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Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] esc27@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have not had a chance to test the office integrations (and the $30 price tag may keep it that way,) but I’ve been testing the web chat version, and once toggled to “precise” mode I find it close to chatgpt. Just a little more prone to lapse into acting like a bing chat app and very limited in conversation length…

I think the trick is to treat it like a junior assistant or maybe an intern who might make mistakes and not as a seasoned, experienced employee who always puts out perfect work.

[–] misanthropy@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

$30? Idk how it is in the consumer space, but in the Enterprise world the initial opening for copilot required 300 seats of E3 or better, and then a purchase of 300 seats of copilot 365 at $30 each. They were supposed to drop the 300 copilot 365 seat req q1 but I'm not sure if they did.

3030012=108,000 per year for copilot. E3 is 36 a month, 30012=129,600.

Big money.

[–] esc27@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm told they dropped the seat requirements. Yeah $30 is the business rate. No discounts for education. I suspect the backend costs on this are still rather high but should improve once hardware catches up to demand.

[–] misanthropy@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Ah. Well as far as I was told two months back, they didn't plan on dropping the E3/E5*300 seat requirements, only the 300 seat of copilot requirements. But I haven't kept on top of it, all my companies clients are too small fish to drop 100-200k a year on unproven tech

From what I'm told, Ms was basically running things at a loss when they first opened the doors.