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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] 69 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Option 1: Admit your UI choices (made mostly to accommodate an all tablet PC future that never arrived) are terrible and redesign the Windows settings screens to display all new and old settings that still work, with search functions.

Option 2: Spend tens of billions training an AI to find those settings and change them.

Well done, Microsoft. I knew you'd make the right choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Tell me this Ai is in-box and not external like all the others.

If not, there's gonna be a shed load of upset boomers who killed their net and can't get it back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Even the little blurb right here says it’s on-device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I agree option 1 is the correct choice, though it does appear they are slowly going that direction… very slowly.

But they definitely didn’t spend millions, nevermind billions, on shoehorning this one extra feature into their existing AI models.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I agree option 1 is the correct choice, though it does appear they are slowly going that direction…

Really? Because every new Windows version is even worse than the one before it. There are now 3? 4? different places to change network settings, but only one of them actually works correctly, if you modify the wrong one it will act like it worked but will silently break all networking on the machine instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

They’ve moved away from touch centric controls, and are “slowly” moving things into the modern settings. I never claimed their shit was clean, just moving in what seems to be the right direction, for the most part.