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Microsoft launches tracker to manage autonomous AI in the workplacefinance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-launches-tracker-manage-autonomous-160051696.html
110 sats \ 5 comments \ @ch0k1 18 Nov tech
In Microsoft's view, humans are not the only ones to manage in a workplace. Artificial intelligence needs a manager, too.
The software maker on Tuesday announced Microsoft ‌Agent 365, a program for its customers to track what it expects to be 1.3 billion ‌agents automating office work by 2028. Agents are AI-powered programs that perform tasks on humans' behalf.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 18 Nov
I find this funny because CoPilot has literally been the least useful LLM implementation for me. For example, Claude has shown me a higher success rate vibing an Excel sheet than CoPilot editing an existing one.
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121 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 18 Nov
Don't all AIs do better vibing from scratch than editing existing work, though?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 18 Nov
Used to be like that but not anymore, now that these last generation models and tooling has been trained / finetuned on loading projects into context properly.
I think the dysfunction with CoPilot comes from MS trying to integrate too tightly.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ch0k1 OP 18 Nov
What do you mean?
I see Copilot's use case as a coding tutor which partly requires tight coupling solely for this purposes - if that's what you mean..
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 19 Nov
For coding I agree, with the exception of PowerApps (I've tested that twice for a client and it's a horror show, the worst part is probably the assisted database design, which is a productivity drain, while in the UI in "manual mode" it's been pretty awful too.)
For the "helpful assistant" implementation in Office 365 - where most usage of CoPilot happens - it only performs well in the places it's most sloppy: Outlook email drafting and Word doc generation, for straightforward things. In structured documents like Excel and PowerPoint you'll spend more time correcting the bot than you would just doing the work. At least it was last time I did a run through it myself, back in August. So I guess there's the caveat that I could be outdated - I'd love to hear from someone that uses CoPilot in Excel in their day-to-day.
The feeling I have with these CoPilot implementations is that it is molded into the larger MS framework, which has not been without friction ever, imho. I suspect that the reason for this is that it must respect the RBAC environment, what is now called the Microsoft Graph, so it has no choice but to integrate tightly with the underlying MS frameworks. You can't just add simple calls to it because then you'd need to separately authenticate the bot every time?
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