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People familiar with Microsoft's plans say that the company moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.

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[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah LLMs aren't true AI anymore than the simple scripts in games from decades ago are AI. They aren't intelligent or thinking at all, they just mix and mimic combinations of words they were trained with. They don't understand any of them.

It's crazy to me that people don't know this. But, then again, most people don't know the first thing about how their computers run. They don't need to know, I guess.