This looks like it could be great. I use GPT-4 all the time, so a system-wide integration and especially assistant capabilities sound nice to me. And yet I cannot make myself excited for this.
I can't get past the feeling that Windows Copilot will be used in slimy anti-privacy ways. I am somehow very sceptical that it will only use the screen's context as context for the user's queries. Probably because many new Windows 11 features have been anti-consumer, and Microsoft have been consistent at building this kind of reputation for years. It has numbed all of my excitement for anything Microsoft does.
Continuing the justified, if cynical take, in the near-term I'd worry less about privacy, and more about ads. Microsoft has a track record of putting overt and covert advertising directly into the OS. With deep system-wide integration and awareness of commercial applications, how long it'll take before Windows Copilot turns into a sneaky salesman, preferentially suggesting commercial tools and solutions of the highest bidders, while Microsoft gulps up a firehose of money coming from approximately every company of the planet paying to slot themselves into model fine-tuning?
I can't get past the feeling that Windows Copilot will be used in slimy anti-privacy ways. I am somehow very sceptical that it will only use the screen's context as context for the user's queries. Probably because many new Windows 11 features have been anti-consumer, and Microsoft have been consistent at building this kind of reputation for years. It has numbed all of my excitement for anything Microsoft does.