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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The software giant on Monday revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it confronts heightened competition from big tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home.

The new features will include Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to “access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory”.

Google rolled out a retooled search engine that periodically puts AI-generated summaries over website links at the top of the results page; while also showing off a still-in-development AI assistant Astra that will be able to “see” and converse about things shown through a smartphone’s camera lens.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI unveiled a new version of its chatbot last week, demonstrating an AI voice assistant with human characteristics that can banter about what someone’s wearing and even attempt to assess a person’s emotions.

Though Microsoft has invested billions in OpenAI, the startup also rolled out a new desktop version of ChatGPT designed for Apple’s Mac computers.

The Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in February that it has been making big investments in generative AI.


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[–] IsThisAnAI 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microsoft says that the Recall index remains local and private on-device, encrypted in a way that is linked to a particular user's account. "Recall screenshots are only linked to a specific user profile and Recall does not share them with other users, make them available for Microsoft to view, or use them for targeting advertisements. Screenshots are only available to the person whose profile was used to sign in to the device," Microsoft says.

Users can pause, stop, or delete captured content and can exclude specific apps or websites. Recall won't take snapshots of InPrivate web browsing sessions in Microsoft Edge or DRM-protected content

Optional and local. Meh.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Google used to claim that all of their scanning was anonymized and contained no personally identifiable information. Companies lie all the time, especially when they're committing egregious privacy intrusions.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] AtariDump 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Anticorp 2 points 1 month ago

Well that's dystopian...

[–] werefreeatlast 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So this is simply a WEC but in someone else's server.

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