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[–] RatBin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I have tried the copilot integration in edge out of curiosity, and if you feed the ai the context of the page the response can be useful. There is a catch, tho:

  • when opening a document the accepted formats are html, txt, pdf. The documentation of a software package can be summarized but thr source will be the context of the page and not a web search, which is good in this casr

  • when generating new information, the model can be far too sintethic, cutting out potentially useful informations.

I still think you need to read the documentation yourself, maybe using the AI integration only when you need a general idea of the document.

What I do is first reading the summary of the documebt by bullet point, than reading the pdf file as a whole. By the time I do so, the LLM has given enough of a structure to facilitate my readings...