The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

(windowscentral.com)

31 points | by bj-rn 3 hours ago

4 comments

  • glimshe 1 hour ago
    This is the first time a corporation has spoiled a word for me.

    "Copilot" is a term like any other and when I first heard the name, I thought it was an alright, if uninspired, choice.

    Now I can't hear the word "Copilot" used in any context without having negative feelings due to Microsoft's saturation campaign.

    Speaking of this, I also wonder about present and future people named "Claude", a mainstream name in some parts of the world.

    • ternaryoperator 25 minutes ago
      This happens all the time. Mercedes is a fairly common first name for girls in Spanish countries. Then, of course Alexa, etc.
    • throwaway27448 20 minutes ago
      How often were you using copilot before hand?
      • esrauch 11 minutes ago
        More often than I was using the words Gemini, Claude or Alexa.
    • torben-friis 53 minutes ago
      Happens frequently. I can't hear tremendous anymore. Just considering ai I'm fed up with load bearing, wrinkle, catch...

      It got to the point where I feel irrationally hostile to a message when it claims I'm right :).

      • dgellow 36 minutes ago
        Even just the term AI is now so cancerous!

        A bit unrelated to that thread but I love that clip from a debate where John McCarthy interjects: https://youtu.be/pyU9pm1hmYs?t=152

        “Excuse me. I invented the term artificial intelligence. I invented it because we had to do something when we were trying to get money for a summer study in 1956, and I had a previous bad experience”

        (The whole debate is interesting, I would recommend if you like that type of historical things)

      • api 38 minutes ago
        Hey now, I love Claudish! That's my honest load bearing assessment that I'd like to flag.
  • throwa356262 25 minutes ago
    The sad part of this is that all those powerful NPUs are basically paperweight.

    35-50 low power TOPS taking 1/5 of the die area and not being used by anyone...

    • samrus 1 minute ago
      We cantnrun local models on them? They must have some sort of api exposed right? Qualcomm has the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine iirc
    • bfrog 16 minutes ago
      These things are a waste of sand.

      Could’ve added more gpu or cpu or cache and people would’ve been happier.

  • macintux 42 minutes ago