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I have no idea why they're doing this. LLMs are a useful tool in certain areas, but they're by no means ready as the sort of universal assistant tool Microsoft is trying to position them as.
I use GitHub Copilot to make writing boilerplate code faster and easier, and it works really well for that, but I can't see any other computing tasks I engage in regularly benefiting from an AI assistant trying to get all up in my business.
I get why a lay person would misunderstand the capabilities of LLMs. They sound like a thinking person should sound, so they treat it like it's coming from a thinking person.
But how are all the (presumably) tech-literate Microsoft employees also confused by this? Anyone paying even a little attention should have seen numerous instances of LLMs confidently asserting "facts" that they pulled out of their asses. They are not the right tool for most of the stuff people use a voice/OS assistant for.
I have to assume it's the business guys up top hearing the "AI" buzzword and getting horny for capitalism but god damn