‘Kind of useless’: CSIRO on Microsoft AI and the ‘productivity paradox’


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

A CSIRO trial of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence tool revealed it can save time by automating low level activities, but its difficulties in more complex tasks and missing domain knowledge led to a “productivity paradox” that has complicated a decision about wider deployment.

Gains in summarising meetings, email drafting and information retrieval were often offset by a need for “extensive verification and correction” of AI-generated outputs from Microsoft 365 Copilot, which …

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