Copilot vs. GPT chat: very different cousins ​​in interaction

Microsoft Copilot vs. ChatGPT

Copilot is deeply integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem such as Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.), making it easy to automate tasks and improve productivity. You can automate repetitive tasks like budgets in Excel where variables are not changed.

When you are interacting with this chatbot, the important thing is that you give it context, a clear action to take and, above all, the tools where it can be supported. For example, you can ask him to review the budgets of a specific area in the last three years and from these define which ones were impacted by inflation based on external indices. The tool is capable of doing this job in just a few minutes, but it will have to access your historical files.

Another important action is that when you give an answer you should give a rating to your work so that you can know if you are doing your job well.

In the case of ChatGPT, the paid tool can be much more useful, both in the desktop version and in the application, however it also has the challenge that you must be very clear when asking for a job.

Unlike Copilot, it is easier to get answers from the chatbot without activating a corporate account, so it is also possible that the information it gives you is more general and at risk of committing plagiarism or having information with errors. To prevent this from happening, you can ask them both to give you their sources.

A difference that Copilot also has is that you can give it more executive or more casual roles and depending on this it will give you a more corporate or more friendly response. If what you want is for him to create a corporate travel itinerary, you will have to give him more details about the daily budget, and adhere the planning to a work schedule, while in the more casual version he can give you broader details of activities.

Since Copilot can access sensitive data, there is a risk of security breaches and privacy issues if not handled properly. Additionally, users can become dependent on the Microsoft ecosystem, which can be a problem if they want to switch to other platforms in the future.

It should be noted that the issue of cost and the learning curve it has is a little broader than that of ChatGPT, so users will have to learn to give clear orders for it to be truly effective.