Holy mother of fuck, #Microsoft. Now I understand why everyone’s suddenly talking about Linux in my feed.
What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong?
Even if Copilot Recall AI were 100% safe, complete recall is not what your average person needs. People are drowning in data. If anything people need to forget more of the garbage they're constantly accumulating. Having complete recall is almost as bad as having none at all.
Ask someone who's always taking smartphone photos to show you their most cherished photo from the past year. Few will be able to do it because they spend all their time taking ever more photos instead of editing their existing catalog to prune out things that don't really matter.
#Microsoft könnte ein Betriebssystem und Anwendungen entwickeln, die weniger Ressourcen verbrauchen und hätte damit eine riesigen Wirkung im globalen Kampf gegen die Klimakatastrophe.
Der Konzern entscheidet sich aber für das Gegenteil.
‘Investors are eager for evidence that the hugely expensive technology will drive healthy returns and, while Microsoft has said its new #AI tools have helped drive sales, it has not disclosed #Copilot user numbers.’ 🙄 https://on.ft.com/4dIDO7P
Visual Studio 2022 17.10 is available. This release features a new, single GitHub Copilot extension. To enable these AI experiences, activate your GitHub Copilot subscription today by signing in to GitHub and starting a free trial.
"Damit es funktioniert, zeichnet Recall alles auf, was Benutzer auf ihrem PC tun, einschließlich Aktivitäten in Apps, Kommunikation in Live-Meetings und zu Recherchezwecken besuchte Websites. Trotz Verschlüsselung und lokaler Speicherung wirft die neue Funktion bei bestimmten Windows-Benutzern Datenschutzbedenken auf."
#IA#Microsoft#CoPilot
Je note juste le lien vers cet article pour une information précise : Même si l'IA de Microsoft - CoPilot - tourne localement sur votre ordinateur, elle communique quand même avec les serveurs de Microsoft pour s'assurer que la demande faite à l'IA est "safe".
Ce qui confirme bien qu'on peut se torcher avec les promesses de Microsoft sur le fait que l'IA sera totalement locale et qu'elle respectera notre vie privée. https://stratechery.com/2024/windows-returns/
"Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air"
The not-yet-for-sale Windows "Copilot Plus PCs" are beating M3 MacBook Air (slightly) in Microsoft's home field testing (battery life and benchmark performance)
When will these machines be available?
How will their costs compare to the M3 MacBook Air?
Will Apple release the M4 MBA by then? If so, will the CoPilot PCs still win?
"Clara Fritsch..: „Ein derart komplexes und umfassend zur Überwachung der Beschäftigten geeignetes System wie Microsoft 365 muss natürlich mit einer Betriebsvereinbarung geregelt werden. Das ist im Arbeitsverfassungsgesetz festgeschrieben.“"
"To make it work, Recall records everything users do on their PC, including activities in apps, communications in live meetings, and websites visited for research. Despite encryption and local storage, the new feature raises privacy concerns for certain Windows users."
Ars Technica: New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
I just finished a productive Copilot session on a complex programming task. I came up with much of the algorithms, and wrote a lot of the code, and had to guide it a lot throughout, but credit where due, Copilot did make small but meaningful contributions along the way.
Overall, not a pair programmer but someone useful to talk to when WFH alone on complex tasks.
Enough for Copilot to earn a ✋🏽. And I like how it responded to that. It has got that part down. 😉
🤖 NetBSD’s New Policy: No Place for AI-Created Code
— @linuxiac
“New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD’s licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.”
#NetBSD joins the ranks of software projects that ban #AI generated code.
How they are going to enforce such ban is an obvious question lingering in the air.
Does it include only cases like “hey #ChatGPT write a suite of unit tests for this class”? Or also cases where #Copilot simply autocompletes a for loop while I’m typing it?
In the latter case, how would a hypothetical reviewer enforce the ban? How would the for loop autocompleted by Copilot, or the boilerplate population of hashmap values, look any different than one I would write myself?
And if the issue is with any code that isn’t directly written by a human, then why stop at modern AI generation? Why not include LINTers and traditional IDE autocomplete features?
I have no doubt that the projects that are announcing these no-AI policies have good intentions, but it’s probably time for all of us to have an honest talk.
Code completion isn’t a clear cut binary feature. It’s a big spectrum that goes from the old exuberant ctags to ChatGPT writing whole classes.
And code completion shouldn’t be banned. If it makes a developer more productive, and if the developer understands the code that is being completed, then such bans are akin to a “drivers should only use cars with manual transmission because we feel that it’s more manly”. It’s a conservative and elitist act of shunning out new productive tools because we can’t understand them and regulate them properly.
And more people need to call out the bluff: in cases where the AI only completes a few lines of code, its basically impossible to tell if that snippet was written by a human or an AI assistant.
Ich bin gerade bei Microsoft Deutschland in Köln bei den Afterwork Prompts, einem Eventformat, das deutschlandweit stattfindet. Es sitzen hier Journalistïnnen von RTL und n-tv, freie, Deutschlandradio und mehr. Also ein Event für Journalisten.
Aktuell erklärt Alexandra Schroeder (Cloud Solution Architect bei Microsoft) wie Prompten funktioniert. #AI
Nächster Teil des Events bei Microsoft Deutschland: Uniper stellt vor, wie sie für alle Mitarbeiterïnnen den #Microsoft#Copilot eingeführt haben. Lernt man nebenbei noch was über die Gaswirtschaft. Es spricht Hans Petzold. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanspezold#KI#AI
La nouvelle version de l’app mobile GitHub embarque le service « Copilot Chat », mais ne propose toujours pas le minimum de fonctionnalités pour gérer une organisation de plus de 300 dépôts. 🙄
Et la version web mobile est une plaie à utiliser.
It's a bit of a conflicting situation because it happens at the same time of my lab😁, but this session from @Jthake and @barnambora is one you don't want to miss! Get an overview of all the Copilot customization capabilities: plugins, connectors, custom copilots and many more! https://t.co/6pQy0FpBH9#copilot#microsoft365#msbuild