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A little while ago, Microsoft teased a new feature for Windows which allowed people to control the operating system using their voice. Some people weren't so excited about this announcement (including me), but the truth was, the jury was out on how good this feature was until we got to see it in action. Microsoft has tried several times in the past to add proper voice commands to Windows, and the introduction of LLMs that can parse English requests seemed like the perfect time to try again.

Well, the feature began landing on peoples PCs a month ago, and Microsoft wants us all to start using it. To encourage us, the company has begun bringing in tech influencers to show off its capabilities. Unfortunately, a new video posted by Microsoft seems to have done the inverse effect, as users are complaining that Copilot Actions may not be the productivity booster they hoped it'd be.
Microsoft's new Copilot video shows a pretty sluggish AI assistant

Over on the official Windows X account, the company posted a video showing Judner Aura, a tech content creator with the channel @UrAvgConsumer, trying out the new "Hey, Copilot" feature. The goal was pretty simple: Judner wanted Copilot to adjust the text size on the screen to make it bigger for their grandma. You can see the result below.

So, people have pointed out a few issues with this video. First, Copilot leads Judner down the Display path, when really, it would have done a better job going through the Accessibility tools instead. Regardless, if you go along with what Copilot suggested for a moment, you hit the second problem: Copilot tells Judner to set the scale level to a value it's already set at. Judner realizes this and manually sets the scale higher. Boom, mission accomplished.

However, one thing this video does show is how powerless Copilot is in its current state. People in the replies make the point that, if they asked an AI assistant to perform a specific job, they'd rather it actually performed the job instead of doing a step-by-step guide.