[zeestephen]

Speaking on behalf of AI...

I have made modest use of Windows Copilot (Microsoft AI) for the last month.

I mostly asked simple questions - names, dates, prices, investment data - and I am completely satisfied with the answers.

Last week, I researched the Boeing 737 MAX crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia in 2018-19.

My opinion - Copilot was absolutely flawless.

Many of my questions were in depth engineering issues.

Once again - absolutely flawless.

If you do not use Microsoft products, you might be able to access Copilot through the Microsoft Bing (Search) website.

I would enjoy hearing other opinions, since I am still very new to the AI experience.

[EnderWiggin1970]

AI just ingests and then spits back out what it reads on the internet, with some risk of it misunderstanding or misstating things along the way as a middleman. For the kind of searches you are doing it’s probably not awful, though I would still consider it inferior to just doing the search and reading the source material myself. I have noticed a high “distortion rate” using Presearch and reading its AI summaries for topics I am already familiar with; people doing searches on unfamiliar topics are going to be vulnerable to being misled if they get lazy and rely on the AI responses rather than reading source material themselves.

[StAnDeliver]

Copilot is not terrible given your described usage. MS has the advantage there of using their own distillation on their own product.

Gemini 3 Pro Enterprise otoh, is the deepest, most-unexpected leap to the top. Gemini is exactly why Sam Altman shit a solid brick at OpenAI/ChatGPT.