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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 had demanded we jam needless AI into all our applications.
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……..
Our IT department and leadership are more schizophrenic than usual around AI. Top leadership wants it bad, pushing big initiatives. Risk management layer, predictably, is more cautious - requiring analysis and approvals and so forth - this is driven into IT with things like redirects from open internet AI services to internally hosted alternatives (sensible), but the internal services aren't completely up-to-speed with tools like Cursor. So, I have approval for Cursor, and IT is helping me make it work around their filters, but then again - once in a while the Cursor software magically uninstalls itself overnight. Luckily, the work in progress is still there and when I re-install Cursor it picks up where it left off.
We clearly have conflicting interests at work behind our company computers.
If you ask an AI agent (like the one on Google search) how to disable the prompt dialogue it will usually tell you something that works. This is actually nothing new, back in Windows ME days I spent 8 hours with search engines figuring out how to de-feature Windows ME until it worked like Windows 98SE, that was actually a pretty good computer/OS for the day - after I turned off all the ME garbage.
Not just MS. So many places are trying.
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
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.
Idk, I can think of plenty. Pricing models (finding comps and such) can be compiled in a fraction of the time! Online listings have AI-generated images of what different remodel options could look like! So on and so forth.
And failing super hard..
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).
At least that tiny little piece holding everything up is still all the open source code maintained by community volunteers.
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'm only here to comment on the picture
Like I'm fucking crying over here right now this is crazy LOL 😂
The problem isn't the imaginary "AI" so much as the actually existing Microsoft.
Fuck proprietary software.
