They sure fucked up SwiftKey
Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession
DosDude@retrolemmy.com 8 months ago
Now do paint. Or even more useless: calculator.
No need to “fix” notepad. It does what it has to. If you’re a power user, you can download something else. But I’ll bet it won’t have Ai in it.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They already did both of those. Paint has layers now and calculator got worse because they decided to split everything up into different modes which is a pain when you want to do hex conversions but also do non-truncated division, especially because it resets the history and storage when switching modes.
It seems to me like these apps are being redesigned by people who don’t use the features, or maybe with the primary design goal of reducing support calls from people who have no clue what they are doing.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sheeple@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why the fuck would I ever want AI in my calculators? Even Algebra never required AI in the past
Hyperlon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because AI is obviously better at solving math than the code programmers wrote. Duh.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 months ago
In all seriousness, if you show Bing Chat an equation, it will go through the steps and solve it clearly, it’s actually really helpful. I really don’t understand all this hate for AI just because it’s AI. New technology is cool and useful, and I’d understand hating it because it’s made by Microsoft, I try to use free software including free AI, but AI in itself is not bad or useless.
Hyperlon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah I don’t hate AI but an AI cannot do math faster than the hardware designed to do it. It’s like saying an emulator is faster than the bare hardware. The AI would have to find a revolutionary new way of solving the equation to make it faster than the hardware.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You don’t want reasonably written, believable, factually dubious answers from your calculator?
errorlab@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Because now it can be done on the cloud with AI for triple the time, also subscriptions.
harry_balzac@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It bills you each time you make a spelling error.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I wouldn’t mind a bit of wolfram alpha