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Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already (www.techradar.com)
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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

I'll hate it because this already happens with links in MS Teams where despite having a high spec work computer it makes the system so sluggish that the mouse cursor won't move smoothly for 15 seconds or so while it sorts itself out.

I mean I've already got a Core i7 with 32G of RAM and an NVME sitting on my desk so how much freaking horsepower is THIS little stunt going to take?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Edge browser now required a GPU with 12Gb VRAM minimum.

OF COURSE YOU CAN RENT GPU CLOUD COMPUTE!

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Steve.

Steve fuckin’ gets it.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 14 points 4 days ago

Not me though

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis

…I don’t know if any of the above is true but if it didn’t even stop you for a second to question it, isn’t it time to get off Windows?

I’m not even going to recommend an OS, just anything but Windows. Fucking Apple is more trustworthy.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis

That's a depressingly probable reason even though you meant it as techno-babble. It is actually possible that the machine doesn't have enough NPU power!

isn’t it time to get off Windows?

I'm already using Linux everywhere I can both personally and at work, heck even my work laptop is running Linux. The blocker on my work desktop is that the remote access tool I use multiple times a day doesn't have a functional Linux version.

I could switch my work desktop over to Apple but I've never liked MacOS.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

No amount of processing power can beat bad code.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

None, if you ditch windows.