Gemini vs. Copilot: I tested the AI tools on 7 everyday tasks, and it wasn’t even close

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Hello, fellow humans! AI chatbots will soon replace us. They have access to more knowledge than our puny brains can hold, and they can easily be turned into powerful agents that can handle routine tasks with ease.

Or so we are told. I keep trying Microsoft Copilot, which uses OpenAI’s GPT-5 as its default LLM, and I keep being disappointed. Occasionally, it gets things right, but just as often — or so it seems — it…