I use Bing/Copilot like you are using Perplexity -- ask it a question, get back a summary of web results with links to all the sources (so I can decide what I trust). What I really like about this mode is being able to ask follow-up questions to drill deeper into the research, without having to figure out how to couch this as a series of more specific web searches and then having to skim several results and self-summarize what I'm reading. This alone is a massive productivity boost.
I don't do great with audio sources -- podcasts have to have a transcript for me to be able to follow them and there's no way I could deal with audiobooks -- so I haven't gone very far with _chatting_ with Copilot et al. I have experimented -- very briefly -- with voice-directed GitHub Copilot stuff but mostly I revert to typing, because I want text as output, not audio. If I can get AI to listen to a podcast or conference talk for me and write a summary... that would be useful...
Microsoft has just enabled Copilot for all Office users so I might start using that at some point (although I don't write much, beyond documentation for code, these days).
Using these services via voice direction is something I need to experiment more with, I suspect.
Yeah this is where I see most Microsoft shops going. It's just easier. But it's a pity that Microsoft CoPilot is lackluster in many areas. As a purpose built tool, Perplexity still excels, especially with its concept of collections. So you can take a thread as far as you'd like and still be able to go back to the original questions (not to mention you can use different models).
It's funny becaues MS Copilot is using the GPT models under the hood. It's just the product around it that isn't that great.
For meeting notes, I still haven't found something that beats Otter.ai.
I use Bing/Copilot like you are using Perplexity -- ask it a question, get back a summary of web results with links to all the sources (so I can decide what I trust). What I really like about this mode is being able to ask follow-up questions to drill deeper into the research, without having to figure out how to couch this as a series of more specific web searches and then having to skim several results and self-summarize what I'm reading. This alone is a massive productivity boost.
I don't do great with audio sources -- podcasts have to have a transcript for me to be able to follow them and there's no way I could deal with audiobooks -- so I haven't gone very far with _chatting_ with Copilot et al. I have experimented -- very briefly -- with voice-directed GitHub Copilot stuff but mostly I revert to typing, because I want text as output, not audio. If I can get AI to listen to a podcast or conference talk for me and write a summary... that would be useful...
Microsoft has just enabled Copilot for all Office users so I might start using that at some point (although I don't write much, beyond documentation for code, these days).
Using these services via voice direction is something I need to experiment more with, I suspect.
Yeah this is where I see most Microsoft shops going. It's just easier. But it's a pity that Microsoft CoPilot is lackluster in many areas. As a purpose built tool, Perplexity still excels, especially with its concept of collections. So you can take a thread as far as you'd like and still be able to go back to the original questions (not to mention you can use different models).
It's funny becaues MS Copilot is using the GPT models under the hood. It's just the product around it that isn't that great.
For meeting notes, I still haven't found something that beats Otter.ai.