Microsoft Launches Copilot App for Mac

[svish]

Good to see the app. Will have to download and see. Will be great if it allows access to it without signing in.

 

[Wando64]

does any one use this? microsoft is a horrific at privacy and usability imo

Are they any more horrific than OpenAI, Meta or Google?
Based on what evidence?

 

[Peitjah Puck]

I can almost feel the Windows Phone vibes with Microsoft CoPilot. DeepSeek is the iPhone!

 

[peterdev]

Are they any more horrific than OpenAI, Meta or Google?
Based on what evidence?

I think they are, based on my question on Copilot:

What happens with my data I submit here? does it go to MS servers, or does it stay on my computer?​

Copilot:

If you're curious about how your data is handled, it's best to check out Microsoft's privacy statement here. It has all the details 😊​

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement​

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and there:​

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How to access and control your personal data​

You can also make choices about the collection and use of your data by Microsoft. You can control your personal data that Microsoft has obtained, and exercise your data protection rights, by contacting Microsoft or using various tools we provide.​

Hmm, why just not tell me that you will use my data and that I have to jump through hoops by contacting Microsoft to make sure you do not…

At least ChatGPT has an option NOT to share, not that I trust that very much, but…

 

[JippaLippa]

Gemini is brutal from my experience. Slowness, task accuracy, I had to give it up and go back to CGPT.

I Guess.
I only tried it as it was part of my plan for my business.

It's useful to note that I'm on the advanced model, which perhaps is better than the regular one.

 

[lk400]

Great! Just what we need. Another AI app.

 

[F-B-Z]

The app is not available in Germany (I assume in the whole EU) so far 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[iBreatheApple]

I know it’s been on the up and up, but AI is really exploding right now! (Except at Apple).

 

[GeMenRe]

Not available in France at the moment.

Available only in US - and perhaps China/India where it gets developed.

 

[Surrylic]

I work in IT and find its VERY inaccurate and unreliable. When asked what date a CPU was released it gave a date.... then when I looked at the sources EVERY one had the correct date. Only the date ChatGPT told me was NOT correct. It gave me the one date the a single source had revised its article.

I've also asked for how to do basic things in Windows 11 and I'll get the 10 or sometimes even 7 directions.

I spend so much time having to fact check it that it's faster for me to just use google search and be done.

I haven’t really had to ask “how do I do x on Windows 11” or whatever. My job involves the terraform, powershell, JavaScript and bash scripting languages, and working in AWS.

 

[Rainbow Apple]

Isn't "Copilot" the new name for MS Office, and not just MS's term for their AI?

 

[Romain_H]

Reportedly, its huuuge success. Accoring to substantial rumors, tens of ... dozens of users already downloaded this

 

[thefrost]

An app that no one is going to use.

 

[MacBH928]

Are they any more horrific than OpenAI, Meta or Google?
Based on what evidence?

I didn't look at all of them but there are places that offer better privacy LLMs use , I need to double check but some of them are like Phind, Kagi, Venice.ai . There is probably others.

MS is definitely feeding their algorithms and their Bing ads network.

 

[OGdrknight]

Why would I want CoPilot on my Mac? Hell I don’t even want on my work laptop but it’s included in everything!

 

[ArPe]

I didn't look at all of them but there are places that offer better privacy LLMs use , I need to double check but some of them are like Phind, Kagi, Venice.ai .

Yes when I want to use AI I always give my money and data to obscure start ups with unknown teams, such as Paris.ai, Eatkarma.ai, Piselo.ai and CagoAdosso.ai.

Be careful of all these random “AI” companies that pop up. In the back end they are almost always making calls to another service and cannot guarantee security or leaks from their providers. They mostly do not host their own service. They are mostly taking a bunch of prepaid annual subscriptions and one day they will vanish overnight and not give refunds.

 

[Wando64]

Yes when I want to use AI I always give my money and data to obscure start ups with unknown teams, such as Paris.ai, Eatkarma.ai, Piselo.ai and CagoAdosso.ai.

Be careful of all these random “AI” companies that pop up. In the back end they are almost always making calls to another service and cannot guarantee security or leaks from their providers. They mostly do not host their own service. They are mostly taking a bunch of prepaid annual subscriptions and one day they will vanish overnight and not give refunds.

Where do I apply to work at the Cago Addosso AI team?

 

[tipoo]

Why does this also require Apple Silicon like ChatGPT? Perplexity works fine, and MacGPT is a fine workaround to this

 

[It’s always something]

Why does this also require Apple Silicon like ChatGPT? Perplexity works fine, and MacGPT is a fine workaround to this

Because Microsoft only released an Apple Silicon version.

I suppose it’s possible they limited it this way to stay in line with their decision to limit it to Windows 11: after all it would be hard to exclude older Wintel machines if they provided it for Intel Macs.