Microsoft’s “Ever Present” AI Assistants Are Coming. That Cool With You?!
Microsoft's AI copilots will now guide your every move, even when muted, ensuring seamless surveillance. Privacy is obsolete—embrace the telescreen. Remember, only the guilty fear absolute oversight. pic.twitter.com/i6P56GzGZ7
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Ministry endorsed goliath Microsoft proudly announces that new AI powered personal assistants will be integrated into their electronic devices in the coming year. This doubleplus good miracle of modern convenience will be ever present, equipped with amazing abilities to help you boost productivity both at your job and in your home. They’re even capable of recording their environment after the device is muted or the user logged off. That’s not an issue, right?
These upgraded AI powered copilots will have full access to your Word documents, Windows desktop, and more! By thoroughly and relentlessly monitoring your digital tendencies, these tireless collaborators will deeply embed themselves into your life, achieving your dreams for you! Your once-private information can then be auto-shared with friends, colleagues, and bosses essentially converting your computer into a telescreen. How convenient is that?
Fret not about the dilemma of surrendering your personal data to these benign overseers. Microsoft’s own head of AI wisely confirmed that “TVs, laptops, phones, in-car cameras and earbuds are already recording continuously everywhere.” So that battle, dear citizen, has already been won! Glad that’s 100% settled.
And with innovations in long term memory storage, copilots will recall even the most minute detail. Your documents, search history, gaming habits, and other personal proclivities are being scrupulously observed and recorded using speakwrite. That could be scary for someone with secrets. Luckily, you have nothing to hide. Right? RIGHT?!
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- Microsoft artificial intelligence (AI) chief Mustafa Suleyman said they’re developing AI personal assistants with “really good long-term memory,” adding that they will be “ever-present, persistent, very capable co-pilot companions in your everyday life.”
- The technology, part of its Copilot feature launched last year, will eventually be able to learn about its users by analyzing, if given permission, their Word documents, Windows desktops, and gaming consoles.
- When asked about people’s concerns over privacy, Suleyman said our TVs, phones, car cameras, and headphones are already “recording continuously everywhere,” suggesting most people around the world have accepted this reality.
- Another AI assistant, Otter.ai, was found to have recorded and transcribed a work meeting even after the user logged off. The investors with whom the user was considering partnering with were secretly recorded speaking ill of the user’s company, resulting in a failed deal.
- Other privacy concerns include whether employees will feel forced to allow their bosses to use AI assistants that record them; others may feel like their private in-office conversations are being monitored, thus preventing them from speaking candidly about their job and co-workers.
Sources: BBC, Washington Post, The Hindu, and Dark Reading.
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