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UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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Case in point, as per the article, AI is pretty useless for regular office work
"Regular office work" is a pretty broad category. Yeah, it's probably not useful in retrieving records for someone or processing forms, but it should be useful for anything that requires research.
not sure there is any research done by people using office suite...
it sounds like you are conflating LLM in general with the crappy copilot that MS offers with the office suite
an LLM could be useful for research of large (large) datasets... Copilot would not be
I don't know much about copilot, but some quick research shows it uses GPT-5 for the chat feature. I assume that's what's meant by the average queries in the article.