Microsoft May Bring AI Capabilities To Apps Like Paint and Photos On Windows 11

According to Windows Central, Microsoft might be bringing AI capabilities to a handful of Windows 11 apps, including Photos, Snipping Tool, and Paint. "Some of this functionality will require dedicated hardware, such as an NPU (neural processing unit) or VPU (vision processing unit,) while others may not," notes the report. From the report: For the Photos app, Microsoft is working on an AI functionality that would allow the app to identify objects or people in photos and enable the ability to cut out and paste those elements elsewhere. This is a functionality that iOS and Android have had for some time, so it's no surprise to hear that Microsoft is also working to bring it to Windows.

Regarding the Snipping Tool, my sources say the company wants to incorporate OCR (optical character recognition) technology to enable Windows to identify text in screenshots for faster clipboard copying. Microsoft is also working on bringing OCR to the Camera app, allowing users to select text in a photo taken on the device.

Lastly, my sources say Microsoft has also been experimenting with bringing generative AI to the Windows 11 Paint app. Users could ask Paint to create a canvas based on criteria set out by the user, similar to how Bing Image Creator currently works. Sources say the Paint AI integration will be based on that same Bing technology.

Snipping Tool

[TwistedGreen]

Gee, and I thought they were removing the snipping tool.

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[thegreatbob]

Perhaps they suddenly realized that features frequently used by a small minority of users actually have value. My actual suggestion is that it's due to ever-escalating popularity: https://trends.google.com/tren... [google.com]

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[AmiMoJo]

I think it's being replaced by another similar tool that has a few more editing options. For whatever reason they decided not to improve Snipping Tool and start from scratch. At least that's what I heard last, they might have changed their minds.

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[Tony Isaac]

They were just moving the functionality to another similar tool called "Snip and Sketch"--not getting rid of it entirely.

https://www.techradar.com/news... [techradar.com]

It will be used to make pron

[rossdee]

So someone will try to ban it

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[93 Escort Wagon]

MS Paint porn?

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[Required Snark]

According to Google search: About 8,230,000 results

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[Malays2b0wen]

Once upon a time, your online wank fuel was in the form of ascii art or super low rez graphics with a very limited color palette if you were lucky.

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[Malays2b0wen]

Those horses ran out of the barn and died in the field of old age long before the farmer could get to the door to shut it.

per the eula we own the right to your photos &

[Joe_Dragon]

per the eula we own the right to your photos & work done in paint

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[outtaspace]

please tell me you imagined that

Paint with chippy!

[Joe_Dragon]

Paint with chippy!

It looks like you are trying to color a dinosaur do you need help?

Animate crappy drawings with AI!

[LindleyF]

That would be worth seeing.

Bloat, bloat, bloat, and bloat

[Iamthecheese]

Thank you for using Microsoft for all your bloatware needs.

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[Malays2b0wen]

Either this got modded down by someone working at M$ or someone who would benefit from these features being used for nefarious purposes against Paint users, or they thought the "they/it" was some sort of pronoun slur. They/it = Micro$oft/AI. :-\

I'm in !

[TTL0]

If they include Minesweeper and Solitaire

No problem

[drinkypoo]

Policies prohibit me installing any of that shit anyway, so I'm safe from it.

More Subscriptions

[DrSpock11]

This is ultimately all about driving more subscription revenue. Just like the "Python in Excel" news from yesterday, which will require an extra subscription once it reaches GA, I'm sure all these potential ML use cases will only ship all their compute to Azure and require an extra subscription to access.