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07 Nov

Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office

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Lauren Goode: Oh, really?Zoë Schiffer: Yes.Lauren Goode: I did not have that experience on Caltrain.Zoë Schiffer: Well, you weren't reading Infinite Jest on the Caltrain, were you now?. That was my catfishing technique.Lauren Goode: What was your worst commute, Mike?Michael Calore: There was a period of time in the early 2000s when I was living out in the Sunset district of San Francisco. Which there's a couple of trains that can bring you downtown, but they take an hour. And it was pre-mobile technology, so we had Discman Walkman players, portable CD players, so you had to bring a little…

Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

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We don't save any of the material with Copilot Vision, so once you close the browser after your session, it all just disappears. It fully deletes. But I'm thinking about if and how to introduce it in the future, because a lot of people do want that experience. If you could just say, ‘What was that picture that I saw online the other day? What was that meme?’ I think we'll have to look into it one day.At the moment, though, the Copilot Vision tool is ephemeral. We'll sort of have to experiment over time and see what makes sense…

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona

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Microsoft deleted the over-eager office assistant Clippy some 17 years ago, but the vision for an friendly and optimistic AI helper has apparently found its way out of the Recycle Bin. The company is overhauling Copilot, the text-based artificial intelligence tool bundled with Windows and other software, with the addition of vision, voice, and the ability to solve more complex problems—along with a more “encouraging” personality.“We really are at this amazing kind of transition point,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. “AI companions now see what we see, hear what we hear, and speak in the same language that…