Clues to Windows Intelligence found in Windows 11 builds Microsoft seems set to rebrand the AI-powered features in Windows to "Windows Intelligence" even if some of the more controversial elements, such as Recall, are to remain as they are. Word of Windows Intelligence has circulated for a while, although Microsoft has yet to issue any official confirmation. In October, Tero …
Aspects of an LLM in notepad.exe that result in rephrasing suggestions that are often worse than their input and a Copilot nobody wants to spend real money on should have made it clear:
The LLM-in-everything variant of AI is currently a huge commercial bubble about to burst.
There is simply no real use case to have a more or less context-aware also-ran-grade text generation capability inside a general OS, because that capability is typically placed in front of the keyboard. At the same time all this AI-infused/infested stuff generates uncurable privacy nightmares just by the way it operates.
So what Microsoft is currently trying here, will be very good reasons to avoid Windows 11 at all cost as long as possible.
You're absolutely right there! I have only one Windows machine left (for some software that's still not available on Linux - oi, Affinity, get on with it!). All my others are now running Linux in some form or fashion and, after being defenestrated, are no longer staggering along attempting to run Microsoft's turgid mess.
Only if there is a genuine risk that the two may be confused in the public mind.
For example, if MS decide to use another upbeat version of a well-known tune to advertise their wares and it becomes inextricably linked in the public mind whenever they see "WI" and hear "Jammin' Jerusalem".
The one with the boutonniere made from empty Beech Nut husk clusters, thank you.
After learning from two successive sentences in TFA that "Apple Intelligence" can use the initialism "AI" (always worth repeating the major point, in case we miss it), there are not as many ways to extend "AI"[1] whereas "WI" has so many obvious applications...
Windows Intelligence Neural Knowledgebase: Learning Edition (complete with pins).
Windows Intelligence Turing Complete Horology (the long awaited replacement for the Win'7 clock widget).
The sales and marketing application, Windows Intelligence Driven Data Lake Extractor.
And, of course, the new online assistant, Digby, from Windows Intelligence Generative Adversarial Networks.
The list goes on (and probably will).
[1] Apple Intelligence Modified Language Engine Support System? Ok, there are quite a few, but not as many.
>>> With Windows Intelligence, Microsoft is attempting something similar, although "Apple Intelligence" can be handily shortened to "AI".
As many have pointed out already - 'WI' is the Woman's Institute here in Blighty. Yes, cue mobs of angry cake-wielding ladies, protesting outside Microsoft's UK HQ. Who could blame them? Why would anyone want to be associated with Microsoft's attempt to create world domination by computers - whether deliberately or by coincidence?
Besides, who would want such an association when RI (Real Intelligence) is already doing such a fine job of messing things up without AI getting a look-in? Once AI firmly has the reins, we can look forward to some truly monumental cock-ups, such as ordering 10 tonnes of sugar instead of 10kgs when making jam...
There I was expecting Alice Roberts or Joann Fletcher turning up to tell us how they had found evidence of long lost traces of intelligence from past versions that could still be found today...
And how the use of any intelligence became an evolutionary dead-end in favour of a six-legged dromedary approach.
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