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by hhh 681 days ago
They didn't use meeting transcriptions or the query features related to that, which in my opinion is the primary value add of Copilot.

I have been using Copilot for over half a year or something, and I haven't found it to be useful in Word, and it is rarely useful in Outlook. I don't use Excel a lot, so I get a lot of value out of the formulae generation stuff when I have to use Excel.

There are several meetings that I need information from, but don't need to attend. Culture has been to take the summary from a meeting and dump it into the chat after, and if it misses anything add it below it. Really nice for action items and things like that.

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Idk. I've read through those summaries after meetings and they can often be misleading of miss important context. I still think you need to have a human to read through the meeting summaries to confirm they are accurate.
the zoom ones are so bad. straight up fabrication. not worth the 5 seconds it takes to dump them into the readout of the meeting.
> They didn't use meeting transcriptions or the query features related to that, which in my opinion is the primary value add of Copilot.

Are those actually... good? I've only seen the Zoom ones, but those are _comically, unusably bad_.