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Copilot is slow compared to free GenAI chat tools
We are rolling out Copilot with Commercial Data Protection to staff and working on adoption and trying to get people to use it instead of ChatGPT. One piece of feedback that has come back from sever...
Same problems here. Copilot is really cool for being able to work with corporate data, but it's very slow. users complain about this (me too) .
When I first started out using CoPilot last Novemberish it was actually really fast. This last month or 2 it's been painstakingly slow to the point I'm going to search out other options. It also often generates the answer repetitively until you force it to stop. Microsoft has a glitch in the system.
- Yes its got worse and I happened to be using the free version of Copilot on my mobile and I couldn't believe it, it was fast!!
I asked the free copilot the question "What is an example of AI Augmentation?" and it replied with 5 paragraphs within 14 seconds. I asked the same question of Copilot formerly BCE and it took 52 seconds to create 4 paragraphs. This was within minutes of each other on March 3rd 2024 around 11.20am GMT.
It's poor from Microsoft that a paid product is slower than free version of its product. I am surprised, as it weakens the business case for companies thinking about moving to a more expensive product like Copilot Pro or Copilot 365.
