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• Microsoft is pushing Copilot AI out to you

  Posted on January 22, 2024 at 02:44 CST by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

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  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  The Microsoft Corporation is moving swiftly to make its Copilot artificial-intelligence software an integral part of Windows and the company’s Microsoft 365 suite of office applications.

  Redmond reportedly even plans to build Copilot into the Notepad text editor (perhaps for all those readme.txt files you can’t compose by yourself).

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.04.0, 2024-01-22).

  Public Defender Aforai, Andonix, Bing Chat, ChatNBX, Claude, Google Bard, Green AI, Newsletters, Pareto, Perplexity, YouChat

• Bing Chat is sorry

  Posted on January 22, 2024 at 02:42 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  COMMENTARY

  

  By Will Fastie

  I thought it had no emotions.

  It took only one sentence for Bing Chat to annoy me.

  More importantly, that one sentence was so loaded that it begs for comment. And it raises serious questions about AI.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.04.0, 2024-01-22).

  Commentary AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bing, Bing Chat, Copilot, Edge, Newsletters

• Learning to program PowerShell with AI

  Posted on November 6, 2023 at 02:44 CST by Bruce Kriebel • Comment in the Forums

  WINDOWS

  

  By Bruce Kriebel

  The media has been ablaze with headlines shouting that AI will put programmers out of jobs.

  Less discussed is how AI can help professional and even novice programmers learn a new language. An excellent case for this is Windows PowerShell.

  PowerShell is, well, powerful. It’s a great tool for writing scripts, especially special-purpose or time-saving scripts that solve tiny problems in a way that allows customization so that you get the exact result you desired. But PowerShell is very different from the command-line language handed down from the earliest days of MS-DOS. That makes learning it daunting.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.45.0, 2023-11-06).

  Windows AI, Bing Chat, ChatGPT, Google Bard, Newsletters, PowerShell, Scripting

• Taming Copilot

  Posted on October 9, 2023 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  I use devices that include artificial intelligence and cloud services, and you probably do, too.

  For example, I regularly ask Alexa about the weather: “Hey ,Alexa — what’s the seven-day weather forecast?” That helps me know whether it’s going to be cooler on the weekend so I can garden. I have apps that control thermostats, security cameras, and garage doors. Amazon can open my garage door and drop off packages so they don’t get stolen by porch pirates.

  So it’s not that I’m against using cloud services or voice-activated devices.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.41.0, 2023-10-09).

  Patch Watch AI, Bing Chat, Copilot, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, Windows Copilot