Microsoft is giving Copilot users access to GPT-4-Turbo for free

The fact that MS is doing this could be a sign that most people just don't find much utility in these AI tools.

Like you said, they're trying to get people hooked.

But if AI isn't any useful to people in the first place, this goes nowhere and they're still stuck with a low/decreasing amount of users.

They don’t need to tweak them, the terms are already totally fucked, they are explicitly anticompetitive terms.

Given the relative simplicity of integrating LLM autocomplete into OS text fields (compared to other integrations supported in modern OSes), I would be shocked if a state entity with balls (like the EU) doesn’t introduce laws enforcing that OSes must have open support for third-party LLM/generative text integrations.

That said, that’s almost certainly Microsoft’s short-term strategy until then! And probably part of why Apple made their sudden priority shift towards LLM features.

The idea is to introduce advertising into the responses—-subtly. Which will be extremely powerful.

In a few years competitors to gpt-4-turbo will exist so this sounds like a rather foolish plan.

And feed stuff into it via an API. I always like to automate stuff. I guess you could use power automate but I'm not really big on the MS ecosystem (despite being part of a team that owns it at work)

these commercial offerings are always going to have mystery meat attached to them.

just either accept or reorient to selfhosting

I believe Microsoft reused the Copilot brand that it acquired from GitHub for its AI assistant which is embedded in Windows, Bing, and apparently now Office. GitHub Copilot also still exists but is a different product.

Microsoft it currently renaming all chatbots and direct LLM-backed applications "copilots". It makes it very difficult to navigate their offerings.

But I think it is kinda similar to how OpenAI is trying to call everything backed by their models a "GPT"

> Is this the same as the Copilot that is in VSCode via the Extensions?

This is about Microsoft Copilot – https://copilot.microsoft.com/ – not Github Copilot – https://github.com/features/copilot

There are a lot of “Copilot” extensions for VSCode, including Github Copilot, but none for Microsoft Copilot, AFAIK.

> It’s possibly confusing,

No, after Github Copilot being around for a while, Microsoft rebranding everything that is AI assistants “Copilot” (with “Microsoft” in some contexts, but often just bare) is confusing, especially since it follows lots of other projects adopting the X Copilot thing in between “Github Copilot” becoming popular and Microsoft introducing their new Copilot branding.

I recommend mistral because you can use it for AI development while Anthropic explicitly forbids use to develop AI.

It used to be called Bing Chat (aka "Sydney"), if that rings a bell. It made headlines last year for its creepy behavior.

https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/bing-microsoft-sydney-chatgpt...

Yes, totally different. If you use windows, there’s a pane in their Edge browser that opens up an AI chat window. You can use it for most of the things you get with paid OpenAI subscription, but it’s free for every windows user. They call it Copilot.

Yes. "Copilot" is just chatbot, now. The copilot that helps you code is now called "Github Copilot". I guess Microsoft couldn't leave a good name alone.

Competing with Gemini being rolled out into Google search.

It’s gonna be ruthless between Google, Apple and Microsoft.

I suspect that it's got to do with excess availability of compute. Usage hasn't grown past the initial novelty wave and enough enthusiast programmers are recently talking about how Claude 3 performed better in their usage.