Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent

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It's not hard to understand the AI future Microsoft is betting billions on - a world where computers understand what you're saying and do things for you. It's right there in the ads for the latest Copilot PCs, where people cheerfully talk to their laptops and they talk back, answering questions in natural language and even doing things for them. The tagline is straightforward: "The computer you can talk to."

"You should be able to talk to your PC, have it understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that," Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi told us in October. "The PC should be able to act on your behalf."

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