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Every time I've been desperate enough to use AI (ChatGPT, Gemini) for a semi-difficult question, it has failed me miserably.

It's hallucinated libraries.

It's hallucinated commands.

I tried to have it write me a complex formula to evaluate a date value. I noticed one of the conditions I needed to be covered was not, and brought up a date that would evaluate incorrectly. It basically "explained" step by step that the formula worked for my example date but used a different year for the one step where the flaw was. Like it gaslighting me.

Just last week I searched Google about a product owned by Google, Gemini interjected and gave me a detailed list of the product's features, including the feature I was searching for so it caught my eye. The reference link was to a forum post where someone asked if it had that feature and then someone responded that it did not have that feature.

It's just... not reliable.

This tracks with what I have seen at two companies I have worked for. The first did a POC for copilot and I was part of the test group. It was fun to play with but there was no good use case for my work. In the end they didn't buy copilot.

The second company has copilot for a select few but is to broke to buy copilot. I'm pretty sure those are just fee licenses MS gave out hoping to get adoption.

Nice! Good news before going to sleep!

I mean, the source here is an anonymous insider who told an AI hating journalist. So, while I hope the numbers are real take it with a grain of salt.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fuck you Microsoft and other Big Tech assholes AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

But... they made it a button on the keyboard? Microsoft sucks. They literally made an advertisement on the keyboard and their product still can't take off. Install Linux.

…and yet it’s still all over the place and not going away. I thought the “market” was supposed to decide whether these things stay around or die on the vine.

I love it for transcribing meetings and taking notes

it's worse than that, I am in the 1.8% against my will because my boss thinks Copilot is helpful and got us licenses against everyone's objections

shareholders: clearly the solution is more mass layoffs

Shocking.

It's almost like the utility of language learning models isn't in being shoehorned into fuckjng everything.

Go figure.

there is somethings AI is doing right, exposing ineptness of the companies that hyped it up.

I’m sure they made lots of money selling your personal information to the highest bidding data broker.

Damn, fun fact Microsoft Windows is a Successful Commercial.

Having seen the uptake at work, it has a place and people find utility using it.

Is it worth the crazy price they charge per seat, nope. I suspect it will just be absorbed into the main price of Microsoft 365 and pushed as a bonus benefit.

Wow, that is abysmal.

But Microsoft has staying power and deep pockets. This is only the beginning for them.

Teams sucks but became successful commercially eventually. They won’t give up yet.

I'm honestly not sure what it is so I'm not surprised it's failed