• We now have AI in our forums!

    AI generated image of a computer chip

    AI-generated image of a computer chip

    We’ve added a new section in our forums for the topic Artificial Intelligence. But don’t worry — we haven’t added AI software to run our forum software, like nearly everyone else on the planet. We just want to provide a place to discuss its use — or reasons why we shouldn’t use it — in our welcoming community.

    Let me note that this new forum section is separate from other sections devoted to specific vendors. This will be a general-purpose section.

    I think there is a time and place to use artificial intelligence. For the moment, it’s showing up everywhere and seems like snake oil.

    The most annoying AI-related thing I’ve seen so far is Copilot in Word. It now makes its presence prominently known and interferes with what you really want to do — work on a document. Maybe it will be helpful in the future, but right now my suggestion is to disable it or download a Classic version of 365.