Just a few for today:
- Promotional material/research from Microsoft: "What Can Copilot’s Earliest Users Teach Us About Generative AI at Work?"
- 70% of Copilot users said they were more productive, and 68% said it improved the quality of their work.
- Overall, users were 29% faster in a series of tasks (searching, writing, and summarizing).
- Users were able to get caught up on a missed meeting nearly 4x faster.
- 64% of users said Copilot helps them spend less time processing email.
- 85% of users said Copilot helps them get to a good first draft faster.
- 75% of users said Copilot “saves me time by finding whatever I need in my files.”
- 77% of users said once they used Copilot, they didn’t want to give it up.
- To that note - Microsoft has launched CoPilot Pro that integrates across Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Pre-print paper titled "Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI"
- 2778 researchers predicted in 2023 and 2024 when AI systems would achieve various milestones such as "NYT best-selling fiction" with a bunch of other aggregate insights
- ChatGPT is now making videos
- Google DeepMind publishing a paper on AI systems solving "complex geometry problems at a level approaching a human Olympiad gold-medalist"