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Who asked for this? What problem does this solve?

autoexec 2y ago
Microsoft, who is likely collecting data from this feature somehow even if the raw video/images never leave the PC. I imagine law enforcement and three letter agencies love it too since now they'll just have to be able to access someone's windows account (MS will help them) to see everything a suspect ever done using their PC. They can even just chat with the AI about what it saw. That windows user had better hope it doesn't start hallucinating and invent a story about something that sounds criminal.
halJordan 2y ago
People have been asking for this since computers were invented. Dont act like just asking the computer and getting the needle from the haystack hasnt been chased since Kernighan wrote the first line of grep. The anti-genAI luddite nonsense has zero place on such a prestigious pro-technology platform.
- squigz 2y ago
  Oh dear you were doing good up until the last sentence.
  - fortyseven 2y ago
    I mean, shit, I love seeing all the various AI advancements, but even I wouldn't want this crap built into my OS. At least not unless it's something I can self-host, and have full control over. My days of letting a corporation get it's data hooks into my personal information are long gone, as long as I have any say in the matter. I don't trust them, nor how absolutely drunk they are on shoving AI into every possible hole right now.
    - klyrs 2y ago
      I'm pretty sure we warned you that capitalists were behind this. But no, you loved the shiny. I'd say to flee to Linux, but Mozilla's already on the AI train. Computers are going to shit faster than we can react. Is this what the singularity feels like?
ungreased0675 2y ago
This is a feature I specifically do not want.
rolph 2y ago
this is nothing, wait until it really kick-backs in, and distributors start getting payoffs to only offer AI chipped hardware with w11 factory loaded.
cmpalmer52 2y ago
This is specifically something some coworkers and I were discussing the other day. Someone said, “I want to ask it where I read an article about (some topic) last week.” or “I remember seeing that when I was researching something else. I wish I’d saved the URL.” So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course).
- skydhash 2y ago
  > So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course). Why not just use your browser history?
  - cmpalmer52 2y ago
    Needle in a haystack when you’ve opened and closed several hundred tabs and you’re trying to find some random fact you ran across a week or two ago.
- mburns 2y ago
  https://www.browserparrot.com/ https://www.browserparrot.com/
- perkolator 2y ago
  My browser history seems to work fine for this. Recording everything on the screen for this use case is completely absurd.
- cheald 2y ago
  FWIW, I've gotten in the habit of using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/ https://www.zotero.org/) with a browser extension to do this. If I read something that I think I might want to reference later, I just hit an extension button and it gets slurped into Zotero with a bunch of information indexed for retrieval later.
  - coderatlarge 2y ago
    How much better is that than safari export-to-pdf and spotlight?
floppiplopp 2y ago
Maybe it'll help sift through the garbage pile of AI slop that AI will create, but the total recall results will partly hallucinated and be basically worthless. But it's AI, so much hype, very wow.

Microsoft, who is likely collecting data from this feature somehow even if the raw video/images never leave the PC. I imagine law enforcement and three letter agencies love it too since now they'll just have to be able to access someone's windows account (MS will help them) to see everything a suspect ever done using their PC. They can even just chat with the AI about what it saw. That windows user had better hope it doesn't start hallucinating and invent a story about something that sounds criminal.

halJordan 2y ago

People have been asking for this since computers were invented. Dont act like just asking the computer and getting the needle from the haystack hasnt been chased since Kernighan wrote the first line of grep. The anti-genAI luddite nonsense has zero place on such a prestigious pro-technology platform.

squigz 2y ago
Oh dear you were doing good up until the last sentence.
- fortyseven 2y ago
  I mean, shit, I love seeing all the various AI advancements, but even I wouldn't want this crap built into my OS. At least not unless it's something I can self-host, and have full control over. My days of letting a corporation get it's data hooks into my personal information are long gone, as long as I have any say in the matter. I don't trust them, nor how absolutely drunk they are on shoving AI into every possible hole right now.
  - klyrs 2y ago
    I'm pretty sure we warned you that capitalists were behind this. But no, you loved the shiny. I'd say to flee to Linux, but Mozilla's already on the AI train. Computers are going to shit faster than we can react. Is this what the singularity feels like?

ungreased0675 2y ago

This is a feature I specifically do not want.

rolph 2y ago

this is nothing, wait until it really kick-backs in, and distributors start getting payoffs to only offer AI chipped hardware with w11 factory loaded.

cmpalmer52 2y ago

This is specifically something some coworkers and I were discussing the other day. Someone said, “I want to ask it where I read an article about (some topic) last week.” or “I remember seeing that when I was researching something else. I wish I’d saved the URL.” So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course).

skydhash 2y ago
> So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course). Why not just use your browser history?
- cmpalmer52 2y ago
  Needle in a haystack when you’ve opened and closed several hundred tabs and you’re trying to find some random fact you ran across a week or two ago.
mburns 2y ago
https://www.browserparrot.com/ https://www.browserparrot.com/
perkolator 2y ago
My browser history seems to work fine for this. Recording everything on the screen for this use case is completely absurd.
cheald 2y ago
FWIW, I've gotten in the habit of using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/ https://www.zotero.org/) with a browser extension to do this. If I read something that I think I might want to reference later, I just hit an extension button and it gets slurped into Zotero with a bunch of information indexed for retrieval later.
- coderatlarge 2y ago
  How much better is that than safari export-to-pdf and spotlight?

floppiplopp 2y ago

Maybe it'll help sift through the garbage pile of AI slop that AI will create, but the total recall results will partly hallucinated and be basically worthless. But it's AI, so much hype, very wow.