Today we take the next step to unify these capabilities into a single experience we call Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion. Copilot will uniquely incorporate the context and intelligence of the web, your work data and what you are doing in the moment on your PC to provide better assistance – with your privacy and security at the forefront. It will be a simple and seamless experience, available in Windows 11, Microsoft 365, and in our web browser with Edge and Bing. It will work as an app or reveal itself when you need it with a right click. We will continue to add capabilities and connections to Copilot across to our most-used applications over time in service of our vision to have one experience that works across your whole life.
Copilot will begin to roll out in its early form as part of our free update to Windows 11, starting Sept. 26 — and across Bing, Edge, and Microsoft 365 Copilot this fall. We’re also announcing some exciting new experiences and devices to help you be more productive, spark your creativity, and to meet the everyday needs of people and businesses.
Microsoft blogs even sound like corpo bullshit.
Cortana, not the Microsoft assistant, was an actual AI. So Microsoft, in it’s infinite wisdom, ditched the name that actually made sense and went with… copilot. 😬
It makes sense they ditched the name honestly, Cortana has a garbage reputation and they’re chasing trends with the copilot name.
As controversial as it is, this might be my favourite AI assistant name; it’s a fun phrasing that explains it’s intended use well.
I still won’t use it of course, but that’s just because I don’t care.
Upgrading Cortana would have been a much better move, imo. I could see Apple not wanting to make Siri AI, as Siri is and has been a household name. Cortana, on the other hand, was used by basically no one.
It doesn’t tickle fancy to corporate suits
Soon actual copilots will have to either be replaced with AI or rename their position to not be associated with that garbage.
Vice pilot
Unlike ChatGPT or Bard, GitHub Copilot is actually useful for software engineering, so personally I think it was a good move to utilize that brand.
So it’s finally happening. I’m honestly a bit pessimistic on the whole AI integrated into the system thing, I hope there’s an easy option to turn it off or dismiss it entirely. I can see myself using this to ask it where the hell the setting I’m looking for is, but that’s about it.
I also bet this will be way more useful than microsoft’s unhinged forums for tech support. It can’t get worse with “have you tried running nfc /scannow” as a response to every unrelated problem.
Omg, I saw an answer on there the other day from 2018 talking about “software conflicts”. They don’t even know what they’re talking about most of the time.
I am so glad my PC does not support windows 11.
We want clippy!
Actually I don’t care tho cuz everything I need is comfortably on my Linux install.
I only clicked on this thread to see how far I’d have to scroll before some wee fanny said “aCkSHuRLy I uSE LInUx”
First comment lol
before some wee fanny said “aCkSHuRLy I uSE LInUx”
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Lol, gets me everytime. A good chuckle for the day. Thank you!
I’d just like to interject for a moment. You had assumed that littering your comment with technical jargon pertaining to your favourite operating system, (which, for reasons unbeknown to most of us, contains references to antelopes of the genus Connochaetes), and that it would impress us so much that we’d immediately switch from Windows and/or cause us to start frothing uncontrollably at the gash, yet the simple fact is that all you have done is convince the majority of Windows users that you are, as previously mentioned, a wee fanny
he doesn’t know lol
For a website that hates using Windows, they sure fucking talking it a lot.
Operating systems is an interesting topic to talk about for us cool nerds, ur just not part of the club cuz ur lame
I wonder if we should all subscribe to the Linux communities and every time someone posts a question about how to get something to run, we could reply “AkShaurLy I dOnT hAvE thIs ProBlEm cOs iM runnINg wEnDOWS wITH thE HaNd pAinTed pErIWinkLeS”
So clippy who now will send all your personal data to Microsoft for their sales team.
Switch to Linux, fuck everything about Microsoft
Clippy Reborn!
Layers in paint is huge tbf
I get good sounding garbage out of “AI” four times out of five. This sounds like paying $30 to crash my productivity. But at least running the backend uses a gross amount of power and water.
It just struck me that artificial intelligence is an accurate term after all, just in a different sense than the classic idea of a non-living consciousness.
It’s “artificial intelligence” in that it’s a substitute for real intelligence.
In science fiction there’s sometimes a distinction between virtual intelligence (something that simulates intelligence but isn’t really intelligent) and actual artificial intelligence (something really intelligent but created through science and engineering instead of natural biological evolution).
Large language models would almost certainly be VI by those definitions, not AI.
Right, but that wasn’t really my point. I mean “artificial intelligence,” as the term has come to be used in this current world in which, for example, film and television producers want to have large language models write scripts, is a substitute for intelligence, in that people who don’t possess actual intelligence want to use it to create strings of words with which to impress other people who don’t possess actual intelligence. It’s pretend intelligence by and for people who don’t possess the real kind.
Yes, never sure why people had such an issue with the term.
Example, artificial hair is a broad term, and can span from looking like a straw broom to indistinguishable from real hair, and everything in between.
