{"id":476491,"date":"2023-01-16T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=476491"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:19:19","slug":"future-versions-of-windows-will-be-ai-powered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/476491-future-versions-of-windows-will-be-ai-powered.html","title":{"rendered":"Future versions of Windows will be AI-powered"},"content":{"rendered":"

A future version of Windows will be deeply integrated with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, Neowin reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft executive vice president and chief product officer Panos Panay recently revealed as much during a discussion with AMD CEO Lisa Su at CES 2023 earlier in January.<\/p>\n

The pair spoke about the new AI engine in AMD’s Ryzen 7040 chips, the first x86 processors to feature a dedicated on-chip AI engine.<\/p>\n

Panay said technology like this would enable Microsoft to build AI-powered software, which required a huge amount of compute power.<\/p>\n

Panay also said that the industry was at an inflexion point when it came to AI, which he labelled the defining technology of our time.<\/p>\n

“It’s like nothing I have ever seen before. It’s transforming industries, it’s improving our daily lives in many ways \u2014 some of it you see, some of it you don’t see,” said Panay.<\/p>\n

According to Panay, AI was going to reinvent how people do “quite literally”, “everything” on Windows.<\/p>\n

He mentioned several types of AI systems that could be baked into a new version of Windows, including large generative models for language, coding, and imagery.<\/p>\n

“These models are so powerful, so delightful, so useful, personal, but they are also very compute-intensive, and so we haven’t been able to do this before,” Panay said.<\/p>\n

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Panos Panay, Microsoft executive vice president and chief product officer<\/p><\/div>\n

Panay added that harnessing AI’s power would require an operating system that blurred the line between cloud and edge computing, which is what Microsoft was currently developing.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear whether Panay was referring to Windows 12 or a later version of the operating system.<\/p>\n

Reports suggest that the company is already planning to roll out the former in either 2024 or 2025, which would be barely 4-5 years after the launch of Windows 11.<\/p>\n

Panay’s comments come on the back of a Bloomberg report<\/strong><\/a> that Microsoft was considering an investment of as much as $10 billion (R168 billion) in OpenAI, the research laboratory behind ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Microsoft previously invested $1 billion<\/strong><\/a> in OpenAI in 2019, as part of a joint initiative to develop supercomputing technologies.<\/p>\n

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has gone viral since launching as a prototype at the end of November 2022, with many users praising its detailed responses and apparent knowledgeability on various topics.<\/p>\n

However, others have highlighted concerns that ChatGPT can also very confidently give wrong answers to questions.<\/p>\n

ChatGPT runs on OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models and is continuously fine-tuned through human supervision and reinforcement learning techniques.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is also reportedly working on integrating ChatGPT<\/strong><\/a> with its Bing search engine, a move that some experts reckon could lure users away from Google Search, presenting a significant threat to the latter’s business.<\/p>\n

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Now read: What artificial intelligence can’t do \u2014 yet<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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