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Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog
(blogs.microsoft.com)
That's gonna be a "no" from me, dawg.
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Cortana, not the Microsoft assistant, was an actual AI. So Microsoft, in it's infinite wisdom, ditched the name that actually made sense and went with.. copilot. 😬
It makes sense they ditched the name honestly, Cortana has a garbage reputation and they're chasing trends with the copilot name.
It's a shame. The Windows Phone version of Cortana was much better IMO than Siri and Google Assistant at the time. (And tbh Google Assistant seems to be getting worse over time.) It just wasn't a good fit at the time for desktop PCs and Microsoft had no mobile offering to make it the default.
As controversial as it is, this might be my favourite AI assistant name; it's a fun phrasing that explains it's intended use well.
I still won't use it of course, but that's just because I don't care.
Upgrading Cortana would have been a much better move, imo. I could see Apple not wanting to make Siri AI, as Siri is and has been a household name. Cortana, on the other hand, was used by basically no one.
Especially since they already had the perfect name: Clippy!
Will AI Bonzi ever exist?
Should have waited to blow their load with the name Cortana until they had an actual VI type technology. Not the Google assistant knockoff that Cortana was.
Soon actual copilots will have to either be replaced with AI or rename their position to not be associated with that garbage.
Vice pilot
"But... Copilot doesn't have titties .."
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So it's finally happening. I'm honestly a bit pessimistic on the whole AI integrated into the system thing, I hope there's an easy option to turn it off or dismiss it entirely. I can see myself using this to ask it where the hell the setting I'm looking for is, but that's about it.
I also bet this will be way more useful than microsoft's unhinged forums for tech support. It can't get worse with "have you tried running nfc /scannow" as a response to every unrelated problem.
The easy way to turn it off is not paying for it. It’s like $30/user/month.
Oh man, I bet Microsoft's sales department is stoked. Selling AI to clueless executives is going to be super easy and at $30 a user a month, probably with a minimum six month license or something, they're gonna make bank selling snake oil.
I'm sure it can be bundled with office subscriptions for a discounted price of an extra 45$ a month, perfect to accelerate your office's productivity.
Oh. I thought there'd be a free tier like Bing.
Bing is the free tier, to get people to use it. Co-pilot was never going to be free. They need to recoup the $10 Billion investment in OpenAI.
Here's a link to a page that was gone before I finished copying the url and doesn't forward anywhere.
Omg, I saw an answer on there the other day from 2018 talking about "software conflicts". They don't even know what they're talking about most of the time.
I can see Microsoft being even more aggressive with beating features into you with windows. Best steer clear if possible
Layers in paint is huge tbf
This is the only cool thing in Windows 11. It’s not worth leaving Windows 10 for 11, but it’s definitely cool.
Microsoft blogs even sound like corpo bullshit.
Clippy Reborn!
I get good sounding garbage out of "AI" four times out of five. This sounds like paying $30 to crash my productivity. But at least running the backend uses a gross amount of power and water.
I get extremely good results out of AI and I am happy to pay 20 euros per month.
I am sure it will find many happy customers
Yeah AI unfortunately suffers from needing an operator that can explain their ideas clearly in written text, because that will directly change the quality of the output. You also have to be at least baseline knowledgeable about what you're asking it or you won't notice the errors.
You can't just be a computer illiterate person and ask it to make a python script for you and expect it to work. Like most things people aren't realizing that it's intended to amplify the workload of someone in a professional field that can do the job themselves and are looking to subsidize the grunt work or the time it takes to write an email or search the web for something.
For those tasks it's amazing and really helpful. I am in IT though so we definitely have bigger use cases than most. We are constantly having to integrate some bullshit application that HR thinks they need, etc.
With AI I can search the web for relevant config commands or vendor documentation and have it assemble the data for me. It's not always correct but it gets me on the right track consistently and faster than had I spent that time on the fourth page of DDG trying to see what I'm supposed to clear in the firewall for the manager that's bitching shes not able to use whatever they want.
Teams is already sucking up proprietary data and running ML on it, any company stupid enough to use that and this together deserves how bad this will screw them in their markets down the road.
All of that data is worth billions to the stock market and competitors, and Microsoft is breached constantly.
The design of that logo and splash image is taking me back to 2006
We want clippy!
Actually I don't care tho cuz everything I need is comfortably on my Linux install.
I am so glad my PC does not support windows 11.
It just struck me that artificial intelligence is an accurate term after all, just in a different sense than the classic idea of a non-living consciousness.
It's "artificial intelligence" in that it's a substitute for real intelligence.
Yes, never sure why people had such an issue with the term.
Example, artificial hair is a broad term, and can span from looking like a straw broom to indistinguishable from real hair, and everything in between.
In science fiction there's sometimes a distinction between virtual intelligence (something that simulates intelligence but isn't really intelligent) and actual artificial intelligence (something really intelligent but created through science and engineering instead of natural biological evolution).
Large language models would almost certainly be VI by those definitions, not AI.
Right, but that wasn't really my point. I mean "artificial intelligence," as the term has come to be used in this current world in which, for example, film and television producers want to have large language models write scripts, is a substitute for intelligence, in that people who don't possess actual intelligence want to use it to create strings of words with which to impress other people who don't possess actual intelligence. It's pretend intelligence by and for people who don't possess the real kind.
So clippy who now will send all your personal data to Microsoft for their sales team.
Switch to Linux, fuck everything about Microsoft