Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office
WiredOCT 2024
Microsoft is changing the virtual assistant game — not only does it have remarkably advanced long-term memory, decision-making, and reasoning skills, but it's able to utilize these capabilities in real- time with its human users. Before we know it, our AI assistants will soon know what weusers want before weit's askasked for— it, establishing an unprecedentedly efficient work life.
Before we jump on the AI assistant bandwagon, we must consider the serious risks that come with this technology. AI assistants are built to monitor, record, and analyze every minute of our daily liveslife, but itthey hashave no clue how to distinguish between sensitive and nonsensitive topics. This has already led to uncomfortable in-office data leaks, with more to come if weconsumers simply hand over ourprivate livesinformation to these products.
There's a 50% chance that AIs will program programs that can program AIs by January 2028, according to the Metaculus prediction community.