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After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected (it.slashdot.org)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

~~I think the lesson here is that proprietary binary formats are way more difficult for a LLM to parse.~~

~~If only we could use plaintext for everything...~~

I was wrong, see comment from @[email protected]

[–] NocturnalEngineer 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They've been using OOXML for their file formats since 2007.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh, it looks like you're right! TIL