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#259 What Microsoft’s Misunderstood Copilot Study Actually Means for the Language Industry
23 minutes Posted Aug 7, 2025 at 11:00 am.
Intro
Purpose of the Paper
Data Sources
Privacy Considerations
Study Methodology
Key Findings
Occupations and AI Applicability
Misinterpretations of the Study
AI's Role in Language Work
Limitations
Impact Score Interpretation
Business Relevance
Additional Considerations
Anomalies in the Study
Use of AI in Analysis
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Slator’s Head of Research Anna Wyndham joins Florian on the pod to discuss Microsoft’s research paper “Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI”, a study that stirred significant debate across social media. The paper, based on 200,000 anonymized Microsoft Copilot interactions, aims to understand what tasks people ask AI to perform and how effectively those tasks are completed. Pairing this with the US O*NET database of occupational tasks, researchers created a...