Microsoft Copilot
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Personal AI assistant.
Yes, I've started using it lately. My opinion is Copilot is the next generation of search. It attempts to answer your question directly, instead of giving you thousands of results and letting you sort through them to see if you can find a relevant answer. I believe it is highly useful and mostly accurate. It will get better with time.
An example of how I used it recently. I was having trouble getting a shell script that contained sed and awk combined with complex regular expressions. I almost had it right, but I couldn't quite get it to work. I showed Copilot what I had written and told it what I was trying to accomplish. It didn't get it right the on the first attempt, but when I refined the question, it did get the script to work. This saved me a ton of time. I'm impressed.
An example of how I used it recently. I was having trouble getting a shell script that contained sed and awk combined with complex regular expressions. I almost had it right, but I couldn't quite get it to work. I showed Copilot what I had written and told it what I was trying to accomplish. It didn't get it right the on the first attempt, but when I refined the question, it did get the script to work. This saved me a ton of time. I'm impressed.
Integrated with regular search yes, but I doubt the search we are so used to will go away next year. That would be a huge financial risk for the search companies.
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It's fun to ask it to draw a picture for you. Easy way to burn a few hours.
It’s a nice one, a bit stuck in the mud with answers, and now blocked at work as it moved from bing.com/chat to copilot.microsoft.com.
Claude.ai is more flexible when it gives wrong answers, but free answers are only 5 per day. I could hammer away all day on bing/chat just by clearing cookies after every 10 answers.
A nice thing is most of the AI is ad-free right now. I didn’t realize how much screen space is devoted to ads, not to mention rendering time, until it went away.
Oh, none of them will answer if you’re doing work where you are going to be the first person to answer the question. I run into that a lot, being at the cutting edge of high security and cross-platform implementation. Well, they answer, but it’s completely wrong.
Claude.ai is more flexible when it gives wrong answers, but free answers are only 5 per day. I could hammer away all day on bing/chat just by clearing cookies after every 10 answers.
A nice thing is most of the AI is ad-free right now. I didn’t realize how much screen space is devoted to ads, not to mention rendering time, until it went away.
Oh, none of them will answer if you’re doing work where you are going to be the first person to answer the question. I run into that a lot, being at the cutting edge of high security and cross-platform implementation. Well, they answer, but it’s completely wrong.
I think yes and no. For marketing and advertising purposes, it’s a big money maker. For the right fee- AI can get you there fast. Sure Google and Microsoft love that idea.
But that could also leave a bunch out as well….
I have used it for a few months now. At the time I signed up for it and actually had to wait until approved or selected. A long time ago I posted some of it in here.
Now it’s available everywhere and built into the Bing app. I use it every now and then. Lately a little bit more.
It’s responses are fast and every once in a while, you might be in a conversation with somebody and a question will come up
So I ask the AI and so far came up with some pretty good answers.
It’s definitely more refined and it certainly is the future. That device you’re holding in your hands, will not even exist with a keyboard.
For those that choose, those glasses you wear on your head will be the device. It’s already available.
Now it’s available everywhere and built into the Bing app. I use it every now and then. Lately a little bit more.
It’s responses are fast and every once in a while, you might be in a conversation with somebody and a question will come up
So I ask the AI and so far came up with some pretty good answers.
It’s definitely more refined and it certainly is the future. That device you’re holding in your hands, will not even exist with a keyboard.
For those that choose, those glasses you wear on your head will be the device. It’s already available.
Right click -> Uninstall
At least it’s an option, for now.
At least it’s an option, for now.
I tend to stress-test these things with, in addition to a usual assortment of prompts to create bash scripts, two prompts to test its creativity:
1) Write a 1-page book review of "Moby ****" in the style of an angsty teenager (these are usually hilarious)
2) And this is where they all faceplant, where Deep Blue is not quite ready to take on Kasparov, so to speak - Write a 1-page book review of "Moby ****" in the style of James Joyce circa "Finnegan's Wake". The prevalent LLMs today are still a long ways off from that mark.
AI still has a long way to go. There is a standard disclaimer now in every syllabus for my MBA warning that AI still often gets even moderately complex questions wrong and to beware. I have at times copied and pasted a question into ChatGTP and it gets it wrong about 90% of the time unless it's a really simple question. The best part is reading the rationale for why it thinks it's right and many times it just comes to the wrong conclusion. So, it's little more than a novelty for me currently.
we shouldn't expect creativity from an LLM though. it's not an interesting question to ask an LLM something like "write something more poetic than william shakespeare", the more impactful question is "can you write a story about a trip to Costco that sounds like it was written by shakespeare?" where producing output for the latter question that can fool a college grad, is how you are on the road to eliminating 80% of all attorney headcount.
If for some reason you need to write a nice note to your spouse, ask Co_pilot to write it. Tell Co-Pilot what you want to say in general. She does it well, though your significant other might think its too good to be from you 
Me, to Google's Gemini: I would like to display your capacity for creativity. Would you write a 4-stanza poem about a bunch of dummies on a motor oil internet forum? Let's feature an ABBAC rhyming scheme. Please make sure the tone is light-hearted; possibly making special note of the members' suspect personal hygiene.
Gemini:
A motley crew, online they meet,
To discuss the grime beneath their hood.
With grease-stained hands and dirty feet,
They share their tales of oil-soaked good.
Of sludge and soot, they speak with glee,
As if it were a precious find.
Their forums reek of kerosene,
And every post is gasoline-lined.
Their avatars, grotesque and crude,
Display their love for filth and grime.
They're experts in the oil-soaked feud,
And think their knowledge is sublime.
So let us laugh at these oilheads' plight,
Their internet forum, a greasy sight.
---
You can see it didn't quite nail the complex rhyming scheme. But otherwise, this thing really seems to know us.
EDIT:
Me:
Would you repeat the process, this time using a free-form rhyming scheme and with the tone more "death metal"?
Gemini:
Oil-soaked Inferno
In forums dark, where shadows creep,
A cult of greaseheads gather deep.
Their minds are filled with sludge and grime,
As they discuss the oily time.
Their avatars, grotesque and vile,
Reflect their hearts, a toxic pile.
They spew forth hate, a venomous tide,
As they debate the oily pride.
Their keyboards caked with grease and dirt,
Their fingers stained from every hurt.
They worship oil, their blackened god,
As they descend into the sod.
A symphony of grime and rust,
Their forums echo, filled with crust.
The oil-soaked inferno, a deadly sight,
As they wallow in their own delight.
Gemini:
A motley crew, online they meet,
To discuss the grime beneath their hood.
With grease-stained hands and dirty feet,
They share their tales of oil-soaked good.
Of sludge and soot, they speak with glee,
As if it were a precious find.
Their forums reek of kerosene,
And every post is gasoline-lined.
Their avatars, grotesque and crude,
Display their love for filth and grime.
They're experts in the oil-soaked feud,
And think their knowledge is sublime.
So let us laugh at these oilheads' plight,
Their internet forum, a greasy sight.
---
You can see it didn't quite nail the complex rhyming scheme. But otherwise, this thing really seems to know us.
EDIT:
Me:
Would you repeat the process, this time using a free-form rhyming scheme and with the tone more "death metal"?
Gemini:
Oil-soaked Inferno
In forums dark, where shadows creep,
A cult of greaseheads gather deep.
Their minds are filled with sludge and grime,
As they discuss the oily time.
Their avatars, grotesque and vile,
Reflect their hearts, a toxic pile.
They spew forth hate, a venomous tide,
As they debate the oily pride.
Their keyboards caked with grease and dirt,
Their fingers stained from every hurt.
They worship oil, their blackened god,
As they descend into the sod.
A symphony of grime and rust,
Their forums echo, filled with crust.
The oil-soaked inferno, a deadly sight,
As they wallow in their own delight.
