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Maybe try different models for different things.
I have full Copilot integration at work because my employer is investing ridiculous sums of money to push AI into the workplace through licenses and training. Employees are "encouraged" to utilize AI at least 80% of workdays, I'm sure you can imagine all the creative behavior that is driving. I find Copilot incredibly good at summarizing historical email and internal data on topics to get up to speed on projects/products I haven't engaged with recently or answer questions based on previous inquiries. I was a borderline obsessive for decades about filing email in .pst/subfolders to simplify future retrieval and I now find myself drifting far beyond inbox zero with Copilot's quick retrieval and summarization. Copilot's ability to draft something in my own style using the tone and voice of my email history is borderline scary. But as many of you mention, it suffers from the same short term memory problem from recent interactions sometimes as bad as forgetting between one prompt to the next in the same conversation. I also find it's computational ability using simple prompts to be quite poor. The integration with Teams for note taking and meeting summarization is fantastic especially when you consider it will use the meeting transcriptions in any future prompts for information (Oh yeah Bill said this about risks and Sally was going to look into it).
Grok has been my primary model used for my non-work related stuff. I find its computational and analytical ability to be extremely good, far better than even 6 months ago. I currently don't want any models tied into my personal email so I can't compare it fairly against Copilot but it is much more conversational in its interactions. I find its ability to "remember" is much better than the other models even when returning to prior conversations listed under the left hand menu from weeks prior.
Gemini seems to have caught up to, if not surpassed, Grok with the recent updates. With it being in browser I find myself using it more and more just due to convenience. Maybe a positive for Google.
I like Perplexity quite a bit for research on complicated topics. I find the way it presents specific references to be convenient and useful.
Just recently Alexa+ entered my home in beta form on devices through out our home. You can't fathom the chaos in my household when Alexa began responding with a different voice one morning. Luckily it was easy enough to ask to return to the original voice. It is much more conversational and you no longer get "here's what I found on the web". It also seems to be doing more speech pattern recognition to determine who in the household it is interacting with and attempting to address that person by name.
And Apple, well at least they use google search in Safari and Gemini is easily accessible. Siri isn't even worth using. Yet my family of four still has 20+ apple devices.
The next 12-24mo should be very interesting as all of these continue to evolve.
Jeff
