Copilot Chat for Everyone, AI Agents Everywhere in Teams, and Fighting “Workslop” – Practical 365 Podcast S04E44
Topics discussed
Intro and host banter
The volatility of AI research and health advice
Promoting the Tech conference and Microsoft events
Microsoft Copilot subreddits and user feedback
Copilot licensing changes and feature distribution
Microsoft's strategy with small and open-source models
Hardware trends: NPU, quantization, and inference costs
Microsoft's competitive position and hardware roadmap
Defining AI agents vs. bots and scripts
Degrees of agency in AI task execution
Practical use cases: Facilitator and PM agents
The 'Sherlocked' effect on third-party AI tools
Teams AI updates: Summaries, library, and workflows
The 'Work Swap' and the problem of AI slop
AI detection, authenticity, and professional identity
MIT study on Copilot value and pilot failures
Lessons from Yammer and the difficulty of adoption
Strategic advice: Narrow scope AI projects
Outro and sign-off
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