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Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it (www.theverge.com)
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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.”

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 23 hours 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.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

This has been a Microsoft wishlist feature since the 90s. I remember being a kid and reading articles in my dad's copies of PC Magazine that Bill Gates wanted a computer without a keyboard that you could just talk to and tell it what to do.

So yeah, C-level intelligence is exactly right.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

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.