Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin wonders if people are tired of AI, and here's what they say

Microsoft just released Copilot Pro last week, which is a new version of the free Microsoft Copilot tool, but enhanced with advanced AI capabilities.

This version of Copilot comes with additional features, such as Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps, priority access to OpenAI’s GPT Turbo-4, access to Copilot Pro’s Designed, and access to Copilot GPT builder, and it could be the right answer for small businesses. Everything is for a $20/month subscription.

However, a few days after its release, the tool has been encountering issues, such as freezing, and not working.

Amid all the new AI releases, Mikhail Parakhin, leader of the Windows and Web Experiences Team, including Copilot took it to X (formerly known as Twitter) to ask users if they are tired of AI, after sharing an article claiming that most tech enthusiasts are losing interest in the concept.

Interestingly enough, people answered, and the answers were polarized. While there is clearly an interest in AI, and the concept itself could become the next big thing, there are users claiming that it’s also everywhere, and the industry is oversaturated to the point there is nothing exciting about it anymore.

Take a look below.

Are people tired of AI?

Copilot has enormous potential, but in my opinion to make it appreciated you should avoid fragmenting it into multiple applications, try as much as possible to give it an identity, and add some features such as hands-free voice chat, and a code interpreter that generates files like the one in OpenAI. By combining these two features with the features it already has or that are planned, it would no longer have any more rivals

@Davide_Mori_

Doesn’t matter what people think or any hype. If it delivers people will use it and from what it looks like it delivers on its promises. The features are there and they work as expected. This is from larger trustworthy companies. Lots of shady companies will try to scam people though.

@per_arneng

Yes! The consumer excited about AI is vastly overestimated. The business world loves it but consumers really aren’t all that excited. They see some AI tech and they’re like “cool, moving on.”

@TrippyMonster98

Yes they are right. It’s just getting too much for normale people. With AI getting shoved down our throats everywhere now. It’s currently being done in a very intrusive manor. If everything being AI now, the term AI becomes meaningless.

@wenti_man

No as long as it gets integrated in a useful way. Reading and writing will only get you so far, it needs to connect to APIs and backends and save time by executing time-consuming and boring tasks. But this will need foundational re-development and will take some time.

@anko_979

We need a good quality AI agent and less hallucinations to surprise people. Photo editors, image generators, email assistant are good but don’t have much novelty.

@angelusm0rt1s

They are. “AI” won’t live up to the hype if it isn’t AGI. I barely use Bing AI and Image Creator anymore after you guys turned it into another dumb boring bot with censorship. And Google search is still faster for trivial stuffs, while coding question have fairly limited use.

@SturerEmily

As you can see, people are quite divisive on AI, and Copilot. The tech industry’s interest in AI is somehow oversaturated, and it won’t take much until people won’t be interested in AI anymore. In fact, according to our recent survey research on Copilot, we found that only 27% of Windows users use it daily.

We also found that if Copilot would implement a paying subscription (which does, with its Pro version), 46% of current users would stop using it.

Ultimately, while 70% of Windows users know what Copilot is/does and have used it at least once, with 50% using it regularly, Microsoft would need to somehow upgrade Copilot into a seamless experience, many of the people above mentioned, otherwise the AI tool will not last long.

What do you think about Copilot? Is it useful or not?