Article - The copilots that Microsoft has created are undeniably impressive, and I believe that they represent the sort of technological change that only comes along once in a generation.

Many have expressed concern about Copilot putting people out of work or causing other economic harm. While such fears may ultimately prove to be warranted, I believe that there is another potential problem associated with using Copilot that nobody is talking about yet. This is the problem of overreliance.

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Practical Issues Around the Implementation of Microsoft 365 Copilot

  • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    Short version: This is the same bullshit that is spewed every time something new comes out. If you ever heard that your calculator will prevent you from being able to do math or your IDE will prevent you from knowing how to write a function signature and so forth, it is that all over again.

    And the reality is? Maybe it will. But that is progress. I doubt most people know how to make butter or can preserves. And they don’t need to be cause technology has reached the point that that is an unnecessary skill.

    • jollyrogue@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I like pointing out compilers exist, and there is a chapter in “The Pragmatic Programmer” about creating scripts to auto generate code.

    • Technus@lemmy.zipEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      Your calculator is much less likely to suddenly decide that 2+2=5 though.

      • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Degrees versus radians. Not checking imperial versus metric units when you enter stuff. Button gets stuck. And so forth

        Like with anything, you need to be able to glance at the output and say “that looks right”

        • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          When will these people understand that QA will always be involved?

          “AI can make mistakes!”

          Yeah no shit, that’s why you CHECK IT.

  • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    1 year ago

    I absolutely love using copilot as my initial search method. It’s not a guru, and you can’t take it on its word. It’s a fancy search engine and thats it to me. If you want good information you still have to do leg work to qualify it as such.

  • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    copilot is just horrendously bad. it actually makes me less productive. Microsoft’s innate ability to completly fuck up AI is honestly remarkable.