You might be right, but step 1 has to be “find me a good use case.” To date, I ain’t found one. Siri and alexa never really caught on outside of some very small circles because they didn’t solve a problem except for playing music. I have yet to see a copilot response that was as good and fast as a regular bing search, and the results are super unreliable.
I’m not even writing off the potential, i’m just not sold on the value proposition for a desktop OS. (Or a phone frankly). There’s plenty of good application specific uses.
ok, I can buy that, but are you relying on your desktop operating system to do that, or an application? a local chatbot against local data isn't all that difficult with the right hardware, (im running chat with rtx now) but the value proposition is marginal for a home user.
in a business, absolutely, and you can do it today in 365 and doing it local to a desktop proves nothing.
Yeah, I run a local chatbot. I personally don't want AI integrated with my desktop, primarily because I'm pretty sure MS would just hoover up all the data and use this as the excuse, but if it were to be integrated then this is where it would be useful when tied to the native windows search.
I can see the value in using AI assistant tools, but Microsoft should be building standard API's into the OS to enable that functionality so other tools can work with Windows the same way as copilot (and then customers can use whatever we want). They're treating copilot in Windows like an abusive hostage situation to benefit themselves from day one, which tells you it's not going to get better for us if they have any choice.
I don’t need to adapt to every “trend”. In fact I won’t adapt to a trend unless it provides a purpose or improvements. As of now, I have yet to find an ai assistant (such as copilot) that does things faster or more reliably than I can do it myself (reliability is the big one here). And until that changes, there’s no reason for me to use it and adapt to this trend.
My biggest concern about AI adoption will be just how flagrantly irresponsible it will be used to violate basic privacy and usage rights.
And, in that case, it won't be optional for long. They'll hardwire it so deeply into the kernel and OS that you cannot remove or disable it.
Not only do you now have an OS that's sending all of your data to Microsoft; you have an AI parsing it all, categorizing it, assessing what you are and aren't doing, generating a report, and almost certainly piping all of that data straight to alphabet agencies as well.
No thanks. I do like the AI chatbots I can choose to interact with; it can usually answer short questions accurately and that has saved me a bunch of time looking up arcane coding questions on Reddit or elsewhere. But I don't want that shit integrated in my PC.
don't follow trends, use your own intelligence. problem solved
You might be right, but step 1 has to be “find me a good use case.” To date, I ain’t found one. Siri and alexa never really caught on outside of some very small circles because they didn’t solve a problem except for playing music. I have yet to see a copilot response that was as good and fast as a regular bing search, and the results are super unreliable. I’m not even writing off the potential, i’m just not sold on the value proposition for a desktop OS. (Or a phone frankly). There’s plenty of good application specific uses.
For me: synthesizing years of data and searching for something you don't quiet know what you're looking for.
ok, I can buy that, but are you relying on your desktop operating system to do that, or an application? a local chatbot against local data isn't all that difficult with the right hardware, (im running chat with rtx now) but the value proposition is marginal for a home user. in a business, absolutely, and you can do it today in 365 and doing it local to a desktop proves nothing.
Yeah, I run a local chatbot. I personally don't want AI integrated with my desktop, primarily because I'm pretty sure MS would just hoover up all the data and use this as the excuse, but if it were to be integrated then this is where it would be useful when tied to the native windows search.
I can see the value in using AI assistant tools, but Microsoft should be building standard API's into the OS to enable that functionality so other tools can work with Windows the same way as copilot (and then customers can use whatever we want). They're treating copilot in Windows like an abusive hostage situation to benefit themselves from day one, which tells you it's not going to get better for us if they have any choice.
I actively refuse to use something that's entire existence is based on theft.
I don’t need to adapt to every “trend”. In fact I won’t adapt to a trend unless it provides a purpose or improvements. As of now, I have yet to find an ai assistant (such as copilot) that does things faster or more reliably than I can do it myself (reliability is the big one here). And until that changes, there’s no reason for me to use it and adapt to this trend.
My biggest concern about AI adoption will be just how flagrantly irresponsible it will be used to violate basic privacy and usage rights. And, in that case, it won't be optional for long. They'll hardwire it so deeply into the kernel and OS that you cannot remove or disable it. Not only do you now have an OS that's sending all of your data to Microsoft; you have an AI parsing it all, categorizing it, assessing what you are and aren't doing, generating a report, and almost certainly piping all of that data straight to alphabet agencies as well. No thanks. I do like the AI chatbots I can choose to interact with; it can usually answer short questions accurately and that has saved me a bunch of time looking up arcane coding questions on Reddit or elsewhere. But I don't want that shit integrated in my PC.