“We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents,” Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. “An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks.”
This is the TYPICAL AI use case :
- have situation that’s not perfect, but works fine and is understandable (old control panel and some hidden settings)
- improve on the old control panel, create subsections that makes sense, make it searchable, everyone is happy
- someone decides that “control panel” and “old looking UI” have to go, create a cluster-a-doodle-fuck of a garbage mess labeled “Settings”, put only half the old settings in there, and half the time conflicts with other well-established ways to do things
- keep pushing the new thing despite it being so horrendous a kitten litter dies every time it is used
- pretend “there is a problem with settings, but we can solve it with AI”
- ???
- nothing, whatever, definitely not profit
It seems that people keep forgetting we just, did stuff. Changing most system settings wasn’t an incomprehensible chore reserved to the most elite of people. And changing the fringe ultra rare and hard to find setting only happened with half-decent competent people. No need to throw AI at that… unless you dismantle everything that works before, of course.
I swear, it’s not long ago that people were touting that we could finally have decent microtransactions in games thanks to blockchain, despite microtransactions being a very lucrative thing for decades before. And don’t get me started on people saying “but it’s the only way artists can get paid”.
As a collective, humanity is dumb.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Is Microsoft trying to kill itself?
UsoSaito@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Yes
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hopefully