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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"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."

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy f***, God forbid making settings menus that actually get you to where you want to go, definitely wouldn't want to do that, much better to AI.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No shit… If you want to solve the common frustration of not being able to find settings, maybe don’t put half of them in a settings app and the other half in the control panel, and then rename and move all of them every year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Don't forget, outright removing a UI for modifying settings forcing users to use registry mods, potentially a PS command, or a third party tool to force the behavior you lost from a simple setting removal.