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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asking AI for sources is really the worst use for it- AI does best when you load in a document and ask for a summary, talking points, etc.

It’s also great for first drafts of things that don’t matter that much, like an email.

I’ve also loaded standard operating procedures and asked for improvements or automations I can make in processes.

I’ve also used it to grab code to automate some current processes- something that I really did not have time to figure out before- it’s amazing, but it’s a tool, and you have to know how to use it properly.[/quote]

I can see your point. At the same time, AI adds errors and mistakes. Checking for its mistakes takes as much time, or longer, than just doing the work myself from the start. [/quote]

Not really?  I’ve found high accuracy if I ask AI to summarize a document.  It’s recognizing patterns in text at that point, not trying to generate answers.  It saves an enormous amount of time.  I can ask it to draft out a memo and it basically works as an outline that I can fill in and elaborate on.

It’s a tool, it’s not magical, and you have to know how to use it.  You can’t treat it like voodoo or be overly reliant on it.  The more you understand how it works, the more powerful it becomes for you.[/quote]

Anyone who thinks AI is 1) actually AI and 2) a powerful tool is far too stupid to reliably check its output for accuracy.[/quote]

I appreciate the concern! Luckily, some of us have mastered the delicate art of using tools and critical thinking. It’s a niche skill set, I know.[/quote]

I went to an official Microsoft CoPilot training session on how to prompt AI.

They said you should include in the prompt things like "do not make up any of the information if you can't find an answer".  In other words you can reduce hallucinating by telling the AI not to hallucinate.  I didn't find that very comforting.  But telling y'all now so it can be part of your elite niche skillset.[/quote]

Copilot is generally pretty bad.  I wouldn’t use it for work unless I were trying to pull some code to build a macro or something.

I think the fact that you feel informed after going to an “official Microsoft Copilot training” sort of tells us that you don’t know what’s going on.[/quote]

No need to be insulting.  I work at a Fortune 500 corporation in a planning and strategy area.  This company does have Microsoft as an investor in a subsidiary and Microsoft makes our office software suite.

I was invited to this workshop through LinkedIn outreach.  When I went to this workshop it was full of white collar execs and managers from a wide variety of other large corporations in my metro.

Feel free to mock away about how dumb, uncool, etc. large companies and their employees are.  However, the reason that we use Microsoft is that they guarantee our business information isn't leaving the company/is adequately protected.  My company considers many tech companies like Amazon and Google to be competitors so we certainly want to know where our info is going.  I personally have not been involved in the selection of the AI and I have read that Claude and other AIs are better.  But this is kind of like the situation with Bing.  Anyone that's used Bing can understand what Google search does and whether it would be a mild help or a big help.  They do the same thing, Bing's just not as good.

Companies like mine employ millions of employees in the US and contribute hugely to the economy of the US.  So if you think Microsoft CoPilot is junk, then you're undermining your arguments about how transformative all this AI is going to be to the labor market.  Because a lot of us are going to be getting that as our easiest to use built-in software.[/quote]

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