Source: Windows Copilot: When is Copilot available? Here’s what to know (usatoday.com)
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Now, Microsoft has said that Windows 11 will get a bunch of new features powered by generative AI starting in June. The principal part is called Windows Copilot, a bunch of text-driven assistive capacities that make utilizing your PC simpler and more natural.
You have undoubtedly noticed that AI-related news is prevalent everywhere and growing in influence. OpenAI just released an iOS version of ChatGPT last week—an Android version is coming soon—that allows you to speak your request for information into the interactive chatbot user interface and runs directly on your iPhone.
The organization additionally declared the capacity to coordinate Bing Talk modules into Windows, implying that a considerable lot of the great abilities Microsoft brought to its Bing web crawler will be accessible straightforwardly in Windows.
When will Windows Copilot be available?
In June, beta testers of Windows Copilot will be able to download a preview version. It will be accessible to the overall population not long from now.
What is Windows Copilot’s operation?
You can enter requests in a sidebar window that opens up when you click on a new icon in the Windows taskbar. These can take the form of common queries asked on the internet, such as “Who won the Giants game yesterday?” or “What components are in tiramisu?”
You can also ask Windows Copilot to change Windows settings, such as turning on dark mode and starting a focus session. You can also use your PC to do things like drag and drop files from Windows Explorer into the Copilot window, and it will immediately summarize the results.
Even though these are only a few basic ideas, they give a hint of the transformative capabilities and novel ways to interact with your computer that generative AI holds that have so excited many people and the tech industry as a whole.
Does AI work offline?
Windows Copilot features and mobile ChatGPT apps demonstrate the rapid transfer of generative AI applications from the cloud to our devices. These applications require an internet connection to function because the majority of the work is still performed in the cloud.
Now, we are beginning to hear about the possibility of converting some of these features into capabilities that can make use of our devices’ computing capabilities and run locally on them.
Most people probably won’t care about that at all. After all, all you care about is getting something done, regardless of where it takes place or how it works.
However, it turns out that the location of the “work” has significant ramifications that are worth understanding. Pricing, availability, security, and privacy of these applications and services are all directly influenced by the distribution of computing resources across various locations.
Even though these generative AI applications can be cool and exciting, they are quickly becoming known for being power hogs because they require a lot of very powerful computer servers to run.
The demand for computers hosted at cloud computing providers to run these features and the energy to power them rises with the number of people who want to use them and the number of services that are made available.
However, given that none of those services are provided at no cost, businesses and consumers are likely to incur some costs at some point. By moving a portion of the figuring work onto our gadgets, notwithstanding, they can lessen these cloud-based processing requests and, in this manner, their expenses. That means that, in the end, they won’t (hopefully) pass on as many or any costs to users of generative AI applications and services.
These last capabilities are particularly intriguing, particularly when the intelligence that lies beneath Copilot begins to emerge. Imagine, for instance, a time when you could ask your computer to find information on a specific subject, have it concisely summarize what it finds into a single paragraph, and then paste that into a new or existing document.
Or, what about asking your Windows PC to schedule a time for a meeting with coworkers or a dinner with friends and sending out invitations automatically?
