487
Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12
(www.notebookcheck.net)
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
487 points (83.9% liked)
Technology
59675 readers
3270 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I like to put down M$ when I can, but I don't think replacing the start button is the exact plan here. I think he's just using it as a comparison.
I like how the copilot button will allow Microsoft to run what it thinks you want to run.
That would be anticompetitive, but Microsoft learned from the last time. (And what it learned was "nothing's going to happen to you so carry on")
This isn't going to work whatsoever with people who don't know how to express what they want to do.
Tons of people have just been taught a fixed workflow involving a sequence of buttons with known labels and icons and locations. Lots of people already can't find programs in the start menu even if they know the name (because they don't know how search works and often even will think it's not the same program / will think it won't have the same data because the icon was found in a different place).
How are they suddenly going to talk to an AI about things that the AI don't even have information about? The AI won't know all the nicknames people have, it won't knew how people describe the icons, can't handle all misspellings (they don't even understand phonetics), it won't under people's description of the UX parts, and when programs have 20x start options where people usually follow a guide to pick the right one then the AI won't be able to reliably recognize which one the user intends to open.
Every single company would literally need a team of AI training experts and capture EVERYTHING the employees does with the computers and says about them for a few months to capture all the context it needs.