[Dzugaru]

I've just watched the Microsoft 365 copilot presentation. They never mentioned hallucinations, and talked about errors maybe once?

This thing will definitely make stupid errors and will make up things when summarizing, doing presentations etc. - unless it achieves near human level intelligence of course - but in this case everyone'll lose their job.

I'm really curious what'll eventually happen? How are we going to live with it - strange presentation points, wrong numbers in reports, enormous amount of auto-generated business talk texts? Will the knowledge be corrupted more and more?

[echelon]

You're looking at this in a black and white way, overlooking all of the uses where it doesn't have to be perfect. If it saves humans even a few minutes, it's a good tool.

[rednalexa]

Absolutely. The user still needs good taste right now too - if it writes you a mission statement or something else you have still have to know whether its good or not.

[echelon]

That itself is an order of magnitude speed up. Even if AI never improves beyond this point (and it almost certainly will improve), it's already a game changer.

[operon]

Sure, but for less than $20 a month.

[elitan]

> I'm really curious what'll eventually happen?

Maybe it will produce fewer errors than humans and also improve over time.

[qwytw]

Is there any indication based on current data that it might?

I mean currently it's just regurgitating what actually humans wrote down at some point. It's capably of synthesizing this information to some degree but it is almost completely incapable of criticizing it on its own.