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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have actually come to prefer using AI instead of a search engine at work for most things sysadmin related (using DuckDuckGo’s AI chat feature), but I 100% have found that Copilot performs far worse than competing products. Having it that engrained in the computer is a very negative feature, despite the battery improvements.

[–] TechNerdWizard42 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Copilot sucks. Gemeni is a sassy teenager. Chatgpt 4o is actually halfway decent. When they announced Gemeni had a million context tokens, that was awesome. But it can't give coherent output to save its life. Useless.

[–] 11111one11111 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Chatgpt 4o is actually halfway decent."

I think I need to redo my parameters cuz you aren't the first person I've seen say this. I wasconvinced it got dumber lol

[–] SirDerpy 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It got worse. We adapted parameters to try to compensate. You didn't do anything wrong. You've just not yet implemented continuous improvement.

[–] 11111one11111 1 points 4 months ago

Any recommendations for where to start for improving it's efficiency?

[–] renzev 2 points 4 months ago

Perplexity.ai is also pretty nice. As far as I understand, it's just some version of chatgpt but with the ability to search the web.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Copilot in Windows and in Bing is quite bad, but the Github Copilot seems better. If you know of a clearly better one for programming I'm interested in trying things out.