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> "Update 1: Microsoft has confirmed an issue where users may be unable to access the Microsoft Copilot service"

So not all bad then?!

I'm still unsure of what MS Copilot is. For the longest time I thought it was GH Cp because of the obvious association, but it's not. I'm assuming it's some bunk ass Bing "AI" assisted search?

I truly think MS is the perfect example of a moat experiencing a drought. Unfortunately, money can't buy rain, it can only pump water from other sources. This never works.

I encountered MS Copilot recently when I reluctantly installed Windows for a local charity (their idea, not mine). Basically, if you do a search it'll give you the results but will then fill your screen with other information allegedly related to your query but relayed in the most verbose and annoying manner possible.

Sounds like a native MS product.

I thibk its the AI version of Clippy or something embedded in Office or Microsoft365 or whatever they call that thing these days.. (i think, i have absolutely no idea either :)

It's chatgpt wearing a hat and sunglasses

For better or for worse, it absolutely works. Pumping water from other sources or copying another type of well has been Microsoft's MO for almost 50 years and they're one of the most valuable companies on the planet.

We are on different scales of time. This does not work. Ask MS how well this technique went with phones. Their moat is as wide as the Mississippi. It will be a while, but there's a large quantity of water required to fill that ditch. They obviously know what they're doing, but time has a way of eating things.

Copilot is branding, not a product or feature. Problem is that the features/products that run under that branding don't have proper names themselves and I guess that's what trips up a lot of people.

Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image generation, I think). I use it at work every day and it is super helpful. I haven't compared it to ChatGPT, though.

>Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image generation, I think).

Because such branding deserves a snarky tone.

Sent from Outlook (whichever program/service/webapp that means now)

Thank you.

No no, you're confusing it with Copilot Series X, it leverages the latest Windows screen capture technology on your Xbox One X Series One and is intended to help speedrunners up their game, while also helping connect everyone else with relevant products and services from over 9000 partners.

So, uh, Copilot+PC, how much of their AI computer thing would be completely useless right now?

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