I recently stumbled upon this announcement of the long awaited Copilot Pro. I need to prepare a PowerPoint presentation this week so any capacity to use this for free would be tremendous. Thanks y'all!

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

[no solution for you, just a comment] - making slide presentations is such a waste of time that I actually think this is a great use case for AI-driven automation.

[–] effward@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Then each executive's AI can just review the slides. Then the AIs can send a string of pointless emails back and forth to each other, come to a consensus and share the decision in an email blast to the whole company.

Wait.. why do we need execs again?

[–] DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

And that's why tools like gamma.app exist

[–] lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Copilot fully integrated with Office 365 in my work, and was one of the beta testers back in November. Anecdotally, it’s no better than any other LLM, and I have found hallucinates significantly more than ChatGPT. The Office integration is useful and I do use it more than any other AI tool for its convenience being ‘inside’ of Excel / Outlook etc, but you aren’t missing much by not having it.

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My goodness bro, have you gotten it to go anything like the promo videos? Word always says "I'm still learning", Copilot Chat will hit and miss finding files and documents, and any links from a response involving web searches are replaced with the text "An external link was removed to protect your privacy." The Edge sidebar Copilot now has my company logo and can no longer "see" what I'm browsing. Before my user was licensed the Edge Copilot sidebar was different, the free version I suppose, and could do much more, just not browse my corporate files.

Edit: For example; the Word demo video in this link under business can't be done. I have nearly this exact use case. I can get it to draft a proposal, with various results, based on a QuickBooks estimate, but the part where you then tell Copilot to modify the formatting isn't the same as the video, with a Copilot button in the same dialog window as the Keep It button. And when you then summon Copilot from the side bar, you can't even invoke the file reference action to make it change formatting and layout.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm convinced it'll be like power automate, that can't even automate the most basic of tasks outside of really super specific tasks buried deep within their software.

If Microsoft is good at anything, it's mediocrity.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

You also might not need CoPilot. You can just ask GPT yo produce an airline for the presentation, ith the information you provide, You could even ask it to leave placeholders for images.

It won't be an award winning presentation, but if you don't care too much, GPT mass pretty average presentations.

[–] kek@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Think it's restricted to O365 Enterprise & Education customers (in certain regions) for the moment, don't think it'd be possible to get it for free, at least for now