Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  1. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

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    by Tom Warren Oct 16, 2025
     
  2. longshots

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    Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let [Microsoft's] AI control it... what could go wrong
     
  3. Tarnak

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    I don't even allow Google Assistant on my Android smartphone. So, I will never allow a Microsoft version of Hal 9000.
     
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    Microsoft needn't concern too much about that.
    I'm sure users already do a great deal of talking to their PC every time something goes wonkers.:argh:

    Now on the other hand they have surely already prepped that colorful foundation in it now for users to dictate using a combo of Ai and passing on duties to Co-Pilot while they measure on their end the content and what have you. We're right back to Windows 98 again with speech recognition and Power Toys little animated assistant bots. Except that this one has more potential and gets reviewed on their end etc. Some things never change.
     
  5. Tarnak

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    They are getting ready, as I just got this exe a short time ago.

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  6. Tarnak

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    More info:

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  7. Tarnak

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    I think I was barking up the wrong tree. ;) It has to with Cortana, which I have just uninstalled.
     
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    Speech-controlled computers? OMG, I just flashed back to this for some reason:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U
     
  9. ronjor

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    AI-powered features begin creeping deeper into the bedrock of Windows 11
     
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    So where does this end? With "I, Robot", or "The Terminator"?
     
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    yeah, that will never happen for me...
     
  12. emmjay

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    No Microsoft, I do not want your 'Awesome Ingrate', aka AI, chirping out suggestions or chatting with me while I work.

    My family use MS ... making me their local techie. I can only imagine them calling me to tell me that the computer told them to do something and they did it. :gack:
     
  13. T-RHex

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    Not that I like the idea or that Microsoft is pushing more AI on Windows, but wasn't there a time when we watched Star Trek and thought it was cool they could talk to the computer? Of course, we could note that the computer didn't fly the ship, it still relied on the crew... :D
     
  14. longshots

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    How long is a piece of string?
    We are at the nursery stage of AI and as such there is much to learn.
    We now see daily advancements and improvements in the tech - perhaps not always to our benefit.

    As to your post, it never ends.
    The genie is out of the bottle...
     
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    Both awesome movies! I believe this AI nonsense needs to be stopped, before it's too late. Especially Tesla is a huge risk with those Optimus robots and self driving cars (bad for cab drivers). And on topic, I have no interest in talking to my PC and using CoPilot to do stuff for me.
     
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    Musk's plan for an Army of Robots. This is actually on-topic because it is all about INFLUENCE and CONTROL. MS has always been the poster-child of this.

    As Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan, put it, “When you see one cockroach, there are probably many more.”

    https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/elon-musk-remarks-robot-army

     
  17. TairikuOkami

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    Microsoft wants ..., not customers want. That sums it up. As long as I can block AI, I do not care, but once it becomes mandatory, probably in 12, I will seriously reconsider Linux.
     

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    https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-is...ux-kernel-and-official-policy-is-needed-asap/
     
  19. Mrkvonic

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    Insert John Candy sure sure meme.
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  20. T-RHex

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    What's concerning is that ai will now be creeping into any software we use, whether it's open source or not. And who's going to (or can) guarantee that someone doesn't sneak in AI generated malicious code, inadvertantly or not, into a kernel or low level software service (Linux repository, open source driver, DNS service, etc), and compromise the entire system? If we can't trust the OS, we're completely hosed.
     
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