I suspect its training set might have included code from novices like myself - as I've written before, it needed a warning label. The code however only worked about 20% of the time, often having fatal errors. As an infrequent and novice R programmer, I was impressed with how ChatGPT confidently presented fully explained ‘model’ code snippets which precisely met my stated requirements. More recently, I have been exploring the use of ChatGPT-generated code for the popular R programming language for data analytics. So while we may not see Copilot operating effectively for many years, it does create the expectation.īut how realistic are these expectations? I have previously written about concerns around the generative aspects of ChatGPT. To be fair, announcements like Microsoft Graph and now Microsoft Copilot set a strategic intent. Microsoft Launched Microsoft Graph in 2015, but some products have yet to be integrated with it.

The market though, has been somewhat conditioned to grandiose announcements. One can’t help but think that some of the AI researchers and engineers that work for these organizations must be shaking their heads at what the respective marketing engines are now promising. ChatGPT itself is a pilot, yet its smooth talking UI has launched a rash of me too announcements from Google and Meta. What is difficult to entertain is the speed with which these announcements are hitting the marketplace. Copilot has a visible heritage path through Microsoft Graph and now ChatGPT, which adds some substance to the announcement.

In spite of the surface resemblance, this is not a re-launch of Microsoft’s infamous Clippy, the digital paperclip that annoyed Office '97 users. Riding the tsunami of interest in ChatGPT and large language AI models, Microsoft upped its investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, from an initial $1 billion in 2019 with an additional $10 billion in late January integrated ChatGPT inside its Bing search engine and now comes this latest announcement.Ĭopilot's promise is it will be there wherever you are working - be it composing a Word document, drafting a PowerPoint presentations, struggling with an Excel spreadsheet or writing a post in Viva Engage - to build first drafts, suggest improvements, identify potential errors, suggest topics to post on and more. Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft 365 Copilot on March 16.

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