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Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by aarond0623 »

torginus wrote: post #204
luke727 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.

This is the funniest thing, considering it lacks 90% of the features included freeware text editors written in some student's spare time back in the 90s. It's basically a fancy textbox. Microsoft's own people can't use the toolkits they write, as evidenced by the React component in the start menu(!)

It's not even a competent textbox. Try to scan barcodes into it for example, or use it with Autohotkey. It has some sort of buffering issue and lags horribly whenever characters are input faster than a human.

Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by herbst »

tetrisgm wrote: post #334
herbst wrote: post #271

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Just do it really. Most people just say it, and will be back for the next feature to complain again

I’ve done it a few times. The gaming experience was lacking. I’m not a fan of virtualization and containers everywhere either, or having to enter my admin password every day. I’ll wait for the Steam console OS to be live.

That's fedora with proton and some tweaks. No reason to wait

Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

the_snooze wrote: post #39

>For example, if you ask ChatGPT’s Agent to book a travel, it’ll open Chromium on Linux in an Azure container, search the query, visit different websites, navigate each page and book a flight ticket using your saved credentials. An AI Agent tries to mimic a human, and it can perform tasks on your behalf while you sit back and relax. Big tech has repeatedly shown that they are not good stewards of end users' privacy a…

>Big tech has repeatedly shown that they are not good stewards of end users' privacy and agency.

I can understand Google or Facebook being bad because their whole business model is based around selling your attention and agency. Microsoft shouldn't be as bad because they are selling a product but in many ways they appear worse.

Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

testartr wrote: post #141

Satya said in a podcast the majority of future users for Windows/Office will be agents, not humans. this aligns with moving in that direction.

Is that because he thinks real users won't put up with it anymore?

Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by gloosx »

arunc wrote: post #91

How worse can this get? Let's share more product ideas for Microsoft.

CoPilot for BIOS

Integrated CoPilot chip, mandatory to install Windows

CoPilot for mouse movements. Just ask where you want to move your mouse next, agent does the job.

CoPilot which will entertain you while windows updates are installing

CoPilot-assistant to install Chrome browser

CoPilot for windows registry

Master-CoPilot to control all other copilots

CoPilot which will play games and watch movies instead of you, then give you 5-minute summaries to save your time

Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by fsflover »

M95D wrote: post #398
fsflover wrote: post #303

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It seems Ubuntu is made exactly for these moments, to dismiss GNU/Linux as another spying OS. If you leave Windows to retain the control for your computing, choose any other GNU/Linux among many. I chose Debian.

I do use Gentoo currently, but it's so very hard to keep programs from monitoring what happens in the system via dbus and the only firewall for outgoing connections, OpenSnitch, hard-depends on it. Running every major program in a container is NOT a solution. So far Linus has kept these things outside the kernel, but he won't live forever.

This is why my daily driver is Qubes OS.

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Post by hotsauceror »

prirai wrote: post #258
Neil44 wrote: post #225

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The only reason I use Notepad is that it opens instantly. A fancy think with loads of features that's slow to open should be a new product.

Notepad--

This made me spit out my coffee, thanks.

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Post by kbrkbr »

ChicagoDave wrote: post #311
Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #229

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> OpenAI enabled its users to have a sext conversation. Considering that this is only with verified adults, how is this "evil"? I find it more evil to treat full grown adult users as kids and heavily censor their use of LLMs. (Not to detract from the rest of your post, with which I agree).

My point is not about morality. It’s about ROI focus and that OpenAI can’t and won’t ever return anything remotely close to what’s been invested. Adult content is not getting them closer to profitability. And if anyone believes the AGI hyperbole, oh boy I have a bridge and a mountain to sell. LLM tech will never lead to AGI. You need a tech that mimics synapses. It doesn’t exist.

I have also a hard time understanding how AGI will magically appear.

LLMs have their name for a reason: they model human language (output given an input) from human text (and other artifacts).

And now the idea seems to be that when we do more of it, or make it even larger, it will stop to be a model of human language generation? Or that human language generation is all there is to AGI?

I wish someone could explain the claim to me...

Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

nilslindemann wrote: post #181

That's the start of the end of Windows. People don't want getting spied, and Linux is ready.

Windows market share has been declining for some time now.

https://www.gizmochina.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Deskto...

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