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Microsoft Debuts New Copilot+ Windows PCs Designed Around AI
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Is there something you are missing from your current computing experience requiring AI? Most of the stuff being done is what I call gimmickry and some of what is classified as AI has been around for many years, but never called AI.
MS definitely spent a good portion of their event comparing these new devices to the M3 MBA
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"Delete 2.0 is only available with the A.I. spatial iCloud Pro Max subscription starting at only $69/month. We think you'll love it!"
"Else, enjoy our all-new deleted photo recall experience where you can relive lost memories with photos you only thought you deleted... and/or relive other peoples memories by recovering their deleted photos on refurb/used devices you've purchased. It's like a magical library of memories you never had. Only Apple can create such amazing experiences..."
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Recently installed windows 11 and amazingly some of the installers are still using Windows 3.1 dialog boxes it’s like they’re not even trying to make it modern, they just throw a new face plate on the operating system.
My #barf is for Joanna Stern (or any tech journalist) hyping a company or product right after they get an interview with someone from the company.
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Even though you can enable the CoPilot preview for free in win 11, MS is really trying to convince you of a $20 a month subscription for CoPilot Pro. That will be quite different from whats bundled into Apple's upcoming OS's at WWDCC 2024.
Exactly right. Apple being Apple, it should be at least $40-$50 more per month. A.I. ain't no Apple handkerchief!
Nothing is truly local when you're connected to the internet. The ways to access that history are too numerous to list. I honestly can't think of something more valuable. Its not just the point in time data, but the chain of actions that is extremely valuable. Now imagine an AI that uses all that recall data and tells you the best way to target the most vunerable individuals based on analysis.
It will be fun for a change watching Microsoft catching the brunt of the flak in this forum rather than Apple.
FWIW, Intel has announced that the "Copilot+" features will also be available on their Lunar Lake CPU, which is scheduled for Q3:
Intel’s Lunar Lake Processors Arriving Q3 2024
Lunar Lake processors will extend unmatched global AI PC scale and receive free updates to Copilot+ when available.
www.intel.com
I haven't found a reaction by AMD, but they aren't far behind either.
But only if it can be turned off easily. I don't want everything I do recorded and summarized. To me this looks like the least useful and most invasive AI feature, but I'll reserve judgment until I've tried it.
Publicly, yes. What they actually do with that data is another story entirely.
A 15” HDR2 touch screen Surface laptop with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 22 hours battery life is $1299. A 13” OLED iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 10 hours battery life is $1,648. I think Apple may be seriously challenged here. Especially iPad.
1) AI is not a gimmick, it is real and here to stay. We are at the beginning of a transformative era far more impactful than what the internet did. Progress will not be linear but parabolic so buckle up.
2) The war for AI is just starting, he who controls the best AI integration will control the universe It remains to be seen whether it's apple, google, microsoft, or someone entirely new that will have the best integration and win over the user base. There is no "steve jobs" left that have the vision/passion to integrate such complexity into a seamless user experience, so it will be interesting to see.
3) We already know the first iteration of hardware like rabbit and the stupid projector thing are complete failures, but chatgpt is moving at light speed on the software side yet the company openai lacks any os or hardware experience/ownership like apple/android.
This is the new frontier, for those of you still think AI is a gimmick and dont want anything to do with it, you are the blackberry users in an iPhone world back in the early 2010s. Like it or not, AI will become part of your daily lives soon enough. Question is which tech giant will win, or will they all lose and a new player emerges.
2) The war for AI is just starting, he who controls the best AI integration will control the universe
It remains to be seen whether it's apple, google, microsoft, or someone entirely new that will have the best integration and win over the user base. There is no "steve jobs" left that have the vision/passion to integrate such complexity into a seamless user experience, so it will be interesting to see. 3) We already know the first iteration of hardware like rabbit and the stupid projector thing are complete failures, but chatgpt is moving at light speed on the software side yet the company openai lacks any os or hardware experience/ownership like apple/android.
This is the new frontier, for those of you still think AI is a gimmick and dont want anything to do with it, you are the blackberry users in an iPhone world back in the early 2010s. Like it or not, AI will become part of your daily lives soon enough. Question is which tech giant will win, or will they all lose and a new player emerges.
More “AI” bloat. The typical consumer doesn’t understand what all of this is anyways.
You clearly weren't around for the internet boom of the mid-to-late 90s.
I am sure that it is not.
The nature of corporations today is to greenwash. Governments do it too, but corporations are especially good at the talk if not the walk.
As the fully burdened cost of energy is made more plain to the average person there is going to be a lot of turmoil among the masses.
We see today how Americans whine about gasoline prices, though on an inflation-adjusted basis current gasoline prices are not significant different than during past times.
The unwillingness to take climate change seriously is one of the (and perhaps the biggest) blindspots of our global society today.
Well, the internet did actually change the entire world and way of life for most people.