It’s reason not to buy a new PC for me. Or ever upgrade to Windows 11. I’ll wait for 12 or just go Linux.
i never even liked w10 and 11 seemed just horrible. when i heard about the copilot thing last summer, i decided to start getting familiar with linux so that when 10 dies, i won’t have to use 11 and the AI abomination it evolves into. i soon ditched 10 completely after seeing how much nicer mint is. for my school projects i still need windows on my laptop but after that’s over, laptop gets mint as well.
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While it sounds pretty useless, I do feel vastly more comfortable with the idea of making use of an AI assistant if it’s locally processed. I do try not to just dismiss everything new like a Luddite. That said, so far, despite all the press and attention I haven’t personally found a single use for any of the recent crop of products.and services in the past 3-4 years branded as AI. If however new use cases popup and it becomes a part of our lives in ways we didn’t expect but then can’t live without, I’d very much appreciate it running on my own metal.
I don’t think Windows’ Copilot is locally processed? Could very well be wrong but I thought it was GPT-4 which is absurd to run locally.
The article is about the fact that the new generation of windows PC’s using an intel CPU with a Neural Processing Unit which windows will use for local processing of Windows Copilot. The author thinks this is not reason enough to buy a computer with this capability.
You’re totally right. I started reading the article, got distracted, and thought I’d already read it. I agree with you then.
I still don’t trust Microsoft to not phone all your inputs home though.
Usually there is a massive VRAM requirement. local neural networking silicon doesn’t solve that, but using a more lightweight and limited model could.
Basically don’t expect even gpt3, but SOMETHING could be run locally.
Ugh so even less reason to think it’s worth anything.
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Cortana worked damn well for a while. Feature rich, able to understand me better than googles assistant. And despite this they found no way to earn money on it and just gave up. Not by just disconnecting her, but by slowly stripping her of every useful feature.
I don’t trust copilot to stay around. They gonna try a few half hearted attempts at capitalize it, then just give up. Like they did with Cortana.
It’s the same story with Google Assistant. Started out as Google Now and was genuinely useful, but there apparently wasn’t any real way of monetising it so we got Google Assistant/Discover and now Gemini.
Windows 12 will somehow be even shittier
Can’t believe we’re so close to windows being entirely unusable
Windows 13 = starting a PC that renders whatever you do in their cloud.
Nah, windows won’t stick to the same numbering system long enough to hit 13
Especially because 13 can be seen as a unlucky number so they reverted to naming after the release year and then it will be called windows 29