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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Trying to get free/busy working with an exchange hybrid setup is not my kind of entertainment but I don't judge
> All Microsoft services are for entertainment purposes only
Which is why they're all getting named Copilot now.
Discussion (587 points, 6 days ago, 205 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866
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."
Congrats, you just found the answer to the Fermi Paradox!
I can see the right branding: CopePilot
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.
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.
My local ice cream shop has never invested anything in AI. Do you think they'll come out of this ahead?
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.
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".
My local ice cream shop doesn't even have a computer in the building. Well, unless you count the credit card terminal.
Ice cream tends not to sell well in winter.
New York City seems to be a counterexample - gelato and ice cream stores everywhere that seem to do decent trade year-round...
Alas, no winter in my locality ever.
Ok, so that’s good for Apple.
Microsoft is invested heavily in OpenAI?
I get the sense that this is the LLM version of the all caps boilerplate disclaimer in every software warranty.
which copilot?
True .... sometimes it gives funny answers
Perhaps for most it is. lol