LG webOS TVs are now installing Microsoft Copilot automatically with no option to remove it

The best use case I've seen is as a glorified notes taker for meetings.

Yep. This is what we've found at the small company I work for using Fireflies.

My developers (5 senior, older guys who've been doing this for decades) all basically said the same thing about GitHub Copilot: "It's decent at shortening the loop of googling, taking a stab at putting something together, and giving me a starting place that can save time I would have spent. I can't often use exactly what it puts out, but it gets in the ball park. Sometimes it gives me ideas and approaches I wouldn't have thought of on my own."

If over the course of a month it can save one developer a couple of hours of time, that's worth the cost of the license to me at the current price. If they go jacking the price through the roof, we'd have to reassess if it's still worth it. As a manager, I'm looking at it purely as a tool to enable them to work with less stress (reduce grind), or to help them be more efficient so we can get more work done. Thankfully I'm at a small company where the BS shell game of "KPIs go up and to the right" isn't a problem.
 
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LG updates have been pretty lame as an owner. I will just decline the latest one. But not being able to remove an app is awful consumer treatment.
Try Samsung TV updates, they are even worse. And the worst part is with Samsung, even if you turn the option off to not automatically update, after a while Samsung just goes ahead and updates your TV anyway.

That's why my S90C stays offline and it on older good firmware
 
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Look... one thing doesn't null the other, so both things can happen, and even at the same time

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The note taking for meetings is honestly okay, but it still needs massaging after the fact. Searching logs, etc, pretty useful. Essential, no. Useful, sure.

We got spoiled with a Project Manager who was like a freaking stenographer with his meeting notes. We would get these amazing minutes for every meeting with highlights, checkboxes for tasks that came out of the meeting, etc. Sadly, he passed away about 18 months ago and none of us can perform at his level.

The AI doesn't get everything right, but it's close enough that one of us can go back through the notes to do the highlights and callout action items that were agreed on. It saves us time and human bandwidth - enough that it's worth the current price.
 
We got spoiled with a Project Manager who was like a freaking stenographer with his meeting notes. We would get these amazing minutes for every meeting with highlights, checkboxes for tasks that came out of the meeting, etc. Sadly, he passed away about 18 months ago and none of us can perform at his level.

The AI doesn't get everything right, but it's close enough that one of us can go back through the notes to do the highlights and callout action items that were agreed on. It saves us time and human bandwidth - enough that it's worth the current price.
yeah no doubt. i think that's useful. I don't think it's worth trillions in the hole for it, but it's useful.
 
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