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UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost (www.theregister.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 30 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If you're composing the same mails a lot, for example, you can ask copilot to make a template text and then when you have to compose the same email again you ask copilot to compose and personalize the mail for you. That's an awesome funtion.

Uhm, email templates are far older than LLM.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 4 days ago

They also don't make random artifacts out of nowhere

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It sounds like it's creating the template and also modifying it as needed. That is a step up.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's plugins that replace keywords for Thunderbird and Gnome Evolution (should realy change that name).

Why? Because using AI for something like this is a waste of computing power. And likely a confidentality breach.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone -3 points 4 days ago

Yea, but it's still different to templates. My parents said playing video games was a waste of computing power. The confidentiality breach will be no worse than Gmail or Hotmail. So, not good, but also not new.

It's not bad just because it's AI. AI is much worse than it's purported to be and hasn't really progressed in a few years, but it has its uses.

Summarising and composing emails and other communications see a to be a strength.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This template adds or deletes links to relevant webpages and adds recent figures when needed.

We've been using templates for years but this adds personality and customisation

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

personality

Wat

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Personalisation. Autocarrot