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Sorry for being an idiot, but what is an agentic OS?

Agentic OS is a buzzword that’s meant to imply that the OS is (or has) an AI agent doing useful things for you in the background without you explicitly asking it to do those things (ie an agent working for you). For an agent to be useful, (they say) it has to know and learn everything it can about you, your life, your friends, activities, contacts, work, and so on.

The tradeoff is pretty extreme though. Everything you do on the PC is watched, analyzed, catalogued, and retained by MIcrosoft (and possibly whoever they choose to share the info with, which is likely every government that asks). The features that do this are generically called client-side scanning and Microsoft has a few specific variants you can read about called Copilot Recall, and Copilot Vision.

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Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
physical revulsion

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jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
big tech doesn’t have a monopoly on linear algebra or calculus.

you can run your own telemetry, analytics, and modeling pipelines with existing toolings and most modern PCs are plenty capable of doing a wide variety of useful things with said data.

these tools are very powerful. algorithmic feeds regularly hijack your dopamine response whether you’re aware of it or not. these organizations colonize your mind and your consent or acknowledgment is not a necessary factor. why should MS, Google, and Meta be the sole masters of these feedback loops?

the old privacy is dead. going into the future people should be pragmatic and actually do something about the current state of our society instead of being whiny do-nothing pissbabies complaining endlessly about things they barely comprehend. the answer to breaking our chains is understanding the very tools that oppress us all.

being as tech-illiterate as most people are is why we’re in the precarious position we’re in… one where these big tech empires have risen to institutional scales, rivaling nation-states themselves.

do you people not see what is at stake here?

you’re a boiling frog, all of you, all of us.

one day you will wake up a citizen of meta and purchase your rations with facebook scrip, and you won’t even know it’s happened.

the decisions we all collectively take now over the next 5-10 years determine whether free society survives or if we descend into a new dark age of neo-serfdom and techno-feudalism.

may god have mercy on us all.

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- Muaddib@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  We should kill all the big tech CEOs and investors
  
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judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Look at the positive side, you can cook sausages on your overheating laptop

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- Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You mean cooking breakfast on the smoldering corpse of your laptop.
  
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Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Basically, system wide Clippy that is somehow even more annoying.

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boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And in the non-Windows world - this could all be implemented on Linux in such a way that you, the end user choose if you want it at all, which models you want (including both local and online ones), and what gets what access. Plus all kinds of customizability. I’m sure someone is already working on this too.

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Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
As far as I can see MS is planning the agent not to stay in the background as you described but to be an active means to control the operating system and software functions, so that many tasks can be instructed in natural language.

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l_isqof@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They should call this version of the OS “Doors” then, as it just shows you what doors it wants, and closes it’s door in your face if you don’t stump up your precious data.

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