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by knallfrosch 770 days ago
Capabilities aren't the problem, cultural adoption is. Just yesterday I talked to someone who still googles solutions to their Excel table woes. Didn't they know of Copilot?

Maybe they didn't know, maybe none of their colleagues used it, their company didn't pay for it, or maybe all they need is an Excel update.

But I am confident that using Copilot would be faster than clicking through the sludge that are Microsoft Office help pages (third party or not.)

So I think it is correct to fear capabilities, even if the real world impace is still missing. When you invent an airplane, there won't be an airstrip to land on yet. Is it useless, won't it change anything?

2 comments

I don't see how "failing to use the best tools available" is a relevant problem for this topic, even though it is indeed a problem in other regards.
Copilot in excel is really awful.