With the advent of AI PCs, artificial intelligence is coming to the masses – and frankly, I expect nothing but quality trouble. Manufacturers, and especially Microsoft, have created a frenzy of hype around AI, the vast majority of civilians don’t know what it’s talking about – and only people who play with AI know that despite moments of sheer brilliance, many of its outputs are completely off. Copilot will open the floodgates publicly and widely to a product that desperately needs to mature.
Like it or not, AI will be a topic that will be discussed for the rest of the year – and quite possibly beyond, in all sorts of forms. And a lot of that stuff won’t be pleasant because—let’s face it—the thing isn’t yet ripe for reliable mass deployment. By the way, I wrote about this recently: ChatGPT is not suitable for very specific questions, it makes things up, it is not able to separate the circle of what it knows fairly reliably from what is purely hallucinatory – and with Copilot it will flow into the mainstream, among civilians who have avoided it so far .
Although Linus thinks that the current launch of Windows for ARM is awesome, I think it’s completely normal crap – it’s rushed mainly on the software side, and I’m convinced that a little slowing down would greatly benefit things. If the launch of the new platform was, so to speak, “on the run and feet first”, it is absolutely nothing against the pace with which Microsoft is pushing Copilot and the whole AI wave – and there I have much, much more serious concerns, because this thing will eventually hit everyone – and the nations, massaged by advertising, will experience a much more brutal sobering up.
This is because the upcoming wave of hardware will hit a relatively small part of the population, while software updates with AI will hit everyone. Microsoft seems to have a lot of faith in artificial intelligence, otherwise it wouldn’t have made the fundamental change of pushing us a special Copilot key: This doesn’t happen too often even with them, they once gave us the Windows key and the Menu key (1994) – and now the Menu key is replaced by Copilot , after thirty (!!!) years. Microsoft doing this means it wants us to use AI. It literally rips us into the same line where the spacebar and shifty are, so it REALLY wants us to use it.
From their point of view, it makes sense: Because Copilot will be limited, we have a paid version of Copilot Plus, which will greatly strengthen the power of Microsoft accounts and the payment cards linked to them, when the ice finally moves to such a situation that outside of the “prepaid services” Office can also introduce a Windows “prepaid service”. Don’t have the slightest doubt that they’ve been dreaming about this for years and looking for a way to push it on us, because not everyone is Apple to just launch it and say hi. There are many more Windows users, they are canned and, like the rope at the watering hole, you just can’t bully them, scare them and drive them away.
Source: pctuning.cz
