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A salesman for an AI consulting company made the comment that we don't expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI? He was smug about it, too, like it was his big gotcha. Joke's on him, I'm the one that talked the bosses out of spending money with them.
“Is your AI accountable for mistakes? All these idiots are…”
That's such a bad argument too. The whole point of technology is to help perfect the output of humans. Why would we buy technology that is known to not do that
"You can get pretty good results most of the time and save money on labor!" Not like our whole business model is focused on expertise and compliance or anything. Surely our clients won't mind a few little mistakes here and there, as a treat.
The neat part is that we can't even claim that they're little mistakes or that there's few of them.
we don't expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI?
If we can't expect better from an AI than from a human, why should we use the AI (other than so you don't have to pay workers)?
I think there's an important semantic difference between worse performance and correctness. Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that's only as long as they perform correctly.
Ah, the famous "Fox News" defense of claiming you're an entertainment medium but you should totally trust it.
If it works, it's thanks to us. If it doesn't, it's your fault.
for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard
Reminds me of these Autopiloting cars LOL
They, do it all by themselves, fully and autonomously and are pushed so hard as well, but you may not rely on them, never take them for serious.
For entertainment in Excel...
There are some real sickos out there man
Just like Fox news
That was my first thought, they're using the Fox News legal defense
What regulatory capture of the FTC does to MFer.
All this shit should be considered false advertising, at the very least.
Then why are they promoting it, in a pizza ad, as letting CoPilot handle the spreadsheets. Do they not trust their own product!?
They want your money, not your lawsuits.
My favorite part of that ad was that it was just “magic.”
He plugged in existing numbers and it generated some charts and there’s a line out the door!
Did AI renegotiate supplier agreements? Did it find a way to advertise in a new way? Ha, ha! Who’s to say, just use it why don’t cha??
Are you not entertained?!
Yes, that's why it's in Office
Trillion dollar investments, dishing out private nuclear power plants, redistributing water allocation nationwide, using it in every level of every structure of society and it's just for entertainment.
Anyone tell the politicians they bent over like hand worn muppets for a gag or do you think they already know and simply enjoy being treated for the fools that they are?
they already know, the money acts as lube
Proposed revision: Do not use Copilot for business purposes.
But also don't look at our advertisements.
Theo whole OS is garbage. Used to be at least functional, now it’s an ad infested AI slop fest.
Oh lord, I might get fired for doing this, but I smell a company-wide email about Copilot Monday morning.
Copilot: the Fox News of AI
Surprise twist: I don’t and won’t rely on it for jack shit
(to Microsoft) So, you won't be using your ai for vibecoding your updates anymore, right? ...Right?
..checking Microsoft's status page..
User impact: A subset of admins in North America may be unable to access the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Current status: We confirmed that an issue in a recent update introduced errors in the code path that facilitates calls to the Microsoft 365 admin center when encountered by admins, which resulted in their inability to access the Microsoft 365 admin center.
I guess Microsoft didn't get the memo they released, then...
Someone finally listend to their lawyers
I can see where an AI that fucks everything up all the time might be entertaining like a good slapstick comedy, but nah, Resident Evil Requiem is sufficient entertainment for now.
So it's not called Microsoft 365 copilot anymore then? Since that is fully focused for business and not for entertainment. Make up your fking mind Microsoft
In other words: Snake oil salesman back paddles after the ice he‘s standing on got very thin.
I think you were trying to say "backpedals."
Well, that's if they were on a bicycle, but they're standing on a paddle board over the ice. Why would they stand on a bicycle? that doesn't make sense. Neither does a paddle board on ice, but I already lost track of what the metaphor was about.
Meanwhile, watching the NCAA game yesterday I watched multiple commercials from Microsoft stating copilot as something to use in your daily work place and work flow. And I didn't see any disclaimer that AI was for entertaining purposes only and that they weren't liable for killing your business.
Then how come my company just roll this shit out for work? Allstate just walk us through how us co pilot to type our emails. And to use it for note taking.
Because in the end, you, the person that is forced to use various AI chatbot/agent/model/whatever, will be held responsible for anything that happens after one of the 3000 decisions they imposed you to make with no way to check everything turns out to cause the slightest problem. When that happens, YOU were supposed to know that NOTHING the AI tells/says/do is to be expected correct, so it's your responsibility if something's gone wrong.
Already told them I refuse to let AI write my emails or make my notes. Fuck that noise.
then y the fuck is it prominently showing on the front page of office.com?!
That's complete and utter bullshit. Either stand behind your product or don't ship it universally. Pick a lane. Either it's worth using it or isn't, so which is it?
This wishy washy bullshit paints a picture of an embarrassingly inept organization, is that really what you're trying to project Microsoft?
I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.
Where I live, high ranking bank employees are required to use it for serious use and important advice.
Twist the reality all you want, copilot manages my whole life.
they probably had Copilot write the new TOS that included this line and since nobody who uses AI reads the final output, nobody caught it.
they never expected consumers to actually read the TOS.
First entertainment purposes only is corporate language for gives the wrong answers and don't want to lose the lawsuit if we tell people to trust it. Just like Fox News.
fuck you mean, youre pushing ai as if its usable on every corner of the OS, and NOW you announced it to be unreliable?