REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft wants laptop users to feel so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on the computer and help figure out what you want to do next.
The software giant on Monday unveiled an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it faces increasing competition from Big Tech rivals in rolling out general AI technology. can draft documents, create images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or at home.
Announcements ahead of Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference in Seattle focused on bringing AI features to a product where Microsoft has attracted the attention of millions of consumers: the Windows operating system for Windows. for personal computers.
New features will include Windows Recall, which allows the AI assistant to “virtually access what you’ve seen or done on your PC in the same way as having a photographic memory.” Microsoft promises to protect users’ privacy by giving them the option to filter out what they don’t want to be tracked.
The conference follows big AI announcements last week from rival Google, as well as Microsoft’s close business partner OpenAI, which has built the large AI language models that Microsoft’s Copilot is based on. there.
Google has rolled out a retooled search engine that periodically places AI-generated summaries on sitelinks at the top of results pages; and introduced the still-in-development Astra AI assistant that can “see” and talk about things displayed through a smartphone’s camera lens.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI unveiled a new version of its chatbot last week, showing off an AI voice assistant with human characteristics that can joke about what someone is wearing and even try to evaluate one’s emotions. The voice sounded so much like Scarlett Johansson playing the AI character in the sci-fi movie “Her” that OpenAI removed it from its collection on Monday.
OpenAI also launched a new desktop version of ChatGPT designed for Apple Mac computers.
Next up is Apple’s annual developers conference in June. Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in February that it was making a big investment in AI.
Some of Microsoft’s announcements on Monday seemed designed to undercut what Apple has in store. The new AI-enhanced Windows PCs will begin rolling out June 18 on computers made by Microsoft partners Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung, as well as on the Surface device line by Microsoft. But they will be reserved for high-end models starting at $999.
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