Microsoft to launch new AI-Powered Copilot+ PCs that track & search all your activities
Microsoft has just unveiled its new AI-powered 'Copilot+' PCs, set to launch this summer. These devices, equipped with next-generation AI features, will have new sets of hardware requirements to access all the AI features, such as including an NPU with at least 45 TOPS of power, with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series chips being the first to meet this requirement.
These Copilot+ PCs will offer a new AI feature called "Recall," which essentially allows users to search for past activities across any app using natural language queries, as well as including a Timeline interface that enables users to scroll through snapshots captured by Windows based on their search criteria. This feature strongly resembles what we've already seen in other third-party apps like Rewind AI. There will also be big improvements to the Live Captions feature, which will be able to translate over 40 languages into English from live or pre-recorded audio and video directly on the device, eliminating the need for cloud connectivity and increasing speed in the process. The devices will also provide enhanced generative AI capabilities for faster image and text generation without relying on cloud services.
The Copilot+ PCs, including the latest Microsoft's Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models, are scheduled to launch in June, with other major OEMs also anticipated to release Copilot+ PCs next month. However, the elephant in the room remains: How will this impact privacy now that these new devices will actively log almost every activity users perform? Regarding this, the company assures that the Recall feature is built and stored entirely on the user’s device. Snapshots or any data will stay local, and users can delete snapshots, adjust time ranges, or prevent apps and websites from being saved.
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- Accelerating innovation: A new era of AI at work beginsWindows Experience Blog • Official source
- Microsoft Surface and Windows 11 AI event live blogWindows Central
- Microsoft unveils new ‘Copilot + PC’ initiative in new bid to revitalize Windows with AIGeekWire
- Microsoft unveils Copilot+, AI PCs with Recall feature, Surface Laptop , Surface ProAxios
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"It's stored locally." Yeah, well, that's not gonna discourage hackers, now is it?
Great! This exactly what I've always been dreaming of! I'm actually so bored of stupid computers that do exactly what I tell them, and having a computer hallucinating most of the time is what is missing me the most. Also, I'm certain that it will be very easy to remove some very embarrassing information when the whole AI model will be filling with your entire life. And since Microsoft is so great with security, I won't hesitate to give all my dirty secrets without bothering a single moment that it will be used to offer me a nice wall of shame as a next ransomware gift. It could also be neat to providing me extremely precise advertising about my recent intimate problems or my abilities to spend dozen of hours browsing stupid content on the web. It's too bad that theses very promising Snapdragon X will have mainline support in Linux kernel by the end of the year, a 20+ hours of battery laptop would be the only reason to not live the AI dream and continue to live with a stupid computer that is always obeying me and not draining the battery in my back.
Microsoft will achieve what they've been dreaming of for years just by adding the magic words "AI", now Windows won't be a spyware it would be "The seamless OS integrated with the use of AI, privacy oriented and transparent telemetry". You don't have to write, code, search, edit, because AI will do it for you... And M$ wants to make this "integrated AI co-pilot thing" the de facto standard for Windows 12.
Some people hate AI, I'm not that extreme, but I think AI should be used containerized in a web app or locally with your own hardware, not with access to your entire system and connected to an external server.
For me, Windows 10 is still a good option, less bloat, more optimal, and it's not a fancy desktop built on top of another like Windows 11 is built on top of many Windows 10/7 apps. And now you can remove some Microsoft applications like Edge, OneDrive, Copilot with an ISO of the EU region (same with Windows 11).
I don't think I could bring myself to run Windows ever again, and it just keeps getting worse. I stand with the ranks of those who want more privacy with technology, not less! Windows 10 still shows significantly more users than Windows 11. I don't know what else to say. I question if privacy minded individuals will eventually have no choice but to buy 3rd party, custom machines without these "AI chips" or baked in spyware.
I really really despise Windows increasing so with every MFBS "Update" that I know darn well I turned off. I want to get away from M$haft and be 100% on Linux but, I am still awaiting some of the programs I MUST have for what I do, to eventually function. Doubtful that I could utilize VMs (maybe?) to handle these programs.