Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

“We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents,” Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. “An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks.”

  • nfh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1101·
    21 hours ago

    If a problem exists, and you try to fix it without AI, do you even stand a chance at getting promoted?

    • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
      351·
      21 hours ago

      It’s rather apparent that you composed this comment without AI. Guess I’ll have to give that pay raise to myself again…

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      171·
      19 hours ago

      Of course this is a solved problem and has been a solved problem for at least 15 years now. It’s called a flat wide hierarchy. Rather than trying to put everything into categories you just put everything into alphabetical order and then have a search box. Want to change the background, it’s under B for Background, rather than having to go to Display Settings > Customisation > Desktop Background > Custom Background > Select Image

      • TheBlackLounge@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        19 hours ago

        Windows already does that. If you type Wallpaper in the search on your task bar, changing your background is at the top. Maybe AI is useful for people who don’t know what the thing they want to do is called? It’s just an extension of flat wide.

        • Taika@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          183·
          19 hours ago

          If you type Wallpaper in the Windows search bar you’ll likely get bing results for ”Top trendy wallpapers to spice up your living room!”

            • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              6·
              18 hours ago

              The real problem with the search bar is that Microsoft chose to make it language dependent, so you will need to know entirely different search terms to navigate e.g. a German Windows install’s settings that way than an English one.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          17 hours ago

          Well sort of, you’re right that they’ve introduced a search bar but that’s all they’ve done. It’s all still broken down into fairly arbitrarily arrived at categories it’s not in alphabet order, or in fact any real order.

          Sound settings are under peripherals for god’s sake. I mean sure okay speakers are a peripheral I guess but when you say peripheral you think things like webcams, not basic I/O.