Microsoft 365 Copilot

The only thing "clear" about that License agreement is it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot. So either that document is fraudulent or everyone else at Microsoft is committing fraud daily. Examples from the first search result: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-365-copi... Support page with ~25 tutorials provided by Microsoft about how to "Create a document with Copilot" or "Create a branded presentation from a file" or "Start a Loop workspace from a Teams meeting". Do you actually believe that creating branded presentations (from Microsoft's own examples) is something people do for "entertainment purposes"?

> Microsoft 365 Copilot | Create, Share and Collaborate with Office and AI That's some insight into Microsoft's brain rot, isn't it? "Imagine spending every day for the next year dealing with robot office software."

Important snippet that has bearing on the adoption of AI as a whole: > “Disorganized data silos” have been an issue for Copilot, analysts wrote. This is true in almost every large organization, and will affect every enterprise AI product out there. There was a relevant subthread just a couple of days ago recounting this exact, same dynamic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861209 In fact, Palantir's secret sauce may not be their tech, but their "Forward Deployed Engineers" model (i.e. a rebranding of "partner engineers embedded within their customers' organizations"). Because it turns out that's a lot of what they do is navigating these bureaucratic and political hurdles to unlock access to the data: https://nabeelqu.co/reflections-on-palantir It gets even worse if you consider this data is going to be extremely messy, with multiple bespoke, partially-duplicate / overlapping, potentially conflicting versions of the data with varying levels of out-of-datedness, scattered across these silos. (I would know, in a past life, I worked on a months-long project called, self-explanatorily enough, "Stale Docs".) Yeah, untangling these bureaucratic webs and data horrors is not a quarter-long or year-long project, so investors are gonna be waiting a long time for the impact of AI to be visible. On the bright side, as TFA also hints at, AI providers themselves have been severely capacity-constrained. So hopefully by the time these issues get sorted out enough new capacity would be coming online to actually serve that traffic. In the meantime, I expect a prolonged period of AI companies feverishly splurging on AI CapEx spend even as Wall Street punishes them repeatedly for the lack of impact of AI being reflected anywhere.

It’s a steaming pile of shit too. FWIW you may be able to remove copilot from your subscription but it is still a shitshow. Google workspaces isn’t much cheaper, if you’re brave you could try ZOHO’s groupware at a significant discount but I’m sure that comes with caveats. I still can get my head around why Mozilla doesn’t dip its toe in here.