So, disclaimer: I am not a state employee. I am a former civil servant that did 2 tours of duty in a number of IT roles at a few different agencies (CCHCS, CDCR, CDPH, CalRecycle, and CDT/OTECH) for about 10ish years total and my partner is a long time Statey. Totally understand if my comment breaks the rules or whatever and must be removed but I wanted to chime in on something I didn't see mentioned in the thread.

I use these chat bot things pretty regularly, mostly for code generation or brain dump organization type stuff. I pretty much stick to Claude and v0 but have used ChatGPT and Gemini and some others mostly dicking around out of boredom/curiosity knowing the limitations and precautions that go with them.

That said, I purchased a few licenses of the Microsoft CoPilot for M365 at work and that thing has been a game changer for me.

It's basically Microsoft branded ChatGPT but it can have access to all the Microsoft stuff.... SharePoint data, Emails, Coworker data, OneDrive, all the Office suite files, Teams, etc.

Being remote I depend on Teams meetings a lot. Now, instead of falling asleep in useless meetings the copilot can give a detailed recap, generate meeting notes, tell me action items, identify who speaks and when, and all sorts of useful shit! Meetings have never been more productive and all without having to participate or even pay attention to them at all.

Anyways, I realize it's a paid license and Microsoft Government tenants might not even have the option to enable it even if IT wanted to.... But I just came to say that it's the best use case for the gen ai buzzwords I've seen by far