Has anyone executed any valuable use cases using MS CoPilot they'd be willing to share? Welcome thoughts here or links to previous posts where this might be a topic.
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Which part of Copilot? MS has an interesting marketing naming scheme where everything is names Copilot something. For example we use Copilot Chat - that is the "chatGPT like" genAI product included with our E5 licenses .
Not yet. I am just now exploring and testing with it now.
Precious few. There is a major problem. Copilot is still running on a Microsoft instance of GPT 3.5 Turbo. But if you are currently on o3-mini-high from OpenAI or the close behind Gemini or Claude, there is no comparison. It's like finding use cases for an old 1990s Motorola Brick Phone (Digital Personal Communicator - google it) while the current state of the art is an iPhone 4. Co-pilot is so far behind that it is frustrating to use, makes frequent mistakes and doesn't really have the omniscient integration across the Azure, Office 365, Sharepoint Teams space that it should to be effective at good use cases.
On the other hand. It's really great for preparing meetings minutes and for skipping meetings because of the lovely summaries. But that makes it a one trick pony. And by the way, why have meetings if they get skipped? And why so complex that you need minutes of meeting prepared by (no longer) leading edge AI? Don't we live in an Agile world?
My corollary, therefore, is that Yes, co-pilot provides on average a 10% "efficiency gain" which is about 45-50 minutes of a person's day. Nothing to laugh at, except....<br><br>In a LEAN and Agile organisation we shouldn't have been doing that work anyway!
Agreed, Paul. I would upvote this twice just for the brick phone analogy!
We expect increased use cases as our teams begin to utility Copilot more. Employees are excited about their early uses reducing time spent on document creation, research, and summarization. The early top uses are similar to what others report and include:
Teams: The areas of benefit so far are in Teams meeting summaries saving time for employees especially project managers in capturing action items and decisions. Team members can also catch up quickly if they are late or miss meetings.
PowerPoint: Quickly providing a draft presentation from documents. Enhancing presentation designs.
Outlook: Email summarization. Drafting and refining email content. Finding emails when looking for a past reference.
For internal use, Copilot is becoming better about summarizing data from documents and other data sources using MS 365 Copilot.
We are still pretty early in our adoption of MS Co-Pilot and the use cases I could share are likely quite basic or trivial at best. I’ve personally used it to help me summarize Teams chats that are quite busy throughout the day, create initial PowerPoint drafts from a document and even used it to help draft SMART goals for team member development plans. I don’t believe this rises to the level of the request however.