alt Hacker NewsBecause of the partnership with OpenAI, I always assumed Copilot was just built on top of GPT.
So how did MS make Copilot Suck, if it started with same base?
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bix6 • yesterday at 8:43 PM
Real talk! Copilot is so bad. It’s literally useless. And they charge an absolute arm for it. Like how is it soooo much worse than Chat? I am a frustrated monky when I use Copilot.
Microsoft Copilot uses their own model that is originally based on GPT-4 if I’m not mistaken.
But, it’s mostly a RAG tool, “grounded in web” as they say. When you give Copilot a query, it uses the model to reword your query into an optimal Bing search query, fetches the results, and then crafts output using the model.
I commend their attempt to use Bing as a source of data to keep up to date and reduce hallucinations, especially in an enterprise setting where users may be more sensitive to false information, however as a result some of the answers it gives can only be as good as the Bing search results.