Microsoft Brings Its New AI-powered Bing To the Windows 11 Taskbar (theverge.com) 39
Microsoft is releasing an update to Windows 11 today that adds the company's new AI-powered Bing search to the taskbar. From a report: The new Windows 11 update will offer quick access to the new Bing chat feature alongside a bunch of new features. Windows 11 is also getting improvements to widgets, a better touch mode, a screen recording feature, tabs inside Notepad, and more. The new Bing integration is a surprise addition that Microsoft hasn't been testing with its Windows Insiders. A new Bing icon will appear within the search box in the taskbar, with Microsoft highlighting the new chat answers experience in the search flyout. While chat answers won't be available directly within the search flyout, Windows 11 users will be able to quickly start a Bing chat in Edge from here -- providing they have access to the Bing preview. Microsoft is also opening up a preview of its Phone Link app for iOS, meaning iPhone users can link their devices to Windows. This will include access to send and receive messages (yes, even iMessage), calls, and notifications.
and no one can use it (Score:3)
Microsoft Brings Its New AI-powered Bing To the Windows 11 Taskbar
... and no one can use it, because everyone is in the waiting list
Re:and no one can use it (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft Brings Its New AI-powered Bing To the Windows 11 Taskbar
... and no one can use it, because everyone is in the waiting list
Well, I was going to say The End has Come, but I guess it will have to wait....
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Microsoft Brings Its New AI-powered Bing To the Windows 11 Taskbar
... and no one can use it, because everyone is in the waiting list
Well, I was going to say The End has Come, but I guess it will have to wait....
Fuck! More waiting? That fucking sucks! I am tired of waiting!
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Great!! (Score:4, Funny)
Best news ever,. Totally radical I can have yet another AI failure on my desktop producing useless results.
Microsoft Please place it next to Cortana and Clippy,so I can keep the useless pieces of your OS together.
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Best news ever,. Totally radical I can have yet another AI failure on my desktop producing useless results.
Microsoft Please place it next to Cortana and Clippy,so I can keep the useless pieces of your OS together.
Don't you mean acting as a data source for their building of the product so it's less useless to others in the future, you know, after another company has produced something very superior to said end product you're, without official consent, giving data sets to? ;)
*gasp for air*
I know that's a mouth full, but that tends to be the path MS follows.
Well these days they might just be selling the data off to another company that's building "the product", whatever that ends up being... but it will, nevertheless,
Re:Great!! (Score:5, Insightful)
BobHAL 9000
"My God, it's full of...spam!"
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The dream is to have a Star Trek like computer (TNG era) that you can ask natural language questions, and get an accurate answer. You can even ask it do work for you, like narrowing down database entries by additional criteria.
Unfortunately ChatGPT and the rest are very, very far away from being able to do that. They have no understanding of the material they use for reference, and are poor at even pulling basic factual information out of it.
They really are just an evolution of Eliza. Very convincing at tim
Re: Great!! (Score:2)
I know. It is fairly easy to corrupt their words entirely. At best bing AI should produce more accurate search results. In reality they will over ride the programming so many times to promote specific products companies that it will be useless
Remember the correct answer to bing searches is usually 10th on the list. The other 9 being paid advertisements pretending to be useful
Re:Great!! (Score:4, Insightful)
funny how whenever MS rolls out a new feature, the most common reaction seems to be
>how do i disable it
really, MS should take that as a learning opportunity
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If they did, they'd roll out a new feature to disable things, and people would need to figure out how to disable that.
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Hi, I'm Clippy, your natural language assistant! It looks like you're trying to "Disable Clippy". Can I help you with that?!
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Clippy, how do I light my computer on fire, and where is the nearest swamp to throw it into?
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No, no, no Mr. Clippy, I'm BingBot the real natural language whizzy. You are a left over ghost. I'm New, I'm Natural, I'm the future of product placement in MS software.
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It's like they misses the utter humiliation of Microsoft Bob.
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funny how whenever MS rolls out a new feature, the most common reaction seems to be
>how do i disable it
It's also funny later, when Microsoft discontinues said feature, and everybody complains about Microsoft taking away something they were using every day...
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you know, the only newish feature i ever find myself using regularly is the snipping tool.
of course they plan to 'move' it in a future update, so here we are.
(i'm assuming it'll be given a larger feature set, be more cumbersome, etc etc. sometimes when you want a barebones tool, less is more. like notepad.)
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Microsoft Please place it next to Cortana and Clippy,so I can keep the useless pieces of your OS together.
Oh, don't do that. They'll breed.
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If only you could pipe all three together into a three way chat...
Neat! (Score:3)
Does anyone know if disabling the web result will kill this? I shudder at the future.
File it under: Remove (Score:5, Insightful)
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I don't need that crap. I do useful things with my computer.
Why? The model is to sit in a chair with muscle atrophy (except for the fingers punching crap into that smart phone, of course), drooling and obeying the command of the 20 advertisements and subliminal marketing sessions being simultaneously displayed. Wait, wasn't there a movie with something like that in it? ;)
Cortana vs Sydney (Score:3)
When does Microsoft learn? (Score:4, Insightful)
Featurites is not going to help your OS become more lightweight.
They'd do better to strip Windows of all useless crap and keep it simple and small.
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Their strategy isn't to be lightweight, it is to compete with BYOD.
Siri and Google Assistant specifically.
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Windows 2000 was simple. Not sure about small. It did everything you asked it to do and nothing else. It never got in your way.
I find it useful (Score:3, Troll)
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Sniff...you poor little right-wing snowflake. Maybe you could grab your gun and, I don't know, parade around outside with it so the neighbors know you are a half-baked loon...best do it in your faux camouflage outfit so you'll look real authentic. Tell the neighbors you are protecting them from Antifa or the green M&Ms.
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i can't tell if you are actually a progressive, or just pretending to be retarded. .. tax returns or something.
you do however sound like one of those people that if you heard the name 'trump', you'd break out in a hive and go on a weird rant about
that said, your little .. rant? was not a refutation of what he said, at all.
Well, that's great... (Score:2)
Soooooo.... how do you turn it off?
Not good enough for real work (Score:2)
Is this going to be called Windows 10++ still? (Score:2)
Anyone actually use Bing?
Cool cool cool (Score:2)
So I can get "AI" powered search which will use planet-burning amounts of energy to undoubtedly ultimately be used for the primary purpose of putting targeted ads in my face, right on the task bar, but I can't get a couple checkboxes in options so I can configure my taskbar so that it works like the taskbar has for more than two decades of previous Windows versions
Clippy (Score:1)
Yay clippy is back!