12 comments

  • rubiquity 2 hours ago
    All Microsoft services are for entertainment purposes only, as in you’d have to be absolutely crazy enough to use before a Microsoft sales rep has taken your execs to a steakhouse and strip club.
    • zahlman 1 hour ago
      > All Microsoft services are for entertainment purposes only

      Which is why they're all getting named Copilot now.

    • kuerbel 24 minutes ago
      Trying to get free/busy working with an exchange hybrid setup is not my kind of entertainment but I don't judge
  • gnabgib 3 hours ago
    Discussion (587 points, 6 days ago, 205 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866
  • rvnx 54 minutes ago
    Entertainment purposes but we can't have a virtual waifu. They are missing the main market there.

    https://www.uniladtech.com/news/elon-musk-hints-at-controver...

    > (Ultimately) "One big step closer to anime girls becoming real," Musk replied: "Optimus will enable them to become physically real."

    • fwipsy 34 minutes ago
      Congrats, you just found the answer to the Fermi Paradox!
    • Iulioh 26 minutes ago
      I can see the right branding: CopePilot
      • rvnx 10 minutes ago
        Copilust
  • lateforwork 3 hours ago
    Go to https://copilot.com and ask a question. You can see from the answer that it is clearly for entertainment only. Three years ago Microsoft was considered a leader for having the foresight to invest in OpenAI. Today they are a laggard.
    • myhf 3 hours ago
      On the contrary, the first companies to acknowledge the new AI Winter will have a big competitive advantage over those still dumping money into the bottomless pit.
      • eru 3 hours ago
        My local ice cream shop has never invested anything in AI. Do you think they'll come out of this ahead?
        • solid_fuel 15 minutes ago
          Genuinely curious, what could an LLM even do for an ice cream shop? Checkout already takes less time than scooping a cone, and it's even quicker with cash. Maybe it could surveil the customers and employees? But I think that will lose you more customers than it gains.

          Generally I would expect the ROI to be negative, like we've seen with most corporate AI projects, so yeah any ice cream shop that didn't invest in "AI" is going to come out ahead of one that poured money into the pit.

        • dwattttt 3 hours ago
          I've seen the "success" a non-software company has been having, trying to integrate AI into their processes. A hypothetical competitor who chose not to do so would absolutely be coming out ahead right now.

          I can't say whether this trend would continue, but the answer to your question today is "yes".

        • SoftTalker 3 hours ago
          My local ice cream shop doesn't even have a computer in the building. Well, unless you count the credit card terminal.
        • debo_ 3 hours ago
          Ice cream tends not to sell well in winter.
          • jen20 2 hours ago
            New York City seems to be a counterexample - gelato and ice cream stores everywhere that seem to do decent trade year-round...
          • eru 2 hours ago
            Alas, no winter in my locality ever.
        • Brian_K_White 1 hour ago
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      • trvz 2 hours ago
        Ok, so that’s good for Apple.

        Microsoft is invested heavily in OpenAI?

  • mullingitover 34 minutes ago
    I get the sense that this is the LLM version of the all caps boilerplate disclaimer in every software warranty.
    • otherme123 6 minutes ago
      I think every sequencing technology I know that is used as a diagnosing help has the disclaimer: "For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures". The sales reps go from hospital to hospital selling their sequencers, and point the disclaimer with a smirk. They are covering their asses.
  • jeanlucas 2 hours ago
    which copilot?
  • jimgill 2 hours ago
    True .... sometimes it gives funny answers
  • oyebenny 38 minutes ago
    Perhaps for most it is. lol
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