Windows Co-Pilot - a useful tool?

I’m supposed to be trialling it in our department… haven’t got it up and running yet. The MS promo vid makes it look like I can sack the PA. The other ‘real user’ experience I’ve seen would suggest otherwise. 

And at $30 per head per month, and 60k users… that’s a lot of OH: you’d have to be looking at significant savings to justify that, i.e headcount reduction. 

I'm using github copilot inside vim, it's pretty amazing.

Saves so much time as a very fast autocomplete tool. Sometimes it goes off on a tangent but it's much *much* faster to just type some comments describing what you want and then have it expand some plausible looking text, than to go sifting through the intertubes (Stack Overflow).

EDIT: I could probably post up a short vid on YT later today if that would be useful.

I could probably post up a short vid on YT later today if that would be useful.

Well yeah, I'd definitely watch it. 

Recently had it enabled at our place. Not sure if its ace or terrifying that it can listen to an hour long Teams call and then create a list of actions and owners!

Windows Copilot = free, part of Windows 11. Natural language interface to Windows, e.g. you can use it to change settings.

M365 Copilot = $30 per user per month, minimum 300 licences. Works across M365. So Teams, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint etc.

I've found it most useful in Teams, for the meeting recaps and action lists. M365 Copilot Teams app is good too, I use it mainly as a search tool, e.g. "what chats did I have last week with Dave and Jane?", or "find me the email from Holly with the presentation on".

Lots of good info here:

https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/

Copilot is basically chatgpt 4.0 with a Microsoft wrapper and embedded into m365 applications.

So it's good at all the chatgpt stuff, summarising, extracting data. It's especially useful as you can point it at corporate data sources, so it's only using your data to provide suggestions.

Just be careful what data sources you point it at / data put into it and what it's going to do with anything you upload to it.

You wouldn't want it to start regurgitating your company's secrets to someone else.

You wouldn’t want it to start regurgitating your company’s secrets to someone else.

This isn't a risk with M365 Copilot, it's bounded to each company (tenant to be specific). Company data isn't used to train the language model.

With ChatGPT however... it's definitely a risk.

Yeah, for clarity, I'm talking about the Windows 11 co-pilot here, not M365, as per Beej destination between the two. 

It got installed into my win11 pc with no permission what so-ever.

As far as I can tell it's a modern version of 'clippy' with added 'AI' 'Bing' 'web search'.

I don't intend to use it, but I've not got around to removing it...

...yet.

automagically launch the Zoom app, fill in a regular meeting number and passcode them click through all the join with computer audio options?

I'm on Mac and Google Calendar and can just press the Zoom button on meetings to get into calls. I think I tweaked some Zoom settings, there must be a way of doing this in Windows as well?

@tthew:

Not the most exciting video you will watch I'm afraid.

Not the most exciting video you will watch I’m afraid.

Bonus marks for using Curl...

I have a similar use for this as oldnpastit, although inside VSCode. Really great when I’m  putting a longer script together, once I’ve got a few functions already it’s exceedingly good at working out not just what the next one should be with a short comment, but also writing it in the same style I’ve used throughout. I love it for convenience though it’s not infallible.

A colleague once asked me for a script to do x, I saved myself about 30 mins by just asking copilot for it.