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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
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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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[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I actually like the ability for a local AI to help with this in theory. I don't think it's an excuse for unintuitive UIs though.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I appreciate the sentiment - in fact it's been fun watching AI being integrated into home assistant by end users and being given full control, lots of incredibly interesting times.

But not all AI is the same. Somehow I expect that Microsoft's implementation will make it ridiculously easy to opt-in to Microsoft services and relaxed privacy settings, but will leave opting out as an exercise left to the user.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Wow, a take that isn't just "AI bad?" Wild.

Yeah I thought it was weird that it couldn't do this in windows in the first place when you had to click a button to allow the AI to change your computer from light to dark mode or something. It was right 99% of the time in my brief testing, and just include an undo button in case it isn't.

All of that said, I'm glad to be on Linux where there isn't any AI built into my OS, but I'm also not the target audience for needing an AI to change my settings for me.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I agree but with Microsoft you know an air-gapped 'AI agent' is never going to happen.