Microsoft has published an ad promoting Copilot on Windows 11, but it contains a hilarious error that actually proves how useless the AI is.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Aura quickly manually sets the scale to 200%, which solves the problem but isn’t what Copilot actually suggested…

    Isn’t that what almost anyone would do?

    I’ve seen some pretty silly AI blunders before, but this one seems rather harmless. You’re still going to end up at the setting you need to change to solve the problem, which to me falls squarely in the “close enough” bin.

    • mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de
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      24 days ago

      Copilot didn’t suggest 150% in the context of a set of instructions. He specifically asked Copilot which percentage to set. That was the only task which Copilot was being asked to solve at that point in time.

      You might also say that this is a simple task, so nobody would actually ask Copilot what percentage to use but isn’t that the point? This task, which Copilot failed on, is a simple task.

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        24 days ago

        I think it’s funny that copilot goes around the Internet scraping everyone’s info but somehow doesn’t have access to a value in Windows’ own settings