Microsoft is Putting AI Actions Into the Windows File Explorer (theverge.com) 48
Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. From a report: These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files.
Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint. Similar AI actions will soon be tested with Office files, The Verge added.
Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint. Similar AI actions will soon be tested with Office files, The Verge added.
and how exactly does it summarise that doc (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:and how exactly does it summarise that doc (Score:4, Insightful)
by sending it off to a server someplace for 'analysis'?
You forgot the most important step for Microsoft. The analysis data is then sold to the highest bidder.
Why not fix the basics? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd like to search to work reasonably, be able to sort by date--including files within directories and get total size of directories for a start.
I'm not sure i need ai to look thru directories.
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I'd just like it not to become unresponsive for no apparent reason. I've been seeing this happen fairly regularly on multiple machines since Win 10. Extremely annoying.
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It's almost impossible to figure out a solution without knowing more about your system specs. Now, the Intel chips from 12th generation and newer have that big.little approach, with Performance Cores and Efficiency Cores. By nature, this causes many programs to not respond well when you hit an efficiency core.
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They should put a physical button on your pc's case that lets you toggle between the two modes. They could label it something simple, like "turbo"...
What's old is new again!
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I'd just like it not to become unresponsive for no apparent reason.
When I still used windows I found larges numbers of files in MyDocuments or Downloads caused this. Move most files elsewhere and don't auto set background virus scanning on them.
Windows will just keep fucking with you no matter what you do. I was spending more time undoing update damage than getting work done.
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Look... they spent BILLIONS developing "A.I." solutions, and come hell or high water they WILL find a problem to solve even if they have to make one!
=Smidge=
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they WILL find a problem to solve even if they have to make one!
They could use an AI for that... :-)
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There are multiple groups of people within Microsoft, it's not just one big mass of developers.
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There are multiple groups of people within Microsoft, it's not just one big mass of developers.
Yes, that is true. So what are all of these "multiple groups of people" doing? They certainly aren't trying to make **ANYTHING** better.
I can sort of understand them putting stupid AI shit in Microsoft Office. They need to keep coming up with new gimmicks so they can sell more copies of Office. But Windows is a guaranteed money maker. Every year more than 200 million computers are sold and most of them have Windows pre-installed. I don't know what the price is today but several years ago OEMs were
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I use this program multiple times daily on all my machines. https://www.voidtools.com/ [voidtools.com]
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And I open a command prompt and type "dir /s ..."
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I would love to use an alternate search tool on Windows, but the only place I am still using it is on work hardware where I'm not allowed to install software. As such, I have no alternative to hopes and prayers that Microsoft will improve Windows if I want things like search to make sense.
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Good lord, they've reinvented "find"! Only not as powerful.
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I think they cannot fix the basics. They have heaped technological debt on technological debt and probably fired anybody that could still navigate the maze...
It is rather striking how MS has ignored basic problems for years now and always brings new features (that nobody asked for) instead. Looks to me like they want to misdirect away from a massive problem ...
There is nothing AI can't do! (Score:2)
It's an all the time, every time companion! It'll replace your friends! It'll be better than family! It can drive your car! It can spy on you while you're sleeping! It's a breakfast cereal!
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It's What Plants Crave
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Really? It's got electrolytes? If it's green, I'm in!!
The Year of Linux (Score:1)
KDE Neon is what I settled on. It has a crazy amount of bugs, just like Fedora, but so does Windows these days. Have you tried using High Contrast mode in Windows 11? It's just impossible.
My only remaining issue is that I can't do Blazor development in VS Codium, so I'll have to keep a Windows 11 (ugh!) VM around for VS 2022.
Re: The Year of Linux (Score:2)
Every time I reboot Windows it acts like it forgot what brightness I want for the laptop panel. But then I go into display settings and the fucking slider is right where I left it. If I click on it carefully enough that it doesn't move, nothing happens. If I drag it even one pixel then it "wakes up" and the brightness is set to match the slider position.
As you say, lots of bugs in the alternatives, but that's not different from Windows. It's just a clown show. Windows 7 generally worked pretty well and had
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Windows can't fix broken drivers or crap hardware. That fart noise is inside your head, seems there is mostly hot air in there.
The problem is in Windows, since a) the hardware works fine when told what to do correctly by windows and b) this is a regression, this equipment didn't always do this.
Here comes Super Clippy (Score:2)
https://postimg.cc/v4k2p3Tx [postimg.cc]
Let's just skip ahead (Score:1)
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...and then the things you've disabled become re-enables without your consent with the next update when the post-update setup restores the defaults.
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You need to remove powershell to be safe.
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Please clap (Score:2)
They have AI. Please clap.
No Security Concerns Here (Score:3)
I'd rather trust the toothless hooker down the street from the office with my wallet.
This will be a nightmare for companies trying to compartmentalize information within their networks.
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Indeed. MS has to be classified as a malicious actor more and more.
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There's an app for that (Score:2)
Fortunately, there's plenty of 3rd party utilities you can use instead of File Explorer.
MS has invested so much in AI that it's gonna have to stuff it into everything to justify the investment to shareholders, even though customers are lukewarm at best, and often downright hostile (like me).
Looks like I will need a replacement then (Score:3)
Sad times when the OS maker has to be considered an enemy and attacker...
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Sad times indeed, but it's been true at least since they started shoving telemetry into the OS, and it's been double true since they started shoving it into their old OSes.
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Indeed. But things are getting _worse_.
What a Shit Show (Score:3)
They break the context menu with the tiny indecipherable icons replacing copy and paste and now they want to crowd the context menu with this fucking crap? What a shit show.