Do people actually want this?

Like, I know the megacorps that control our lives do (since it's a cheap way of adding value to their products), but what about actual users? I think many see it as a novelty and a toy rather than a productivity tool. Especially when public awareness of "hallucinations" and the plight faced by artists rises.

Kinda feels like the whole "voice controlled assistants" bubble that happened a while ago. Sure they are relatively commonplace nowadays, but nowhere near as universal as people thought they would be.

This is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard of. I'm not buying any keyboard or laptop that has this key. There's enough Linux-first vendors these days that it's easy to avoid (Framework, System76, Tuxedo, etc). It's time to be done with Lenovo and Dell.

This is Clippy v2.0 and I'm sure it will be just as helpful.

Oh "great", more crap between Ctrl and Alt.

[Grumpy grandpa] In my times, the space row only had five keys! And we did more than those youngsters do with eight, now nine keys!

That's funny, because getting an ad for Copilot inside my startmenu was actually what made me go back to Linux after 10 years.

This tracks.

So you can pressed accidentally activating the fucking AI and make the numbers go up so Microsoft can then go and say to investors look millions are using my AI. So annoying.

Really milking that fad before they inevitably push anything useful behind a monthly paywall.

Why? Win+C launches Copilot already, if you want to use it. It's simple enough currently, why change it? This will just make everything worse.

Can't wait to see this gone in the next 3 years.

I am getting flashbacks to the multimedia keyboards on yesteryear:

https://deskthority.net/wiki/Multimedia_keyboard

Thanks MS, but no thanks, I don't need it.

this kind of shit is what gives AI a bad rep

no one needs this

almost no one wants it

and they'll kill it in a couple of years like they did it with Cortana

how the fuck can they just decide this

Please don't.

I have nothing against the people that are working on AI and appreciate the work they do. However every time I see an article about a company using AI like this I just get the vibe that it's a bunch of middle aged men trying desperately to make things like the "future" they saw when they were a kid. I've seen amazing implementations of AI in a lot of different ways but I'm so sick of dumb ideas like this because some guy that used to watch Star Trek as a kid wants to feel like they live in the future while piggybacking on someone else's work. It's like the painted tunnel in cartoons where it looks like a real tunnel but in reality it's just a very convincing lie. And that's all that it is. Complexity does not mean sophistication when it comes to AI and never has and to treat it as such is just a forceful way to make your ideas come true without putting in the real effort.

Sorry, I had to get that out. Also I have nothing against Star Trek and I used to watch it as a kid because my parents watched it all the time.

Wonder if it will be CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + C

how could it possibly be that urgent that it needs a key dedicated to it

Can't help but think about how Facebook inc rebranded itself to Meta to chase/promote the metaverse fad.

Woo-hoo! Secondary hyper modifier key - can't wait!!!

Lol fuck off Microdong.

Rebranded Cortana?

Destined to fail.

Time to buy some more of those little Tux keyboard superkey stickers :)

Can they just make the copilot shortcut on my taskbar permanently fuck off? It appears erratically and I don't seem to be able to get rid of it when it's there.

Is copilot another windows app I'll need to uninstall? Thanks for the heads up!

I'm happy as a clam with my 1984 loud as fuck IBM Model M keyboard in Windows.

Think you need a Windows key? CTRL-ESC. I use CTRL-ESC even on modern keyboards.

Just realized my keyboard is 22 years old.