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Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs

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Re: Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs

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I really am looking forward to this particular fad being over, at this point. Yes, let’s just shove LLMs into absolutely bloody everything, why not?

They’re still advertising crypto “investments” at the airport.

Language models are gonna be here a while for better or worse

Re: Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs

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I want Microsoft Azure Bing Copilot everywhere. In start, in browser, in command prompt, in Excel, in XBox Live

Yes and it is crucial that it be integrated and enabled at a hardware level so that I can never opt out in any meaningful sense.

They’re sort of doing that already - MS says an “AI PC” must have a Copilot button. Not a generic AI button that can be mapped to competitors as well, but a Copilot specific button.

Re: Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs

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The "AI" isn't even good. Please don't force integrate more bad features. I don't need an unavoidable assistant that hallucinates, ignores me, and otherwise can't follow instructions.

How about first making a serious adult home OS in 2024 that isn't a data mining farm, security nightmare, and enthusiastic surveillance portal. What we now have is clownish outside of MacOS, server OSs, or a lot of finagling. The lack of true options at this late date is unreal.

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The "AI" isn't even good. Please don't force integrate more bad features. I don't need an unavoidable assistant that hallucinates, ignores me, and otherwise can't follow instructions. How about first making a serious adult home OS in 2024 that isn't a data mining farm, security nightmare, and enthusiastic surveillance portal. What we now have is clownish outside of MacOS, server OSs, or a lot of finagling. The lack o…

Yeah I tried copilot and it actually tried to gaslight me into changing the subject. If I want that I would speak to humans.

Incidentally I am 100% macOS now. Not because it’s good but because it’s least shit.

Re: Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs

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I wish MS would set to unveil its vision for a not shitty high power Windows laptop for work, even the basics barely work: https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1791925515281899810

Dedicated nvidia GPUs in laptops have been a death sentence for decades. It used to be lead-free solder having poor fatigue properties combined with the GPU going through a lot of hot/cold cycles, probably combined with laptop cooling (with dust in the fins).

Annoyingly the market for "very fast CPU with lots of ram and no GPU" seems to be too small to sell to, even before the current AI everywhere movement. Right now there are 16 core ryzen chips out there (e.g. the 7945HX) but I can't find a laptop with one that doesn't also have an nvidia chip burning a hole through the chassis.

(the above probably holds for dedicated gpus by other vendors, though I can't remember ever seeing one in real life)

Re: Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs

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The "AI" isn't even good. Please don't force integrate more bad features. I don't need an unavoidable assistant that hallucinates, ignores me, and otherwise can't follow instructions. How about first making a serious adult home OS in 2024 that isn't a data mining farm, security nightmare, and enthusiastic surveillance portal. What we now have is clownish outside of MacOS, server OSs, or a lot of finagling. The lack o…

I thought that was the point of windows, since 7ish and very obviously since 10? It exists to echo interesting information about the users back to microsoft who then profit from that. I hear the security model is getting better of late, perhaps because the information is less valuable if it's available outside of microsoft.

Or if you're less cynical, stream information back to microsoft so they can improve the product in other ways.

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