IBM Consulting bought into Microsoft's Copilot – now it'll help customers do the same IBM Consulting has boarded the Microsoft Copilot bandwagon with Copilot Runway, a service aimed at assisting businesses to integrate their own AI assistants into their workflows. The Big Blue division has already bought into Copilot – it purchased Copilot for Microsoft 365 for its practitioners – and is keen to inflict the AI- …
"Generative AI is not only generating significant revenue for tech companies, but it's also yielding tangible benefits."
It doesn't say exactly for whom it yields benefits. Perhaps we're meant to assume customers although we old cynics will wonder about that. Nevertheless it's revenues for tech companies that are put first here with any customer benefits being an afterthought. Perhaps potential customers should reflect on that.
"The former (Copilot Runway Adoption Framework) helps organizations deploy Copilots at scale and prioritizes use cases by return on investment..."
That one made me laugh, although I'm sure management was all nodding sagely in agreement. Entirely aside from jests about the ROIs all being negative or all being fictional, imagine the poor project lead who can't get any work done because their ROI is too low (and going lower every day).
My employer had a pilot run (their pun, not mine) of MS Copilot. The folks gushing over it were pointing out how it made it easy to do tasks like make a table in Excel, or do basic calculations. Being an experienced technologist, I could not find one single task it could do as well as me (including how long it took!), despite my best efforts.
If the task can be done by Copilot, it's probably already been automated with properly-written software rather than an overhyped prediction engine.
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