Introducing Windows Copilot Runtime
(blogs.windows.com)
from morrowind@lemmy.ml to programming@programming.dev on 22 May 2024 07:41
https://lemmy.ml/post/15926296
from morrowind@lemmy.ml to programming@programming.dev on 22 May 2024 07:41
https://lemmy.ml/post/15926296
Skip the beginning marketing copy. There’s a lot of dev focused news
threaded - newest
They are going to make windows usable so the AI can actually use it, not because humans had issues for years.
Rofl.
And we know that the no-code fad was very successful in the past.
With an infinite supply of shitty projects created by “devs” who can’t code, I’ll have a guaranteed job for ever. Thanks AI!
I bought my first keg with the cash made from un-fucking Dreamweaver output.
I sure hope not. I don’t want Windows to just decide to delete my hard drive because it feels like it.
You could also improve Windows search by contracting with voidtools and integrating Everything. While you’re at it, maybe ditch the bing searches, and other useless search results?
Anyway, the rest of the article seems to go into actual dev-oriented details, and there’s some interesting bits like enabling certain AI acceleration features on the web (probably only in Edge though…), for what that’s worth.
I only learned about Everything recently, and damn I was impressed. I can’t believe I’ve been putting up with Windows’ default search for so long.
Thanks for mentioning Everything, do you have other must-haves to recommend? My company uses Windows and I hate spending so much of my time waiting for Windows to unfreeze and whatnot
If you want to use it in your start menu, there are some options. I know Start11 can use Everything, for example (but isn’t free - there may be free options out there, but I haven’t looked).
Otherwise, most of what I’ve seen are CLI applications. Is there anything specific about Windows you’re hoping to see a replacement for? For me, search and settings (why the f are you advertising to me in the f-ing settings?) are the worst offenders, but settings is kinda locked in for the most part unfortunately.
Christ…
Me: Copilot, how do I disable all this crap?
Copilot: lol you can’t!
I copied the sub-headings from the document, serving as an overview:
That does not sound like a good thing
Nonsense human! Things worked out great in The Terminator. The Matrix. I, Robot, and on and on!
Please continue to consume and reproduce. From one fellow human to another!
These clowns can’t make all your settings in one place.
At least in the future copilot could navigate you to the settings in the different places 😅
I mean yeah, but also that’s the worst dystopian nightmare I’ve ever heard.
“How can I change my desktop background?” “There are four ways to change your desktop background, which would you like to hear more about?”
So Copilot Runtime is… Windows bundling a bunch of models like an OCR model and an image generation model, and then giving your program an API to call them.
Now all they have to do is convince game developers to use this then it’s back to every AAA game being impossible to run in Linux again. Patching out a shitty driver subroutine is one thing but patching out an entire api that complicated is another. Net framework was the achilles heel of Linux compatibility for a long time and I’m sure one of their low-key goals is to find the next monkey wrench to throw into things.
I hate .NET with a passion
It shouldn’t be hard to implement the APIs, the problem would be sourcing the models to sit behind them. You can’t just steal them off Windows or you will have Copyright Problems presumably. I guess you could try and train clones on Windows against the Windows model results?
The Windows integration will surely be awful for users. Windows 11 seems to be getting continuously messier, more convoluted, less focused, less accessible, less approachable, and less understandable. Adding AI and more online service integration won’t make those pain points better. It’ll make them worse.
The investments into technology and APIs like DirectML and “native” PyTorch will likely have a positive impact for developers making use of AI models.
Many of the other changes mentioned are unrelated to AI.
I supposed Dev Home is useful for big companies that need the setup, setting and workflow sharing, and the specialized features.
sudo seems like it could be a neat utility and addition. Git in File Explorer too - although it probably won’t be useful to me personally. (TortoiseGit is already a great shell/File Explorer integration.)
Btw, choco (and maybe even winget?) already has a gsudo tool, which implements sudo. It is super handy, and having a native version is definitely better, but before its available, I recommend gsudo.