I keep seeing this everywhere, and I had to go to Great lengths to remove co-pilot from my windows 11 on my current PC once I upgraded. Had to use a bloatware removal script to forcibly get that thing the hell off there. Now I'm seeing ads on Amazon and other places about PCs being bundled with copilot AI. I have tried using co-pilot myself, it is completely worthless. That thing is a hot piece of garbage, and somehow, works even worse than chat GPT. Like, that is truly impressive, because Chat GPT has degraded in quality over time and now they are in the news often for various controversies, the latest being a complaint about how they can't survive without stealing copyrighted content...
Who in their right mind is hoping to get a copilot powered PC???
In what ways are you forced to use it? Or are you simply using a computer that has copilot on it. It doesn't seem too hard to just...not use it? Just like Cortana in 10
I have heard that a lot of corps in less privacy/data sensitive fields have been strongly encouraging employees to use it to “boost throughput”, and it’s because the C-suites had An Idea that it’d be great to sign a multi-million dollar contract with MS or whatever cloud LLM provider, except nobody uses it because in many cases it’s just worse than useless, and not that many people give enough of a shit to essentially learn how to be a “prompt engineer” on top of their normal jobs.
It’s amusingly similar to how all the RTO initiatives are actually motivated by the C-suites being super pissed that their expensive corporate real estate is a giant waste of money in many cases, despite the fact that people are often working better and more efficiently from home.
Can confirm. Wife got a fancy AI tool from corporate and it's only delayed her work (which is mostly in excel). Lots of false equations and bad advice. So she comes to me and I give her a simple, no frills formula and solve the problem in 5 to 15 minutes.
Oh and of course they're removing their RTO initiatives soon and adding another day of mandatory in office. Mind you, free lunch isn't the pull they think it is for my wife, although if I'm being honest, if it's me ... Well, I do have a thing for free catering. Not 1 hr+ commute, but I'll bike for an hour for free food (and coffee).