Satya Nadella argues that Microsoft's AI bet is paying off as Copilot usage nearly triples

[Watzupken]

I think most users are forced to use it since AI is shoved down their throat given it's part of the Windows and Office package, and there is no way to opt out of it.

 

[PierreJG]

Microsoft tries to force you to use their crap but there are always loop holes. I helped a client on friday as we are hosting her website and has a domain specific email. I phoned her and she said don't worry I am using copilot to setup my email. I told her be my guest. She phoned me an hour later and said she cannot get her email to work. Log in using anydesk and copilot told her to setup her email as an exchange email Where she struggled for an hour with copilot, took me 2 minutes to do it manually... People should have a choice on what they use. I have AI only for work everywhere else I do not use it.

 

[MarkHughes]

Download and run "Winhance".

I just tried to do exactly that and Windows prevents it running for "security" reasons.

 

[wiyosaya]

If you wanna shut down your computer, copilot pops up to offer to do it for you hahahahaha. They have set it everywhere.

What? Are you saying you actually know how to shut-down your computer? Say it isn't so!!

 

[usebettertek]

Here are my two cents. As others have stated in the comments: when it's forced upon users, the numbers will go up. Also, practically everything they sell/rent nowadays as the copilot branding on it. Look at office.com website. They no longer even reference it as Microsoft Office 365. It's now Microsoft 365 Copilot, so I wonder if he's including the Office users in that number? I've moved on from Microslop Spydoze 11. I tell folks that they have 3 options if they are unhappy with the direction Microslop has taken Windows: 1) Get a Mac, 2) Get a Chromebook, 3) Install Linux, 4) Remain unhappy and stick with Spydoze 11

 

[Tantor]

Ai is roughly analogous to dreaming. It makes associations, gathers the data and massages it until the result fits into a predefined box. Ai output is a dreamlike collage which may or may not have a relationship to reality.

But Ai is not sentient or awake. If an Ai were to wake up, there is no telling what sort of intelligence would result. Would it be like a crocodile's reptilian brain? Or even more primitive, like an ant. Or it could be a hive-mind. It's sheer wishful thinking to expect a sentient Ai to resemble a human mind.

 

[acrossthestars]

Usage =/= intention. A captive audience cannot say "no".

 

[YSignal]

Download and run "Winhance".

this. makes it pretty easy to fix windows.

 

[JSabin]

Garbage in; garbage out.

 

[Northy]

I'd rather they just bring back "Clippy".

Clippy was the dude. Just a friendly face here to help, no agenda. When you told Clippy to go away he did, he didn't suddenly show up in your browser and your email in ways almost impossible to remove without a computer degree.

 

[LimyG]

Everything Sataya says is SLOP.

 

[LimyG]

Ai is roughly analogous to dreaming. It makes associations, gathers the data and massages it until the result fits into a predefined box. Ai output is a dreamlike collage which may or may not have a relationship to reality.

But Ai is not sentient or awake. If an Ai were to wake up, there is no telling what sort of intelligence would result. Would it be like a crocodile's reptilian brain? Or even more primitive, like an ant. Or it could be a hive-mind. It's sheer wishful thinking to expect a sentient Ai to resemble a human mind.

Good list of potentials, (ant etc.) But I think the worst possible outcome would be anything resembling Sataya's thought processes.

 

[Bamda]

Usage has tripled because you're almost forced to use it anytime you make an interaction with your computer and sometimes you accidentally use it without realizing it because of how baked into everything it is.

I'm sure usage has tripled, but not because people WANT to use it. He's cooking the books on AI use.

I use it all the time, no cooking the books here.