qazMicrosoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
touristAre you not entertained?!
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.
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.
“Is your AI accountable for mistakes? All these idiots are…”
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.
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.
Yeah, the ‘but’ is the entire problem. In my experience, LLM chatbots are like if you made a 12yo a junior admin and fed them speed. Very quick to give you a confident answer, but wrong more often than not. The worst part is a lot of what I’m doing is coding, and it gets basic commands and syntax wrong
Unless you plan on enslaving them, please refer to my previous comment RE: paying humans.
RE?
Is it Weskin time yet? That would certainly solve unemployment.
for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard
Reminds me of these Autopiloting cars.
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.
and didn’t tusla recently discontinue the whole thing
ArtVandelayThat was my first thought, they’re using the Fox News legal defense
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?
do you think they already know and simply enjoy being treated for the fools that they are?
You’re assuming they aren’t willingly participating in screwing over the constituents to line their pockets or g to give lucrative contracts to their friends
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.”
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.
ThalesIf it works, it’s thanks to us. If it doesn’t, it’s your fault.
Kokesh
JoeBigelowThere are some real sickos out there man
FredselfishThen 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.
InfiniteHenchSurprise twist: I don’t and won’t rely on it for jack shit
Oh lord, I might get fired for doing this, but I smell a company-wide email about Copilot Monday morning.
TryingToBeGoodHmm, this thing is on my work laptop…
melroySo 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
Entertainment 365.
Regrettable_incidentSounds like a sex bot that can also juggle.
No worried, I don’t have that junk on my Linux system anyways.
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.
No1The name MSN Copilot makes sense.
I can see where an AI that fucks everything up all the time might be entertaining, but nah, Resident Evil Requiem is sufficient entertainment for now.
Topic aside: I want to play resident evil requiem. do i have to play previous games as well? I haven’t played any.
Naw, they’re tenuously connected aside from some specific moments and characters across the franchise.
Story wise it’s all pulp horror/scifi. If you want to play the highlights the remakes of part 2 and 4 from the 2010’s are fantastic games and each stand on their own. 7 & 8 are more modern and really good straight horror experiences but not necessary to enjoy Requiem.
Resident Evil Characters wiki page can be a fun read for a little more context but not an absolute need.
Alternately if you want to get caught up without a 100 hour investment in play time, Noah Caldwell-Gervais does great long form essays on video game series’ and his resident evil one will get you up to speed for requiem in significantly less time.
I started playing them on original PlayStation release and have enjoyed them all for different reasons. The story is a hodgepodge of 30 years of writers and artists building a world that is both overly complex and charmingly simple. Each release can be seen as a reflection of the world it was created in and the horror and espionage tropes of the time. At the end of the day though, it is a very silly series that understands the ridiculousness of its characters and world and strikes a great balance between that and being genuinely scary.
