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Like I’m fucking crying over here right now this is crazy LOL 😂
So, I was just at the Microsoft Power Platform conference in Vegas last week for work and while there was still obviously a TON of Copilot push, there was also a subtle tone running through the keynotes and panels lead by Microsoft where they kept saying “Pro code isn’t going anywhere” and “People will always be a necessary step in any process”. I get the impression Microsoft is panicking a bit about companies adopting their previous stance on AI too hard and promptly imploding. At least that’s what I tell myself to sleep at night now.
That feels obvious to me, and has for quite some time. The fact the hype machine has been saying the opposite for over two years has kept me second guessing my gut intuition, and yet I kept coming back to this us good and useful in some scenarios, but it will take a lot of big jumps to replace people becsuse coding was never the hard part.
I love that the meme author took the time to repaint the legs and hammer handle
That would be me. Exciting to see my masterpiece in the wild (if from a Lemmy reply to a Lemmy post counts as the wild).
Every single time I open Teams it pops up a dialogue asking if I want to try Copilot. There’s no “No” option, just “Yes” and “Maybe later”. If you click “Maybe later”, it asks again the next day. One day they’ll just assume “Yes” and not ask.
And this is at work for a company that has demanded we jam needless AI into all our applications.
You could just click yes, do whatever two minute intro it has and then ignore the feature forever from there.
Instead you click no every time and complain that it pops up again the next time, knowing that it’ll pop up again tomorrow
Listen I hate these tools too but you have a solution here that’ll make it so the tool will stop pestering you so that you can truly ignore it.
I suspect “yes” comes with strings attached, which is why I’m sticking to the other option. But it’s likely I already agreed to the strings when I agreed to my company’s demand that we use Teams.
Also I don’t want to give some manager at Microsoft the satisfaction of adding my click on “Yes” to their stats.
But it’s likely I already agreed to the strings when I agreed to my company’s demand that we use Teams.
Bingo. The licenses were agreed to when the product was purchased, not when you click “yes, ok, show me the tutorial”
I mean it sucks and I don’t use these tools either despite them being forced into my work machine, but if you’re getting psychic damage every morning bc the pop up you could just click through it and ignore the shit tools from there. That’s all I’m saying, your sanity is worth clicking a few buttons.
That yes button is a license agreement to spy on your professional messaging and there is probably no way to undo it. Go look up what hoops lawyers had to jump through when Word added no opt-out AI. Microsoft doesn’t understand how to make applications for the end user, their only concern is selling cloud compute tokens.
This is incorrect, the license agreement is accepted upon purchase and provisioning to users. You, as a user, clicking through the onboarding tutorial is not the license agreement.
It’s a work computer and your it team and legal department has already approved usage of these tools. Sure, you do whatever you think is right but your company has already agreed to that license. You are already bound by it through your employment and usage of employer provided tools
My IT department laid out clearly what AI tools are approved, and copilot and chatGPT weren’t on the list.
Great. Sorry for confusing you with my vague “your company did x” in my previous reply. I was trying to refer to the OP commenter I replied to in this thread. If a feature is enabled and provisioned to you, it’s largely true that your company has already accepted the license agreement for you to use it. I wish my company didn’t shove ai everywhere but many are and as employees (in the US atelast) we don’t have any ability to not agree to these terms.
Sadly, in many of these programs, Copilot will start collecting data if you enable it. And send it to Microsoft, obviously.
That’s my thinking but I suspect it probably does this anyway.
It’s a work computer (it has teams on it). It’s already enabled and collecting data as approved by the IT team. Why do you care?
My company thankfully aren’t in the “jam AI” phase, but we still get those fucking Teams and Outlook popups begging us to use copilot. If you go into settings, there is a way to turn off those notifications… until the app updates and - ooh look whaddayaknow - that setting is enabled again
We are in the “submit anything to do with AI to the CTO and Legal for intense scrutiny” phase. Then I noticed some copilot app just installed itself, I assume as part of the 11 update. I uninstalled it from my machine………
At least that tiny little piece holding everything up is still all the open source code maintained by community volunteers.
Not just MS. So many places are trying.
I feel like this is one of those times where there is huge “second mover advantage”
AI tools will make work more productive. But right now we are in the pre-Lotus123 era where none of the tools work intuitively and synergistically and there is a hell of a lot more futzing and Solitaire than spreadsheet wizardry
We just signed a lease on a new place. Most of the paperwork we could do online but a couple things needed to be dropped off in person at the realtor’s office. It’s a decently large office and there’s TVs there with info and stuff for staff. A few panels that show up talk about seminars for how to better sell a property, and one of them was called “The AI Revolution in Realty”. I have no idea how AI can help with selling a place, everyone I know wants to view places in person. I guess if you’re selling a place to someone overseas who’s about to come here for school (pretty common where I live), then maybe AI can help deceive them so they’re more likely to purchase/rent? That’s the only thing I could think of. Realty is a decently in-person job, that’s not something AI can be integrated with. Maybe I’m wrong and there’s a good explanation for it, but I can’t think of one. It’s the most forced integration with AI I’ve seen personally.
And failing super hard…
They are trying but Microsoft emailed my work email, yes on office 365, that now is a great time to try Copilot
Microsoft had a “bug” in which after you update, even though you have copilot disabled, would show the icon anyway.
We have a government required e-mail address (privacy@<company.com>).
It literally got 0 e-mails, 0 spam except for that “try Copilot” mail
