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Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer (www.theverge.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files.

Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint.

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[โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Some Copilot functions are done locally on some computers with the appropriate NPU chips. But it's Microsoft, so they'll be sending data home either way.

[โ€“] illi@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Yes, but them not calling it out in the article makes me thing this is not the case here. If it would be done locally, it would not be as bad. But I somehow doubt it would be.