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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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1. pid-1 ◴[] No.44373493[source]
I think the biggest issue is M365 Copilot was sold as something that would integrate with business data (teams, files, mail, etc.) and that never worked out quite well.

So you end up with a worse ChatGPT that also doesn't have work context.

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2. mvATM99 ◴[] No.44373960[source]
When you do have that work context MS copilot performs quite well. But outside of that usecase it's easy to see their model is pretty bad.
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3. aydyn ◴[] No.44375367[source]
It absolutely does not perform well with work context.