Microsoft is bringing A.I. to Windows 11 | Windows Copilot

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Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringing-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-11-unlocking-a-new-era-of-productivity-for-customers-and-developers-with-windows-copilot-and-dev-home/

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Be nice to Sydney, or else say goodbye to your files! :blush:

On a serious note, this will probably turn Windows into the best OS out there. This is some HER-level stuff.

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If they don’t bring back Clippy I’m going to be very disappointed

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So cool to see Microsoft answering this question of “how can someone use gpt4 to interact with their files, folders, and applications on their pc” … literally Windows Copilot lol

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I’m all in if this means that I don’t have to use their terrible settings UI.

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Truly next level stuff here. This could revolutionize office work. Will it have voice input and output?

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Big risk to privacy (I know privacy is a myth and all that shit)

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Yeah I’ll be damned if I’m going to pipe all my interactions with my PC through Microsoft’s servers.

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This just gets even more relevant by the passing day:

Jan Leike OpenAI’s head of alignment Mar 17, 2023 (about 6 days before plugins were released)

Before we scramble to deeply integrate LLMs everywhere in the economy, can we pause and think whether it is wise to do so?

This is quite immature technology and we don’t understand how it works.

If we’re not careful we’re setting ourselves up for a lot of correlated failures.

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This is amazing and I imagine it will stir the waters at Apple. Something like this, but with 100% local inference and deeply integrated into iOS would be huge.

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“How can I rename you Cortana, get Jen Taylor’s voice and give you the speech patterns from Combat Evolved, Halo 3 and Halo 4?”

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I’m a little skeptical so far bc a lot of the uses shown don’t actually seem to have much advantage over current capabilities. E.g. instead of typing “can you send this to ___ in teams?” you can go into teams and attach the file by dragging it and dropping it. Does typing the text instruction instead really save you that much time? Or like, go to spotify and search “productivity music” or “study music” and you get the same impact as this assistant. But if it can handle much more complex tasks, e.g. in excel or word, sure.

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Seems like this could be amazing. A couple things on my wishlist:

  1. Word integration that edits text with track changes so that we can see what changes were made and accept/reject them.

  2. Excel copilot-like autocomplete. I think LLMs are more than capable of generating autocomplete recommendations within excel formulas. Just saving me from having to close all the parentheses at the end would be amazing. Github copilot is so useful for the really mundane stuff like parsing a date string, I would kill to be able to do that in Excel too.

These two alone would revolutionize the consulting industry.

I did kind of laugh at dragging a picture into a message window and then asking an AI to send that picture to a group on Teams when it’s arguably easier to just drag the picture directly into Teams and sending it yourself. Seems like a very unimaginative use case.

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AI is fine when it’s transparent open sources for PC, closed-sources black-boxes no thanks. Let’s wait for an open-sources AI OS.

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The only thing I’ve learned here is that apparently, if I enable all that stuff I disabled on Windows 11, I’ll have ads EVERYWHERE!

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Sounds too good to be true, but I suppose I am jaded because all the previous promises from assistant apps.

I assume it will be a glorified chatbot with severe limitations, but who knows, maybe they will do it right.

I am excited for an AI personal assistant however anticipate a glorified music player with handicapping restrictions.

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Honestly, I am not that overwhelmed by the features presented in the video. It is already possible to search for files or settings with the search bar. Furthermore, the features seem a bit superficial. No one would use the chat function to send the logo to a teams chat. This can simply be done by drag and drop.

I doubt that writing out what I want in a sentence is quicker than going directly into the settings. I really hope that they get more creative with the AI assistant. But maybe, i am also overlooking some use cases

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Windows is planning to use AI to gather more data on you. FTFY

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Name it Cortana 2.0 and call it a day. This is what they wish Cortana was back in Windows 10.

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“Clippy, remove yourself from the computer.”

“I’m sorry, I can’t do that Dave.”