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“We think we’re on the cusp of the next evolution, where AI happens not just in that chatbot and gets naturally integrated into the hundreds of millions of experiences that people use every day,” says Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, in a briefing with The Verge. “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.”

...yikes

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[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.

But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you're alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they're doing on the computer.

My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It's like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.

And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn't need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there's no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was curious about an LLM-powered terminal, so downloaded it to check it out. The first thing I did was ask it to do something like "open my resume file," and instead doing something like "ls | grep -i resume" in the current directory, it ran the find command on root and started hitting all my NFS mounts as well.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah, and I'm sure it also wanted middle managers to write COBOL.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

Can it be disabled?

Sure! There'll be a dialog box that comes up every single time that you wake your PC saying:

"Do you want to activate AwesomeAI™ now? 98 percent of the functions of this OS are crippled or unusable until you activate AwesomeAI™ so Microsoft recommends doing so immediately."

And the two options will be "OMG Yes!" , or "Maybe Later".

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 8 points 1 week ago

Then it's a good thing it's been a very long time since I last had to care about what Microsoft wants me to do with my computers.

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Beyond that sounding tedious as fuck, how much will that actually improve workflow? Or is this one of those features that sounds good to people with C level intelligence, and the rest of us just have to pretend we're using.

Yeah, I absolutely hate talking to devices, it's inefficient and frustrating. Why would I want that as the primary interface to my computer?

Complex UX should be solved in two ways:

  • simplify common operations - i.e. build widgets for weather, news, etc; the more open the system, the easier it is to offload this to the community
  • improve docs to educate users on power-user functionality

If I'm asking an AI tool how to do something with your product, you need to fix your product.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Someone watched Star Trek and took their interfaces a bit too literally

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[–] cheesorist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

HOT CILFS IN A 3 MILE RADIUS WANT TO TALK TO YOU

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I like Windows. I like AI. But this like is based on me having ownership over them. Microsoft is what has convinced me to move to Linux when an official SteamOS Desktop is released.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or you can just as easily install a Linux distro, because that's all steamOS is but slightly game-ified. If anything you'd probably have a better desktop experience with a distro built with that in mind.

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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Valve could easily enter the OS space. They have hardware and a dedicated user-base. They've built some good will with the Linux community. They're already doing the work to make other stuff work well with Linux. I'm not always a fan of walking too close to the corporate edge with paid software and DRM and proprietary blobs and whatever, but at this point we have to figure out how to get everyone out of Windows, even 100 year old Grandma Geraldine who plays bejeweled on Facebook all day. I probably won't run SteamOS as a primary OS, but if I could dual boot it instead of Win10 on my gaming PC that would lesson the pain of MS's betrayal and the loss of some Windows-only games a little bit.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"We are on the cusp of the next AI evolution, in which we, the tech company, can simply say the word 'Money' to our AI, and it will automatically transfer money directly from our investors into our wallets. Future versions won't require us to say anything, permitting AIs to write their own next press release for budding, just-around-the-corner technology in an E-mail to investors."

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

We always knew AI would lead to this one day. But it you ask me that this day is still far away. We‘re not there yet.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago

The thought of how the computer would react to me telling my cat to get down off the desk is . . . both amusing and disturbing.

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I don’t want to meet it.

[–] CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

They are like two to three years out from this being viable in the slightest. If they push this it will be hilariously disastrous.

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