I mean, with all due respect to the investors and overhyped folks who would be saying AI is a real thing, it seems it would be a way more earnest perspective to admit it is a toy, for now. Because, well, toys tend to break, they are not meant for the “real world”.
So there you go, courtesy of Chat GPT of course (with a minor addition of my own):
Who do you think we are on that image? Yep, that kid. And where is the AI? Ah, it’s the sword that’s broken. Because, you see, it’s a toy for now, and, as a toy, it can be used to solve some problems, but it’ll break easily when it meets that metal shield, which represents a real-world problem.
Question is, would you take a toy sword into a real battle?
Anyway, why am I writing this?
Well, Sean Astrakhan keeps coming up with his awesome videos, and that is all great. Here is the one that made me write this post – I highly recommend it. It won’t only improve your understanding of Copilot Agents, but it’ll also feed your biases no matter where you are on the AI acceptance scale: Copilot Studio – Get SUPER ACCURATE results…
Throughout the video, Sean is comparing various options to basically let Copilot access your data, and those options are working out quite well, just under certain conditions. That is also great, except that you’ll hear “vision”, “future”, and other references to what’s not yet working but what will potentially start working a few times in that video.
Does it make it a bad video? Nah, not at all. It’s a great one.
Most of us do like cool toys, there is no denying this, and that’s exactly what it is. I can’t imagine building a system for a business scenario where the user has to somehow figure out which question can be answered by a particular copilot agent, and which question cannot be answered. Yet if it were only that… The users would also have to figure out which answer was, actually, a real answer, which answer was a made up thing, and which answer was just AI totally giving up on even trying to answer.
No matter, though, it’s still a great video that’s worth watching for anyone interested in how Microsoft is doing with Copilot.