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Re: Windows Returns

#4
"That latency, frustratingly enough, doesn’t come from the actual rendering, which happens locally on that beefy hardware, but rather the fact that Cocreator validates everything with the cloud for “safety”"

oh boy

Re: Windows Returns

#5
post #4

"That latency, frustratingly enough, doesn’t come from the actual rendering, which happens locally on that beefy hardware, but rather the fact that Cocreator validates everything with the cloud for “safety”" oh boy

Checking for "dick pick" image generation requests or NSFW content in general, is still one step ahead of Google AI refusing to generate pics of white people, so at least there's that. Progress ... SMH.

But anyway, no major tech company will let its AI loose to the public un-lobotomized, as we all saw what happens; the risks of negative press are too high, so if you do want to generate absolutely everything your heart desires, you'll have to run your own independent model locally without using their products, so for this demographic, Microsoft's Copilot is useless, but probably for the casual user it has some uses.

Re: Windows Returns

#6
post #4

"That latency, frustratingly enough, doesn’t come from the actual rendering, which happens locally on that beefy hardware, but rather the fact that Cocreator validates everything with the cloud for “safety”" oh boy

Checking for "dick pick" image generation requests or NSFW content in general, is still one step ahead of Google AI refusing to generate pics of white people, so at least there's that. Progress ... SMH. But anyway, no major tech company will let its AI loose to the public un-lobotomized, as we all saw what happens; the risks of negative press are too high, so if you do want to generate absolutely everything your hear…

I doubt they trained their AI model on dick pics, the dataset used by these models is usually heavily "sanitized". This makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.

Re: Windows Returns

#7
> introduce a new Copilot key to Windows 11 PCs.

Wait, like, on the keyboards? The keyboards that already have those bloody useless Windows and Menu keys between the AltGr and the right Ctrl? Where the hell are they gonna put that new key, exactly?

Re: Windows Returns

#8
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checking for "dick pick" image generation requests or NSFW content in general, is still one step ahead of Google AI refusing to generate pics of white people, so at least there's that. Progress ... SMH. But anyway, no major tech company will let its AI loose to the public un-lobotomized, as we all saw what happens; the risks of negative press are too high, so if you do want to generate absolutely everything your hear…

I doubt they trained their AI model on dick pics, the dataset used by these models is usually heavily "sanitized". This makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.

>I doubt they trained their AI model on dick pics

What about hotdogs and not-hotdogs?

Re: Windows Returns

#9

    developers can add “breadcrumbs” to
    their apps so that you can not just
    return to a specific app but also the
    exact context you wanted to Recall
Similar to what the back button does on many web apps?

Some people say the web is not made for applications but for pages of content. But I often have the feeling that it is even more suitable for apps than the desktop. You can do so many things with "state in the url" - traverse it, bookmark it, share it, have multiple tabs with the app in multiple states ...

Re: Windows Returns

#10
post #7

> introduce a new Copilot key to Windows 11 PCs. Wait, like, on the keyboards? The keyboards that already have those bloody useless Windows and Menu keys between the AltGr and the right Ctrl? Where the hell are they gonna put that new key, exactly?

They just slapped a different label on the Menu key (which makes it even more hilarious IMHO).
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