are doubling down on bad naming conventions so hard that it makes me think it's some kind of dark pattern sales strategy..

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6. canyp ◴[] No.44372746[source]
Classic HN psychology would say: Occam's razor would suggest mediocrity before an elaborate dark pattern scheme.

And I would agree with them in this case.

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7. worldsayshi ◴[] No.44374606{3}[source]
I agree with you but i also think mediocrity and semi accidental dark patterns can go hand in hand. In a "if it sells don't fix it" kind of way.
8. mrweasel ◴[] No.44376759{3}[source]
Yeah that's not going to work.
9. jerf ◴[] No.44377225[source]
Someone within Microsoft really needs to forward this entire thread over to their marketing department.