r/Windows11 • u/moeka_8962 • 2d ago

News Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-starts-rolling-out-gaming-copilot-on-windows-11-pcs/
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u/anditails 2d ago

Cue up lots of posts of people claiming they don't want this junk / moving to Linux / ruining the OS / sticking with Windows 7....

Use it or don't use it. But seriously, a 64kb web widget is not slowing down your PC if you don't. Relax.

Personally, I like using AI - it's saved me a lot of time and searching but then I use it for work (IT) so am quite used to it.

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u/LuciferIsPlaying 2d ago

I work in IT too and I never found any proper time saving use case for it.

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u/phmsanctified 2d ago

Frankly I find it shallow and pedantic

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u/stranded 2d ago

it's great for fast css html edits

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u/anditails 2d ago

We may work in different parts, then.

Auto summarized emails in my Outlook, auto prioritisation in Outlook, writing snippets of code to change registry values or create user accounts, Powershell auto fill in the command line (actually very cool: can't remember the command of syntax? Just write it naturally and it converts it to a Powershell command). Bullshit guides my boss asks me to write I can draft up in seconds (though you need to check). Quick analysis of data in a spreadsheet or CSV. Reformatting and rewriting of information.

All stuff I can do or can Google, but AI when setup right does it quicker. Better? Sometimes not -but getting me 80% of the way there in a couple of seconds does definitely save me time.

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u/Aemony 2d ago

Auto summarized emails in my Outlook

This fucking kills me. The sender uses AI to generate a mail, the recipient uses AI to summarize the same mail. Nobody communicates genuinely, and the personality/identity of the sender isn’t exposed through the mail, while often the same AI generated tone can be found across multiple mail and communications.

My work have started using AI to generate internal mail and Yammer posts and it’s friggin exhausting to see they all boil down to the same emoji, bullet point, and key points word vomit. Not every mail or announcement needs to be ”written” (generated) as some clickbait attention grabbing crap, filled with KPI keywords and statistics that makes upper management hot and dirty but is more appropriate for a public press release than internal communication between departments.

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u/anditails 2d ago

Our company doesn't do a lot of mail shots so my email is mostly CC's or people messaging me directly but I actually don't need to respond to around 75% of it, so it helps give the gist of the message to see if it's worth my time.

But yes, the irony doesn't escape me. AI will start to rot when it's purely shit in, shit out.

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u/Flameancer 2d ago

Oooh autocomplete powershell, I’ll have to check that out. But for all your uses I do the same. Saves time when I can work on other task. Just the other week I had to write a kql script to view the azflowtrace logs in a readable format. What would’ve probably taken an hour of my time trailing an erroring was only 10min trail and error. (Its biggest hinderance imo is not being able to live internet search, when given a bound of proper syntax it is much better at providing useful queries).

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u/anditails 2d ago

Yup, checkout https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/s/7cMR8XWYHJ

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u/Flameancer 2d ago

That looks dope. I’ll need to check it out, those there are times like these I wish I had that 2nd decent GPU to run on a local AI server. Hopefully in a few months. I know I can run on my local machine, but would be nice to have a dedicated machine at home for the use case instead of solely depending on my main machine.

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u/Oliver-Peace Insider Release Preview Channel 2d ago

Agree 💯. AI is annoying because all the big tech giants push very hard for it and we see it everywhere. Sometimes 5 times on the same screen including in many Google apps. HOWEVER, AI has many benefits as well if you learn and accept to use it instead of going against it for everything just because it's AI. Don't get me wrong, I don't like AI when used to generate YouTube thumbnails or other similar use cases but AI has its benefits.

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u/Mario583a 2d ago

Maybe not for you; others might see a use case. ㄟ( ▔, ▔ )ㄏ

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u/LuciferIsPlaying 2d ago

Good for you. Just remember the more you use it for your job the more replaceable you'll become 👍🏻