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Microsoft puts a steep price on Copilot, its AI-powered future of Office documents
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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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For light users, $36/mo is very expensive. However, for middle and upper management types that live, breathe, and eat PowerPoint, this is huge. If this is good enough to allow non-technical people to connect to their BI and generate charts and reports without the need of IT, it will be incredibly cheap to them. There’s a whole cottage industry of consultants for small business who do these sorts of things so having this automated will save time and cost for these businesses.
As a developer, I’m still interested in seeing what CoPilot integrated in my development environment will be able to do. My company is currently paying for ChatGPT+ at $20/mo for me. At my salary, it’s a no brainer since even an hour a month is a huge ROI. However, it’s quite manual since I have to copy paste everything. If I can get ChatGPT 4 with the full context of my project, $36/mom is a no brainer. If we can get a private version that is trained on our company code base, it will be a game changer.
Big if imo. I can see it getting there within a half decade at the rate this technology is evolving, but today? No fucking way.
Bigger likelihood that motivated (previously) nontechnical middle managers can learn to automate reports themselves with a lot of handholding from AI though, if this is actually as good as GPT4 was at launch though.