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It makes sense they ditched the name honestly, Cortana has a garbage reputation and they're chasing trends with the copilot name.

Upgrading Cortana would have been a much better move, imo. I could see Apple not wanting to make Siri AI, as Siri is and has been a household name. Cortana, on the other hand, was used by basically no one.

Especially since they already had the perfect name: Clippy!

Should have waited to blow their load with the name Cortana until they had an actual VI type technology. Not the Google assistant knockoff that Cortana was.

"But... Copilot doesn't have titties .."

Soon actual copilots will have to either be replaced with AI or rename their position to not be associated with that garbage.

Unlike ChatGPT or Bard, GitHub Copilot is actually useful for software engineering, so personally I think it was a good move to utilize that brand.

The easy way to turn it off is not paying for it. It’s like $30/user/month.

Here's a link to a page that was gone before I finished copying the url and doesn't forward anywhere.

Omg, I saw an answer on there the other day from 2018 talking about "software conflicts". They don't even know what they're talking about most of the time.

I can see Microsoft being even more aggressive with beating features into you with windows. Best steer clear if possible

I get extremely good results out of AI and I am happy to pay 20 euros per month.

I am sure it will find many happy customers

Yeah AI unfortunately suffers from needing an operator that can explain their ideas clearly in written text, because that will directly change the quality of the output. You also have to be at least baseline knowledgeable about what you're asking it or you won't notice the errors.

You can't just be a computer illiterate person and ask it to make a python script for you and expect it to work. Like most things people aren't realizing that it's intended to amplify the workload of someone in a professional field that can do the job themselves and are looking to subsidize the grunt work or the time it takes to write an email or search the web for something.

For those tasks it's amazing and really helpful. I am in IT though so we definitely have bigger use cases than most. We are constantly having to integrate some bullshit application that HR thinks they need, etc.

With AI I can search the web for relevant config commands or vendor documentation and have it assemble the data for me. It's not always correct but it gets me on the right track consistently and faster than had I spent that time on the fourth page of DDG trying to see what I'm supposed to clear in the firewall for the manager that's bitching shes not able to use whatever they want.

Teams is already sucking up proprietary data and running ML on it,

Any source?

I only clicked on this thread to see how far I'd have to scroll before some wee fanny said "aCkSHuRLy I uSE LInUx"

First comment lol

Yes, never sure why people had such an issue with the term.

Example, artificial hair is a broad term, and can span from looking like a straw broom to indistinguishable from real hair, and everything in between.

In science fiction there's sometimes a distinction between virtual intelligence (something that simulates intelligence but isn't really intelligent) and actual artificial intelligence (something really intelligent but created through science and engineering instead of natural biological evolution).

Large language models would almost certainly be VI by those definitions, not AI.