On: Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending

[goalieca]

Gmail search has been excellent for 20 years. Outlook search is still terrible even with copilot. LLM isn’t the killer feature, a search that works is.

[user34283 → goalieca]

For one I don't have Gmail at work.

Copilot can search even in PowerPoints. Being able to search your organisation's documents is kind of a killer feature, provided they make it work reliably.

[jaredcwhite → user34283]

I can't think of a single reason why you would need an LLM to search through PowerPoint files. We have traditional search technology which would be excellent for that!

[JumpCrisscross → jaredcwhite]

> can't think of a single reason why you would need an LLM to search through PowerPoint files

Kati’s Research AI is genuinely great at search. It tries to answer your question, but also directly cites resources. This can help you when you’re not sure where the answer to a question lies, and it winds up being in multiple places.

Unless your query is super simple and of low consequence, you still need to open the files. But LLM-powered search is like the one domain (apart from coding) where these fuckers work.

[goalieca → user34283]

Google has been doing this well in their office suite for years. Discoverability has been way higher in Gsuite than office.