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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
submitted 1 day ago by zaxvenz@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Windows already does that. If you type Wallpaper in the search on your task bar, changing your background is at the top. Maybe AI is useful for people who don't know what the thing they want to do is called? It's just an extension of flat wide.

[–] Taika@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you type Wallpaper in the Windows search bar you’ll likely get bing results for ”Top trendy wallpapers to spice up your living room!”

[–] TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean likely? You don't.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

The real problem with the search bar is that Microsoft chose to make it language dependent, so you will need to know entirely different search terms to navigate e.g. a German Windows install's settings that way than an English one.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well sort of, you're right that they've introduced a search bar but that's all they've done. It's all still broken down into fairly arbitrarily arrived at categories it's not in alphabet order, or in fact any real order.

Sound settings are under peripherals for god's sake. I mean sure okay speakers are a peripheral I guess but when you say peripheral you think things like webcams, not basic I/O.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is I/O in this context input/output? I’ve seen it used this way before but I’m not super techie so no clue.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

It is, yes.