Microsoft 365 Copilot

diveunderthebonnet

Every time i start my laptop ( windows 10 ) the above program tries to load ,now while i trust Microsoft i am asking if it is safe to let this program load or is some type of scam. 

FlorayG

It's a very basic AI that tries to help you. Remember the animated paperclip from years ago? It's an updated version of that and just as annoying. I've got it on my work laptop and have to keep correcting its corrections and refusing its suggestions

Ergates

diveunderthebonnet said:

Every time i start my laptop ( windows 10 ) the above program tries to load ,now while i trust Microsoft i am asking if it is safe to let this program load or is some type of scam. 

It's not a scam or any real threat.   But if you don't want it, you can stop it from starting up with Windows.

diveunderthebonnet

Ergates said:

diveunderthebonnet said:

Every time i start my laptop ( windows 10 ) the above program tries to load ,now while i trust Microsoft i am asking if it is safe to let this program load or is some type of scam. 

It's not a scam or any real threat.   But if you don't want it, you can stop it from starting up with Windows.

How ? i am a 70 plus non techy so if you can explain please.

wongataa

diveunderthebonnet said:

Ergates said:

diveunderthebonnet said:

Every time i start my laptop ( windows 10 ) the above program tries to load ,now while i trust Microsoft i am asking if it is safe to let this program load or is some type of scam. 

It's not a scam or any real threat.   But if you don't want it, you can stop it from starting up with Windows.

How ? i am a 70 plus non techy so if you can explain please.

Option 1: uninstall it.  Settings -> Installed Apps -> Apps -> find it in the list and click on the 3 dots and choose uninstall.

Option 2: prevent form running at startup. Right click on empty part of taskbar, choose Task Manager from the menu that pops up. Go to the startup apps tab.  Right click the app in the list and choose disable.

victor2

FlorayG said:

It's a very basic AI that tries to help you. Remember the animated paperclip from years ago? It's an updated version of that and just as annoying. I've got it on my work laptop and have to keep correcting its corrections and refusing its suggestions

That bought back memories and made me smile! I remember that little paperclip being top of my hit list whenever I worked on a new installation. 😆

diveunderthebonnet

wongataa said:

diveunderthebonnet said:

Ergates said:

diveunderthebonnet said:

Every time i start my laptop ( windows 10 ) the above program tries to load ,now while i trust Microsoft i am asking if it is safe to let this program load or is some type of scam. 

It's not a scam or any real threat.   But if you don't want it, you can stop it from starting up with Windows.

How ? i am a 70 plus non techy so if you can explain please.

Option 1: uninstall it.  Settings -> Installed Apps -> Apps -> find it in the list and click on the 3 dots and choose uninstall.

Option 2: prevent form running at startup. Right click on empty part of taskbar, choose Task Manager from the menu that pops up. Go to the startup apps tab.  Right click the app in the list and choose disable.

Chose option 1 ,straightforward job ,thanks for explaining to an old hand 

Vitor

Shame to blow it away before understanding the benefits of the tools like CoPilot, ChatGPT, Gemini epecially for seniors. They can answer 75% of the tech questions posted on the forum for example plus answer health questions, tax queries, look for hotels - anything really!

wongataa

Vitor said:

Shame to blow it away before understanding the benefits of the tools like CoPilot, ChatGPT, Gemini epecially for seniors. They can answer 75% of the tech questions posted on the forum for example plus answer health questions, tax queries, look for hotels - anything really!

The issue is often the answers will be varying degrees of incorrect even though they sound plausible.  There is no way to tell how incorrect the answers are without fact checking.

Why would you want answers to technical things or financial matters that could well be wrong?

victor2

wongataa said:

Vitor said:

Shame to blow it away before understanding the benefits of the tools like CoPilot, ChatGPT, Gemini epecially for seniors. They can answer 75% of the tech questions posted on the forum for example plus answer health questions, tax queries, look for hotels - anything really!

The issue is often the answers will be varying degrees of incorrect even though they sound plausible.  There is no way to tell how incorrect the answers are without fact checking.

Why would you want answers to technical things or financial matters that could well be wrong?

Or even more so on health matters?

Vitor

The issue of LLMs hallucinating was solved ages ago