Microsoft wants laptop users to familiarize themselves with its artificial intelligence chatbot, which remembers everything you do on your computer and figures out what you want to do next. .
The software giant on Monday battled increasing competition from Big Tech rivals touting generative AI technology that can create documents, create images and act as lifelike personal assistants at work and home. Introduced a new class of personal computers with built-in AI.
The announcement ahead of Microsoft's annual Build developer conference focuses on integrating the company's AI assistant, called Copilot, into the Windows operating system for PCs that has already captured the attention of millions of consumers. I was guessing.
New features include Windows Recall, which provides an AI assistant with what Microsoft describes as a “photographic memory” of a person's virtual activities. Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy by giving you options to filter what you don't want tracked and by keeping the tracking on your device.
CEO Satya Nadella said this is a step toward machines that “instantly see us, hear us, and infer our intentions and our surroundings.”
“We're entering a new era where computers can not only understand us, but actually predict what we want and what our intentions are,” Nadella said at an event at his headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Stated.
The conference, which begins Tuesday in Seattle, follows big AI announcements last week from rival Google and OpenAI, a close business partner of Microsoft that built the AI large-scale language model on which Microsoft's Copilot is based.
Google has introduced an improved search engine that regularly displays AI-generated summaries on website links at the top of the results page. At the same time, he also showed off his still-in-development AI assistant Astra, which can “see” and talk to what's reflected through a smartphone's camera lens.
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, announced a new version of its chatbot last week, demonstrating an AI voice assistant with human characteristics that can tell a joke about what someone is wearing and try to assess a person's emotions. . On Monday, OpenAI removed the audio from its collection because her voice sounded so similar to Scarlett Johansson, who played the AI character in the sci-fi movie “Her.”
OpenAI also rolled out a new desktop version of ChatGPT designed for Apple's Mac computers.
Next up is Apple's own annual developer conference in June. Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled at the company's annual shareholder meeting in February that the company is investing heavily in generative AI.
Some of Microsoft's announcements on Monday seemed designed to blunt everything Apple has in store. The new AI-enhanced Windows PCs will begin rolling out on June 18 on computers from Microsoft partners Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, as well as Microsoft's Surface product line. However, it is reserved for the premium model starting at $999.
While Copilot is based on OpenAI's large-scale language model, Microsoft says the new AI PC will be a self-developed “small-scale language model” designed to be more efficient and easier to run on consumers' personal devices. It also depends largely on the language model.
Gartner analyst Jason Wong said many of the computers equipped with Qualcomm's chips will end up in the hands of employees at large companies looking to refresh their inventory.
AI applications from graphics production to language translation “can now be run locally without having to go back to the cloud for processing,” Wong said. “This allows you to do more without having to be connected to the internet and significantly improves performance.”
