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It’s to make it easier for the end user to do what they want to. People are best at communicating by talking and writing, so having the ability to get things done using natural language is kinda the holy grail.
Being able to summarise/edit/create documents/images/videos, automate tasks, change settings, etc by a simple conversation is an end user dream.
How many misunderstandings happen because people are bad at both writing and talking?
The answer is, a great deal.
Your answer is nonsense.
There is no real use case for the user. There are only use cases for the company.
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That's not a use case for users. That's a use case for a very specific sub group who likely weren't using the OS at all. Not saying it's not good they would be able to if that works for them, which I doubt.
Its still not a reason to foist it onto all of us
So you can't think of a single reason why anyone that's not disabled would want to use AI on a computer? No reason anyone would want to use ChatGPT? Generate an image? Re-write some text? Summarise some text or a video? None at all? Really?
Being baked into the OS means it can do infinitely more than a browser based one can.
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Being baked into the OS means it can access parts of the OS. Asking ChatGPT in firefox to turn off HDR on your PC doesn't work. Using Copilot built in to the OS means it can.
Oh so you do know the difference but you pretended you didn’t to try and act like there isn’t any?
What “total surveillance” are you talking about? You have full control over your data with copilot.
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You questioned why it exists while knowing the reason why it exists and pretending it doesn’t exist.
Having copilot built in to windows is basically "smart-home"-ing your computer. No one needs to ask home assistant to turn off their lights, but it damn sure is handy and most often faster than doing it manually - same with my example of turning HDR on/off.
Having it built in means you could ask it to interact with every piece of your computer. If you can't see how there is no USE for this, you've got a very narrow mind and no ability to think outside the box.
Do you think toggling hdr is the only thing copilot can do? Do you not understand examples?
If you love being stuck in the dark ages and hating all innovation and new tech, go for it.
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So you understand how having integrations with different systems works, and the benefits it provides...........but can't understand that the same thing applies to AI built into an OS?
Amazing.
I literally gave you one - HDR toggling. You disregarded it because you didn't want there to be any reasons.
Here's another - you could ask copilot to check your emails for an invite to a party that you are expecting, add the party to your calendar, create an item on your to-do list to get a present, and forward the invite to your partner.
How's that? Is that not something that could be useful?
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Seriously? Because not everything supports HDR lol
If you know the keyboard shortcut, sure. With a mouse how do you do it in a second while you're in a game?
Great! So there we have it, you recognise that you were wrong. We got there in the end, hooray!
How exactly do you think your privacy is being eroded? It's all on-device and you have privacy settings to control what MS can learn from.
"MS" don't have to, just copilot on your device, without any feedback to MS.
AI can already interact with third party products.
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SDR content looking bad when HDR is enabled, especially just the desktop and basic OS, has been a thing for years on windows. Guessing you either didn’t actually have a real HDR monitor, or just didn’t realise it shouldn’t look like what it did.
Cloud-based use of AI doesn’t mean that they use your data for training or anything either - if you’d spent even 2 minutes looking at copilot in Windows you’d know this. On device or in cloud, you have privacy settings that control it.
Ok you're so far down the anti-AI hole that you're just being ridiculous. No point even bothering. "Disabled people don't use Windows" lol One of the dumbest hot takes I've heard in a while.
Showing your ignorance and short-sightedness right here. Just because you can't see uses, despite them being literally provided to you, doesn't mean there aren't any. It means that you can't think of them or understand them. That's a "you" problem.
The fact AI has yet to do anything other than increase costs, increase the time taken to ship anything (particularly code), decrease trust and socialise the cost of data centres and electricity...
I'd say it's an all of us problem and a fucking stupid problem to have.
This is just straight up lying though lol. All you're doing is showing your ignorance and complete lack of awareness of the world around you.
Demonstrate a single false claim
You really think that the current "AI" has not done a single good thing? You think that no one in the entire world has been able to benefit in any way, at all, from using AI?
Yup.
Ok well at least we know you’re not worth trying to have a rational conversation with now.
This is what people are currently doing right? people are not writing mails anymore, this just became too time consuming.
At the same time this may be the limit of the current AI models. Me wanting to configure something on my computer that can be Googled and the AI does this for me on verbal prompt is kind of stupid but people are stupid.
The real danger with this is total surveillance of your activity and possibly making you and your office job obsolete. At least they are attempting this.
How is that stupid? Isn't that the kind of things that everyone should want? "Hey copilot turn off HDR" is a lot easier than remembering the 4 or 5 button shortcut, or opening the settings menu and finding it, isn't it? Why would anyone think this is stupid?
This isn't work related, and the enterprise versions of windows all have very strict controls over this stuff where microsoft do not ever get the data.