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I disagree with your overall opinion for various reasons (relying on AI erodes researching and critical thinking skills; Copilot is dangerously unreliable in the majority of use cases); it is invasive to the point that it's creating a user backlash; there's are many serious social/emotional issues that are surfacing because of AI over-use; etc etc).
But I respect that you have shared a genuinely unpopular opinion here (in the right community). And you put your arguments forward in a well-worded and coherent way. So kudos.
ETA: I don't think it's appropriate to personally insult OP because of this post, as a small number of people here are doing. C'mon people, look at the community we are in and don't resort to such insults. This is a great topic for legit discussion.
I agree that LLMs can erodes critical thinking skills and can be unreliable but I think they ARE fit for purpose for majority of searches and queries people have day to day and people are figuring out what is and isnt a question for an LLM. Like im not going to ask an LLM how to configure some piece of software I'll go to the docs and read it because i need this to be configured correctly. I wouldnt ask an LLM if I can eat this weird mushroom because i might die if its wrong.
But I would ask an LLM what tech I can use if I want to get X result and then look through the summaries of each suggestion. I would ask for a report or document template to be generated because im proof reading the document anyway. I would ask for help automating a task. I would ask for help writing random low effort slop posts that I have to do for office stuff, like marketing emails, event announcements etc.
My reasoning for this post is that even though I dont like copilot currently I can see that at its core its a good feature and with the right polish it can be a great improvement for users. A big gripe i have is that marketers have way overpromised what assistants like copilot can do. When i speak with other people I can see they have already been leaning heavily on natural language queries for over a decade now and having this built into the OS would be a huge quality of life improvement and would improve what the tool can do. People already been outsourcing their thinking to google many years ago so I cant pearl clutch over doing the same with chatgpt and we can put our heads in the sand(like most people in this thread) and pretend people arent using these LLMs for information but the reality is that they are and we need to accept it and be involved in building the software that people want.
I'm a linux user and I think it would be very useful to be able to click one button and say "Set a calander event for the 25th my dads birthday and set a reminder a week earlier" and have it set that. It works on mobile just fine.