alt Hacker NewsSame here (MS Shop).
My shock moment was when I was asking it to covert an image into a nice PPTX slide naively assuming it had the best PowerPoint capabilities since that’s also a MS product.
It returned a non formatted text box on one slide. I had to laugh so hard people on the office noticed.
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Yeah, working in an MS shop in the past couple years, that's what I've been saying ever since first iteration Copilot for MS Office came out, and it's true to this very day: you want AI to help you with your MS Office files? Ask ChatGPT. Or get API keys and use some frontend with a half-assed third party plugin that knows how to convert Markdown into .docx or such. Results are still an order of magnitude better than the Copilot in MS Office.
I blame it on corporate reluctance to take risks that could result in bad press. They put a lot of work into screwing Copilot up. I mean, they had it running GPT-4 back when GPT-4 was the new hot thing. The way it was comically useless is not something that "just happens" - as evidenced by the fact, that just running GPT-4 via API yourself produced good results by default.
Gemini-in-sheets is the same way
i asked it to make a sheet look nicer and it couldn't without me explicitly telling it what i wanted done.
When i told it to do certain things, it's like "that's not implemented yet, stay tuned!"