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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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what-the-grump ◴[] No.44371335[source]
I cannot reproduce this in any version of copilot?

Copilot with outlook.com

Copilot base one that comes with M365,

And the add-on one for 30$/mo.

Copilot in VS code

All produce: ffmpeg -i movie.mov -vcodec libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -acodec aac -b:a 128k output.mp4

Which is not surprising because its just an Open AI 4o call... so how are you getting this?

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svachalek ◴[] No.44371677[source]
Copilot is not OpenAI
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1. 0points ◴[] No.44376444[source]
Copilot is OpenAI in branding since day 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot#Implementation