Microsoft has revealed Windows Copilot, its new AI assistant | Mashable.
Microsoft reveals its new AI assistant Windows Copilot
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Microsoft has announced Windows Copilot, an AI assistant for Windows 11. Placed behind a button on your taskbar, Windows Copilot is designed to work across various different apps; perform operations such as copying, pasting or using the Snipping Tool; and generate summaries or revisions of your content.
Windows Copilot will also work with Microsoft's AI chatbot Bing Chat to pull up information and answer questions, such as the time in another time zone or what flights are available to a given destination (Bing is also now being tapped by ChatGPT for live search results). In this respect Windows Copilot appears to replicate much of the function of Microsoft's previous AI assistant Cortana, but with enhanced productivity features that can carry out tasks as well as provide information. Microsoft shut down its Cortana mobile apps in 2021, and scaled back its prevalence in Windows 11.
Previews for Windows Copilot will begin June 11. Mashable has a more complete rundown of Windows Copilot's features, and has reached out to Microsoft for more details.
Microsoft previously revealed Copilot for Microsoft 365 in March, touting it as capable of providing first drafts in Word or entire presentations with a single prompt. Now Microsoft appears to be freeing the Copilot from being siloed in apps, allowing it to spread throughout the entire Windows 11 operating system.
Microsoft also announced that the Microsoft Store on Windows will soon be infused with AI as well, adding a curated section dedicated to AI products as well as customer review summaries generated by — you guessed it — AI.
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ReplyDeleteI am guessing they'll need me to signed in to my Microsoft Account on my PC
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"Copilot, please turn off all Windows settings that offer sponsored suggestions or display advertisements."
ReplyDeleteWow the people in that demo are easily impressed by that clipart coffee company logo..
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ReplyDeleteJust a reminder that Windows 10 and Linux will not have this. (which is a good thing)
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What's not to like?!! I'm sure Microsoft will only only use my social graph for good & not for profit...
I think it's time we just bow down to our corporate masters and raise our arms for our S&M handcuffs.
Can I hide and disable it so it doesn't even appear on my toolbar or use my CPU/RAM/etc.?
ReplyDeleteYou know, after trying to get it to sing "Daisy" and all the other obvious questions or suggestions one might pose to an AI. ;)
Can Copilot answer the phone? Can it identify scammers and block/report them? Can it gather information from legitimate callers so we can decide whether we want to talk to them? Can it recognize the phone numbers and voices of known callers and pass them through automatically? In other words, is Copilot a real personal assistant or not?
ReplyDeleteI bet it will get to this task soon. No worries.
DeleteMicrosoft + OpenAI are really the most exciting tech companies in the world right now. This looks great. Also, I think LLMs are an accessibility revolution in the making.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but I'm not surprised to see people against it. To me, it just seems to be an application with the same permissions as the user, running on AI.
DeleteAt the same time, in a perfect privacy world where we could actually have this type of assistance worry free? This is exactly how I want to compute. I want to talk to my PC and have it simplify the problems I face every day. I can't believe people aren't impressed by what this is capable of.
But I do worry about the privacy implications of this. I'm hoping that we can get some things similar as this to be able to run locally and privately. I'd even love to have a local one on a server that is an assistant for my entire home. So long as privacy is respected (which I doubt it is) I think this is amazing.
I’m disappointed that tech companies still have the “let’s push it and we’ll figure out privacy later” attitude. Haven’t we learned anything from the past couple of decades?
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DeleteThe Wright Brothers weren't selling passenger tickets to people while they were crashing their planes though.
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DeleteIs this going to have voice recognition? Typing a long winded question to do basic things doesn't seem very efficient.
ReplyDeleteObviously. Bing Chat already opens in voice-first mode in the mobile apps.
DeleteHm not very impressive demo..
ReplyDeleteSomething must be wrong if it is easier to write to the computer to send an image than to actually do it through a button.
Something is wrong. It's called Windows. Potentially this could side step a host of fundamentally flaws in the worst OS in the world. It will also likely introduce so many more.
DeleteIn your World. Mine is much different and very usable.
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DeleteHave you ever worked for a large organization with a wide variety of users with various skill levels and backgrounds? There are things that are already as simple as a button where people don't know enough just to push it. If people can ask their computer to do something and it reliably do or show them how to do it, it's a step up from both trying to find an answer on Google and interrupting their computer literate coworker.
DeleteThat could be true, but it still shows that there is a massive flaw in the UI/UX, its a bit like saying DOS is superior to Windows because the interface was less complex and you could write to the computer what it should do.
DeleteWriting to the computer what it should do is just a bad and old interface. Something better would be context aware buttons, AI that understood that a business document should be sent to the coworkers in the company the document is about, etc.
I feel like the biggest impact here is going to be wiping out a lot of people trying to be first movers on these features.
ReplyDeleteThe other is how are they going to monetize it? Judging by my OpenAI API cost, the compute cost on rolling this out to everyone with Windows 11 is going to be insane.
Probably by selling your data, since I'm sure they already do that undercover.
DeleteThis 100%. With this enabled, the default will be to exfiltrate every bit of data from your PC. They will sell that to the highest bidder. I may be a embellishing slightly, but in the whole, it is not trustworthy.
DeleteJust like the warnings all over these chatbots, putting any personal or sensitive or identifying information in these chats is probably a bad idea.
DeleteFolks, let's be straight. Beyond the glossy visuals of this announcement video: Do you really see yourself using this every day?
ReplyDeleteI mean, just from a UI perspective: You click on the Copilot icon in the taskbar in the middle or, depending on the settings, left hand side of your screen to have a sidebar on the right pop up where you type in a few words to play some music or to post an image to a Teams channel.
Or even more ironic: You start getting things done on your PC by asking how to get things done and being told to use the Dark Theme.
The infantilization of modern consumers has no end.
Clippy at least kept that embarrassed smile on while torturing us.
I know what I can do with my computer, but I might want to know how to do it better or easier. That's it. That's all I would use this for.
DeleteI can get it to suggest to me different ways to complete a tedious task.
I can have it do the tedious task for me.
I can get it to look into multiple documents and, maybe, more accurately find what I'm looking for than the built-in Windows Explorer search.
I can have it build me PowerPoint presentations or Word documents that I don't care to do.
I can maybe use it as a way of tracking steps that I'm performing? I don't know. I want to use it.
Do you still use Google? Did you imagine you'd be doing that years ago when you first tried Google? Probably not. Things change, just wait.
DeleteI don't know if I would use it right from the desktop, but I could definitely see myself using it within apps such as Office.
DeleteI don’t mind it. I definitely don’t miss needing to know the command line in order to launch Warcraft in Windows 3.1.
DeleteAnything that makes computing more accessible is generally a good thing. Rather than having to learn the vocabulary of the operating system, LLMs help the interface adapt to us via conversational language.
That said, I don’t think they’re taking away your command line.
The local integration looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteLooks great to me. And I'm an Apple die-hard.
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DeleteNo, let Windows Phone lay where it rests.
DeleteI do want them to bring a Windows 11 ARM variant onto mobile devices, however.
Think smartphones, foldables, tablets etc...
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DeleteIt's not farfetched, I use MacOS but also use Windows as well.
DeleteI think this looks great, can't wait to try it out.
Cortana watching Microsoft announce Copilot for Windows:
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DeleteIt's scary how fast this is being pushed into Windows -is this being processed locally or is potentially all my Windows content (for summary) being sent to MS? Will it work offline on a laptop (on a plane)? If it's changing settings, how aware is it of, say errors that might occur in doing so (say it switches off the VPN adapter instead of the wifi for some reason, etc_
ReplyDeleteLol of course not locally. Local systems can’t run these big models so I think it’s usual API call
DeleteOpen Source projects are close to making it possible, and I'm sure Google is working on it, based on their previous push for local computation and the Tensor
DeleteAgreed - in which case, what about the offline use cases, the implications of sending data in corporate or personal environments, etc. At least we use to think of the web as a separate thing - now Microsoft is saying just ask the "os" and they'll kindly route that data to a web AI to assess and send back.
Delete100% no chance they're running the LLM locally. It will be on MS servers. But maybe it will have some limited offline functionality for simple requests it can recognize?
DeleteHow fast? Today's AI is a product of many years of trying similar things. From Clippy to Cortana, they are all infant AI in the works. This has been a really slow thing. Glad to see it become popular finally too.
DeleteWith each of those it was a carefully designed feature - with this, it seems like a gateway to windows setting APIs tied to an imprecise command line (chat is definitely not the most efficient way for a lot of activities, and at least a command line would give consistent results)!
DeleteNot sensing anything super revolutionary here.
ReplyDeleteI suppose this will marginally improve the abhorrent experience of changing settings within Windows (a problem that Microsoft themselves created).
Nothing revolutionary? You mean you can already just talk to your Windows PC and tell it what to do and to give you suggestions?
DeleteI mean, I know of Cortana, but I don't think it did this.
You mean you can already just talk to your Windows PC and tell it what to do
DeleteActually, I can. Sure, it's not a pretty little interface like Copilot, but I can absolutely input commands to a PC.
to give you suggestions?
This is probably AI's best feature. But again, nothing super revolutionary. Suggestions require input and Paradox of Choice will prevent most people from even getting to that step.
Tech enthusiasts will worship this technology, while the average user will continue to be confused as to why their Windows UI gets cluttered with ham-fisted Microsoft products.
Not every evolution has to be a revolution.
DeleteIntroducing LLM AI capabilities into your traditional OS workstation workflow just makes sense. I use chatGPT everyday. I will use this to for a single reason: Better productivity.
Ah so dropping a bunch of file and being able to ask any question about anything in it isn't revolutionary?
DeleteAny complex tool must be learned. Fail to learn it and you will fail to use it.
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