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Re: M$ Copilot

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Peter Jason wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:28:24 +1100, Mighty Mouse
> <"squeak!"@thecheesefactory.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> been checking out copilot today, and noticed a couple of things.
>> firstly, in any interaction with it, after it gives you the info you
>> asked for, it asks you questions, and wants to start a dialogue. I
>> thought that's a bit strange. why does it want me to tell it things
>> about myself? and secondly.. I noticed it keeps a record of everything
>> that's been said to it right from when you first used it. you can see
>> your entire interaction by scrolling back thru the text, and you can
>> save it, print it, have it translated, have it read aloud to you, or
>> screenshot it. but guess what's the one thing you cannot do with it? you
>> guessed.. delete it! so why is M$ asking us questions, and keeping a
>> record of our interaction with copilot? could it possibly be to obtain
>> as much info about us as possible and construct a profile? I bet it is.
>> and even if we could delete our conversations from the copilot screen,
>> that's no guarantee that M$ doesn't still have a record of everything
>> that's been said!
> 
> All true, no doubt.  But it does have advantages.
> 1/ Composing poetry and love letters.
> 2/ Directing to suppliers, and the like.
> 3/ Condensing and simplifying long verbose texts, such as found in
> patents and academic papers. And legal documents.
> 
> This last is very valuable.  I haven't tried it on Shakespeare yet,
> but he's on my list.
> 

I asked it about nonadiagonal matrices (which have nine non-zero 
diagonals) and it thought I mean non-diagonal matrix. To be fair Google 
Gemini had the same problem. So AI cannot handle the arcane stuff.

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M$ Copilot Mighty Mouse <"squeak!"@thecheesefactory.com> - 2024-10-13 17:28 +1100
  Re: M$ Copilot Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2024-10-14 07:10 +1100
    Re: M$ Copilot Ozix <ozix@xizo.am> - 2024-10-14 13:04 +0800
  Re: M$ Copilot Mighty Mouse <"squeak!"@thecheesefactory.com> - 2024-10-14 15:06 +1100
  Re: M$ Copilot Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2024-11-18 17:10 +1100
  Re: M$ Copilot Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> - 2024-11-21 17:19 +1000
    Re: M$ Copilot MightyMouse <"squeak!"@theCheeseFactory.com> - 2024-11-21 19:36 +1100
      Re: M$ Copilot Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> - 2024-11-21 20:32 +1000
        Re: M$ Copilot Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2024-11-21 23:16 +1100
          Re: M$ Copilot MightyMouse <"squeak!"@theCheeseFactory.com> - 2024-11-21 23:42 +1100
            Re: M$ Copilot Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2024-11-22 00:23 +1100
              Re: M$ Copilot Mighty Mouse <"squeak!"@thecheesefactory.com> - 2024-11-22 15:41 +1100
            Re: M$ Copilot alvey <Hans.Andnees@gmail.com> - 2024-11-22 06:26 +1000
              Re: M$ Copilot Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2024-11-22 11:24 +1100
          Re: M$ Copilot alvey <Hans.Andnees@gmail.com> - 2024-11-22 06:23 +1000
            Re: M$ Copilot Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2024-11-22 11:22 +1100
              Re: M$ Copilot Mighty Mouse <"squeak!"@thecheesefactory.com> - 2024-11-22 15:43 +1100

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