Outlook prompted me to use Copilot today on the mac. I was surprised.
Microsoft is struggling to show Wall Street that it can control costs and make their investments pay. For this reason the are being a little heavy handed with Copilot, which I don’t think is going to help them.
For example I shared earlier that companies are having a hard time justifying paying for Copilot. Gee I wonder why? Why would people pay and use something that will replace them?
I get it. People are scared for their jobs, and they have legitimate issues with Copilot. I have used Copilot alot in the last month and I have plenty of issues with its reliability, speed, and usefulness.
I can’t think anyway in which rewriting my words in Outlook with Copilot will help me. Perhaps if I wasn’t a native English speaker it would help, but then those people are probably not being expected to have English language skills, but the other skills they bring to the table.
I can’t imagine how I can use Copilot for Outlook either. Its kind of funny when you think about it. Microsoft started out in DOS which was text based. Then it went to Windows which is GUI. Then it wants to go back to text with Copilot. Yes, you can speak to it but I don’t. Speaking to something implies it is intelligent, and this is not intelligence.
Sam Altman said ChatGPT-5 would have a basic level of intelligence and be a general purpose intelligence. Ha. Have they solved the hallucination problem, because Copilot hallucinates more than a career crack addict on a holiday high. It is so unreliable that using it I often wonder if I am saving myself work. When people question the worth of their time using your product, you need to reevaluate.
Sure I am sure some people will love its pretend intelligence. I of course will try it out, but nothing beats a human. No machine can ever replicate that.