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Microsoft readies 'groundbreaking' AI-focused Windows release as new leadership takes the helm
(www.windowscentral.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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The AI 'features' all sound like things I have always been able to happily live without. Linux has no need for such nonsense thankfully.
We happily live without most features until they come around.
Just have to see how it plays out.
Knowing Microsoft? Subscription push or subject you to ads and/or other limitations. Windows 11 already does a ton of spying on you…
Problem is...
A) It's Microsoft we're talking about. They will 100% make everything paid and behind a subscription, or bait people in by saying it's free and change their minds 1-2 years later
B) Nobody has the hardware to run good AI models locally (yet), so these features will all be locked behind being connected to your MS account at all times, with a probably terrible privacy policy behind it
C) Does this really have to be baked into the OS? This could've just been an application or an extension. Windows Copilot already exists and 99% of people are clearly not interested.
D) Guaranteed they will just keep pushing AI rather than do any decent improvements to the system. Watch their incredible new OS be Windows 10 with a new coat of paint and ads just like 11. Best they'll do is hide the settings behind another menu, again.
I really want to try out Github Copilot for C++ on VS Code for Linux here shortly. From what I read, it could be VERY useful for what I do.
I don't mind a second brain helping me out with programming.
Eh, there's all kinds of automatic user bahviour predicting that's quite useful without "AI" that could be even better. For example, when I am by the local supermarket and pull up my phone and search for apps it "knows" where I am and suggests parking fee app (which I'm about to use). I can imagine this could be expanded in some unexpected ways with correlations derived from machine learning models.
It could be, but let me tell you this is absolutely the last thing I want. I want my device to do what I tell it to, nothing more and nothing less. If I want the computer to suggest me something, I damn well want to ask it first and I don't need it gathering up all my usage behavior prior to then.
No. Just, no.