Pressing the copilot button to instantly bring up a text box where you can interact with an LLM is amazing UI/UX for productivity. LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).
If this had been released with Agentic features that allow it to search the web, use toolscripts like fetching time/date and stuff from the OS, use recall, properly integrate with the microsoft app suite. It would be game changing.
We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years.
specifically NEED. Very few things in our day to day life NEED to be correct. Typically its good to be correct but our usecases can handle being wrong because its either low stakes or we will be diving deeper into the topic as we narrow down our information search.
We do these kinds of searches all the time. Everytime you ask an average person a question you’re preforming one of these searches. Everytime something pops into your head and you want a quick answer you’re preforming one of these searches. When you search for information online you’re generally preforming one of these kinds of searches.
An example could be I want to know a few of the popular python libs for interacting with atlassian. It gives me a list of some libs and links and I can go check them out.
I would much rather be directed to correct information than be told information that may not be correct. Bad information causes me to waste my time and money.
If its a situation where bad info can cause you to waste significant time and lose money then Copilot is not the right tool for the job. But thats not every query and I wouldnt even say its more than half our search queries.
Its boring that people are completely unwilling to engage at all with the arugment. Comparing a situation where you get the wrong info from an LLM with a situation where you get the correct info from google is pointless and shows nothing. Ignoring that people get the wrong info from google all the time is so disingenuous. Everyone would acknowledge google is still a useful resource even if there is the chance to come away with the wrong answer.
So the real comparison to make isnt correct answer from google 100% of the time vs correct answer from copilot 60% of the time. Its correct answer from google 90% of the time vs copilots 70%. So you can weigh up the options and use the right tool for the job.