Microsoft Tests AI Text Generation in Notepad (windows.com) 37
Microsoft is testing AI-powered text generation in Notepad for Windows 11 Insiders with Copilot Plus PCs, allowing users to draft content from prompts or build on existing text through a right-click menu. The update also introduces Paint's AI sticker generator and Snipping Tool enhancements including automatic screenshot cropping. The Write feature requires Microsoft account sign-in and uses the same credit system as other Windows 11 AI features.
Could you please not? (Score:4, Insightful)
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But how else will the big evil corp be able to inflate the "number of users" for their AI bullshit to their investors to prove its "Worth it" to invest, without the big evil corp making it in every single aspect of our daily lives, effectively inflating the numbers to the moon !?
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They could just present any numbers they want, it's not like anyone has the ability to check.
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And they remain that. You don't think Notepad is getting an AI engine do you? It's getting a button, the existing windows APIs do all the work. Notepad now has a spellchecker, and AI text generation, and ... it's still a 300kb program that launches instantly and consumes only a couple of MB of memory.
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On my Win11 workstation, an empty Notepad.exe instance uses 55MB of RAM. BTW this is more than the total amount of RAM consumed by 1990's operating systems in their entirety, which included Notepad. The exe is only "small" because all the libraries are shared libraries, but they still consume resources.
As a comparison here of active running things on this workstation that use -LESS- RAM than an empty freshly launched Notepad instance: Windows Explorer, the Intel ARC control panel, multiple WebView component
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Wow. Windows 1.0 ran on computers with only 256Kb of RAM, and it already had Notepad, Write and Paint/Paintbrush.
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You sure you didn't misplace a decimal point? Mine uses just over 5MB.
BTW this is more than the total amount of RAM consumed by 1990's operating systems in their entirety, which included Notepad.
Not sure what point you're trying to make there, but I remind you that your 1990s operating system took ages to load and Notepad pops up in an instance. Your apples to oranges comparison is bananas, in modern equivalent terms Notepad remains possibly the most resource friendly program on a PC.
because all the libraries are shared libraries, but they still consume resources.
No, everything offloaded to a shared library is not a Notepad resource. It's a resource that is already used. Even if you go and download a 90s vers
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Could we please just leave them all alone and add these "features" into a new app that I can uninstall or ignore? Thx.
Ha ha ha, No, here at Microsoft;
"We're not happy, until your not happy."
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I thought they were discontinuing WordPad.
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Replace it with Notepad++, or Notepad2.
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Notepad, PBrush and (formerly) WordPad were simple tools designed to do the bare minimum. In fact I think Notepad was originally designed as a demo of the multiline text control. Could we please just leave them all alone and add these "features" into a new app that I can uninstall or ignore? Thx.
You will take AI everything and you will LOVE IT! OR ELSE!
Or else find another operating system. Because Microsoft has decided AI *WILL* infect every single aspect of their OS. Top to bottom, login to shutdown.
clippy says it's looks like you are editing an con (Score:2)
clippy says it's looks like you are editing an config file.
Do you want me to down load and install gui config edit only 1GB download size?
Just where I want AI (Score:2)
In something that I can easily avoid.
Great, more AI slop... (Score:2)
I dread the day when I have to tell students that no, unless they write to me _themselves_, I will not read what they sent.
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I dread the day when I have to tell students that no, unless they write to me _themselves_, I will not read what they sent.
This reminds me of when rsilvergun mentioned that he was waiting for the day when he'd be able to order dog food online.
"The ship's sailed, the horse is galloping after it, the barn's on fire, and the genie’s live-streaming the whole thing." - ChatGPT (so don't read it)
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Why does it matter to you so much if your students are human? Can intelligence continue in non-human form? Has anti-natalism suddenly become rational?
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Is this a serious question?
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If intelligence can exist in a non-human form (and this is a big IF), then that intelligence would surely not need a human teacher.
Thanks Microsoft! (Score:2)
Yet another reason to finally delete my windows partition and go 100% Linux only.
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It's not all that difficult to do.
Depending on your skill level (for wont of a better word), there are a ton of solid distros available, some with varied goals and configurations. You don't even really need to use a terminal for anything - though you can - for most distros. There's no archaic installation processes, unless you seek those out specifically. It's a point and click affair with a GUI-centric experience.
Though, at the end of the day, they're all Linux underneath. You don't even need 'geek cred' t
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Sorry I should have been more explicit:
The only reason I even keep a windows partition around is for gaming,
Everything else already gets done in Linux (actual Linux not WSL) by way of dual-booting at home, and because my work PC has been Linux-only for years, so I already have it covered, thanks.
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OK, ChatGPT.
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Dude are you actually accusing me of being an AI?
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If you haven't done it so far, an icon being added to Notepad isn't going to change anything. Stop lying to yourself (or us).
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The only reason i even keep windows around is for gaming,
Everything else already gets done in Linux (actual Linux not WSL) by way of dual-booting.
But with steam doing an increasingly good job with Proton, and Microsoft forcing increasingly clueless shit like this and privacy-raping shit like Recall on users, I'm finally 101% done with them.
Luckily Microsoft launched edit (Score:2)
ZERO DAY EXPLOITS (Score:1)
Microsoft quit fucking around with Notepad, CoPilot, Clippy, etc.
FIX YOUR 30 YEAR OLD BUGS. STOP FOCUSING ON BEING Win95 compatible. FIX YOUR BUGS.
Your software gets hacked EVERY SINGLE DAY and all you do is put lipstick on the pig.
We need a word (Score:2)
For bloating an application by adding unneeded AI to it. Enstupidification?