‚All with your permission and built upon the security of Windows 11.‘
Microsoft has released a blog update detailing a raft of upcoming upgrades to Copilot, including the addition of voice activation, so you can merrily shout „Hey Copilot“ at your PC and receive a response from the MS AI tool, among other things. Cool. What’s slightly troubling, however, is its declaration that it’s „making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC.“
Oh fiddlesticks. Don’t make me go through all this again. The term ‚AI PC‘ has always been a struggle to define, ranging from Microsoft’s earlier assertion that an AI PC must have an NPU with at least 45 TOPS of processing power to meet the qualification (that rules out most AMD-chipped desktop machines, then) to whether it’s got a physical Copilot button on the keyboard.
The good news is, MS seems to think we’ll all have an AI PC soon, thanks to Copilot. Well, as long as you’re running the latest version of Windows 11, that is. If I were a cynical man, I’d say it was almost like the term had no viable definition in the first place and merely served as a marketing tool to boost new PC sales. But I’m not, so put that idea out of your head immediately. Let’s talk about those upgrades.
According to Microsoft, an AI PC should be capable of three things. Firstly, you should be able to interact with it naturally, in text or voice, and have it understand you.
That’d be solved by the newly announced Copilot Voice feature, which is supposed to lead to „deeper engagement“ with Microsoft’s AI tool. According to MS, you’ll soon be able to turn on the feature in the Settings menu of your Copilot app, then cheerily announce „Hey, Copilot“, before asking it questions—like why most people stopped announcing „Ok, Google“ or „Hey Siri“ to their phones many moons ago.
Copilot’s text search will also gain the ability to be integrated into the taskbar as an opt-in setting, right where that sometimes-less-than-helpful regular search segment goes.
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