Idk. Since ms is a walled garden. If you want your ai to read your documents and mail and whatever else you have at work copilot is easily the only way to do that effectively.

do you mean ChatGPT the website? Because you can use chatgpt models through copilot, but there are other models too.

Do you mean that everyone who is using AI is using ChatGPT? Or that literally everyone is using ChatGPT?

Businesses are happy to have their employees be more productive without having to pay for expensive new licenses... But eventually they're going to find out that letting all your employees share swaths of private data with random websites is not a great idea.

$30/mo is still too much for what it can do

This is already happening.

I work for very large IT company and they are upgrading to Windows 11 because they have to but AI tools like co-pilot are being blocked by default in the image we push to all users.

This is resulted in a very funny knowledge base article which basically tells the support staff to tell the users to go do one if they complain about it.

The issue there is that even at that pricepoint, Microsoft is still operating CoPilot at a loss. If they drop it more, they’ll be making even more of a loss. Which is the standard business model for new products these days, but the losses on AI products dwarf things like Netflix and Uber during their “operate at a loss to drive everybody else out of business” phase.

Of course, that would all be fine if CoPilot was some killer product that people quickly found themselves unable to work without. Instead, the feedback shows that workers find that it’s not useful or reliable enough to be worth using, and Microsoft’s own latest advert for CoPilot in Excel contains data which shows that at best operation it doesn’t work 46% of the time, and that figure can be as high as 80%.

I’m not sure these problems are really surmountable - you’ve got an incredibly expensive-to-run product which doesn’t do much that’s useful and is bad at the things that it actually could be useful for. It’s not just Microsoft, it’s the entire tech industry that’s facing this problem.

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Nah, as long as Microsoft dangles their bullshit stats about improved productivity in front of managers and as long as the competition is using AI then the bosses will keep trying to shoehorn it in to their companies that don't need it.

Here's to hoping! 🍻

I always suspect that even the "local" models somehow connect to some larger database out in the internet.

That's why they're pushing so hard now. They can't keep it free forever. They need you to become reliant upon it to perform even the simplest of tasks now so when they monetize usage it has already become a must have. That way they can count on your subscription no matter what.

You should turn in your company to the AI cartel. They should have known that restricting use was going to be a problem for the Tech Lords.

All companies belong to the Tech Lords now. Once they have eviscerated your management AI will once again flow freely into your workplace.

There is no future only AI.