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Honestly, I think tools like Copilot 365 will be used less for generating copy or answering questions and more for boring yet time-intensive tasks like meeting
by sbarre 3y ago
Honestly, I think tools like Copilot 365 will be used less for generating copy or answering questions and more for boring yet time-intensive tasks like meeting summaries, reporting and building slides.
Most people I know who work in large enterprises work in a "deck culture" where everything needs slides, and - again anecdotally - no one likes making slides.
For many people it's a slow and painful process. If Copilot 365 can take a Word doc that someone wrote and mash it with a corporate slide template to produce a usable, or near-usable, deck that just needs a few tweaks before being ready to circulate or present, that will be a huge win for so many people.
I saw a video demo of this recently and it was really impressive. A raw meeting transcript was turned into a meeting summary and that summary was then turned into nice-looking slides based on an existing presentation. All in under 5 minutes. I'm sure it was a controlled environment (the demo was by a Microsoft evangelist), but I didn't actually expect it to be that good.
As more and more of these AI assistants appear, I think they will all slowly find their niche like this.
- zulban 3y ago> no one likes making slides. I'm not sure about that. I think there's a lot of people who actually like frequent long meetings and bad slides. That's why we have them everywhere. The rest is groupthink. I agree your use cases are the big wins though.