Microsoft Wants You To Talk To Your PC and Let AI Control It (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/143217/microsoft-wants-you-to-talk-to-your-pc-and-let-ai-control-it
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/799768/microsoft-windows-ai-copilot-voice-vision-launch
Copilot Vision, which streams what a user sees on their screen, is rolling out globally, enabling the system to troubleshoot PC problems, help with app usage, and provide task guidance. Microsoft is simultaneously testing Copilot Actions through a limited preview, allowing the AI to take autonomous actions on local machines like editing folders of photos. The company is also integrating Copilot into the Windows taskbar and launching advertisements promoting these features, coinciding with Windows 10's end-of-support earlier this week.
Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's consumer chief marketing officer, said the company wants users upgrading to Windows 11 to "experience what it means to have a PC that's not just a tool, but a true partner." Microsoft attempted to popularize Cortana, a voice assistant, on Windows 10 a decade ago. Last year, the company released Recall, a feature that automatically captured screenshots, drawing criticism over privacy.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/799768/microsoft-windows-ai-copilot-voice-vision-launch
Why don't these companies give it up... (Score:4, Insightful)
... with the voice control nonsense. If you're physically disabled then voice control is obviously a major win, but for everyone else its almost always much quicker to type with a keyboard or use a mouse/finger unless you're doing something like text dictation and even then its a PITA to do delete/amend. Car makers don't seem have got this memo either.
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And if you are prone to stuttering voice control is a major loss.
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Or have reasonably thick accent.
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My40XgYEvLM
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Eee-le-ven!
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Or speak a language other than English.
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Or if you have the wrong accent.
Voice Control has always been tuned, in spanish, for either Spain or Mexico.
I'm from Argentina and these things don't understand me. I have to speak in mexican for it to barely understand me.
I'm not going to do that.
Input validation (Score:2)
> The company is now rolling out a "Hey, Copilot!" wake word on Windows 11 machines, positioning voice as a "third input mechanism" to supplement the keyboard and mouse.
Early Christmas gift for "tech support" phone scammers.
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You do realize that almost all those games you cry about are NOT from Microsoft, and working just fine in Linux these days? And that most Linux companies are diversity friendly organizations with social contracts that are non-discriminatory and full of woke DEI stuff you're bound to loath, right? There's even open source projects started by LGBQ and even...*gasp*.. some Ts!!!
Quite frankly as much as I wish the world would run Linux, I almost hope loud mouth bigots like you stay with windows since yo
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I think Temple OS would better suit you. Linux development is full of DEI and all that stuff you hate.
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Sorry responded to the wrong comment
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These are honest questions for you, one of the most fragile people I've seen on here:
How do you deal with other people in the real world that think differently than you?
Do you break down crying at the slightest perceived insult?
When you discover that products in the store are not targeted at you, do you fly into a rage and start smashing things?
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I think Temple OS would better suit you. Linux development is full of DEI and all that stuff you hate.
right comment this time
Prompt: (Score:2)
In the voice of Chris Walken "your're doing it all wrong Microsoft"
Why would someone want to go from a keyboard/mouse, which has stood the test of time and is efficient, to a less granular, imprecise, method of control? Maybe if we're in a Star Trek turbolift, but sitting at a workstation? Voice recognition and output to text has been around for what, 25 years at least? Nobody uses it. But these days, Microsoft doesn't seem to care what's best for the consumer or whether they want it, but shove whatever t
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Clearly everyone wants to sit in an office where a dozen people are all talking to their PCs to write Word documents. It just makes sense.
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What if you all had private spaces instead of open office plans?
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Management: "Where's the fun in that?!!"
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True. Everyone could have their own soundproof pod to work in.
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People using PCs to be "productive" has long been the minority of PC users. Microsoft knows this and is always trying to optimize for the " [1]what's a computer? [youtu.be]" crowd. But they don't realize that the *demand* for PCs comes from people using them to do actual work, and for that we need a mouse and a keyboard.
[1] https://youtu.be/3S5BLs51yDQ?si=fIWZOLG3QkgdMgeA&t=52
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Would Seven of Nine like a word?
"Your" PC (Score:3)
Your PC controlled by someone else's AI? That doesn't make any sense! Oxymoron.
In an open office? LOL (Score:2)
And while we are all back to the office, now everyone around us is chattering all day long. No thanks.
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That's one thing these tech companies don't seem to get. Every company I've worked for either has some form of cubes, or open desks for at least a good portion of the building. It's hard enough to have a phone call in those places without bothering everyone around you, but if they want the whole computer to be voice activated, that is just dumb. Everyone is going to be talking over each other, your neighbor's computer will pick up your voice just like we deal with today with the whole Alexa/Siri mess if
Let the pranks begin! (Score:2)
Sounds like the time some of my coworkers attached a mouse dongle to the docking station of the "victim". Then they'd randomly move the remote mouse from time to time, but not enough to make it obvious. Hopefully the wake phrase is trained to the computer owner only.
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[1]Obligatory XKCD. [xkcd.com]
[1] https://xkcd.com/1807/
bahahahahahah (Score:2)
lol fuckin good one ms. Nope.
Again? (Score:3)
Microsoft has been chasing that dream since the 1990s. “Microsoft Wants You To Talk To Your PC” could describe half a dozen eras of Redmond optimism.
In the mid-90s, Windows 95 had an add-on called Microsoft Speech API, mostly used by dictation software and accessibility tools. Around 2002, they tried again with Microsoft Speech Recognition built into Office XP and Windows Vista. Then came Cortana in Windows 10, a digital assistant meant to rival Siri and Alexa, which never really found an audience.
Now with Copilot (and before that, Clippy, that proto-AI paperclip everyone loves to hate), Microsoft is again betting on natural conversation as the interface of the future, but this time powered by large language models rather than rigid command trees. The difference is that now the machine actually understands context and intent rather than matching fixed phrases.
So yes, they’ve been saying “talk to your computer” for 30 years, but this time, the computer finally talks back with some wit and coherence.
Depending on who you ask.:-)
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The words were probably written by CoPilot. That definitely sounds like the kind of thing an LLM would say.
Editing a photo? (Score:2)
Editing a photo solely with voice only will become annoying very quickly, it has to be done in coordination with touch .. then it would be good.
Down we go (Score:2)
You talk to it about everything, it becomes part of The Borg.
Even in Star Trek (Score:2)
they are using a keyboard or at least touch display, when they are concentrating on a task....
Why? (Score:3)
No thank you!
Does ANYONE actually want this?
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Investors. They want to see that a company has an AI strategy.
Xbox, record that... (Score:2)
XBox One voice recognition was peak voice control, everything else has been useless garbage.
Hey Slackware: (Score:2)
Microsoft wants me to talk to you
Pat said I should not talk to strangers
Niche uses, sure. (Score:2)
For folks with motor function struggles that don't impact speech, probably great. For the severely vision impaired it can be an extension to tools they use today. The rest is going to be AI learning a lot of new four letter words and colorful phrases when it continues to get everything wrong.
Bad ideas that just won't go away (Score:3)
I am looking forward to a day when MS no longer attempts to resurrect Clippy.
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Clippy was just mildly annoying but I'd hate having to talk to my computer.
Re: Bad ideas that just won't go away (Score:2)
Are the computing interfaces on Star Trek a bad idea, or just convenient?
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Look, I have one job on this lousy ship. It's stupid, but I'm going to do it, okay?
Re: Bad ideas that just won't go away (Score:4, Insightful)
The computing interfaces on Star Trek were designed to work well for the audience watching them, which meant they had to make clear the information they needed to know (which wasn't necessary the information the putative users needed to know) and "usability" was a nonfactor. They worked well for that, but trying to use them as an actual user interface is indeed a bad idea.
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Also the bridge of the enterprise had the crew members far more spaced out than in the average office.
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The question is -- ideas that are bad for *who*? This may be a very bad idea for you and me, but it is a very good idea for Microsoft, especially as, like their online services, they will make money off of us and it will be very inconvenient for us to opt out.
In civics-lesson style capitalism, which I'm all in favor of, companies compete to provide things for us that we want and we, armed with information about their products, services and prices, either choose to give them our business or to give our busi
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Yes. Microsoft basically want to turn PCs into dumb terminals while they loot all your data and hold it hostage on their servers.
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Anybody who is pushing AI services, particularly *free* AI services, is hoping to mine your data, use it to target you for marketing, and use the service to steer you towards opaque business relationships they will profit from and you will find it complicated and inconvenient to extricate yourself from.