Does anyone know how I can let my corporate IT office disable Cortana on my windows 10 laptop? It keeps showing up and cannot be closed once it does: it stays in your alt-tab history until force quitting through process manager…
I’ve mentioned this before; why can’t we have an assistant cobbled up to GPT-4 and one of those new voice Synthesizers you can’t discern from a real person anymore? Of all vendors, wouldn’t Microsoft be predestined to pull this off? It feels like all components are laid out neatly, but nobody connects them into a coherent product.
(I actually had this happen when I worked in helpdesk, because unattend.xml would take long enough to kick in after a reimage that she would start talking, then get cut off)
I remember this fondly. Fortunately now that it's gone Mac OS has taken up the mantle of having a loud TTS jumpscare you on startup. It's quite common to hear "MAC OS CONTAINS A BUILT IN SCREEN READER," followed quickly by the mute button being mashed.
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Does anybody know why that is?
1. GPU’s are expensive and difficult to get in quantities that microsoft would need.
2. Given (1) I would expect microsoft to use their GPU’s where where its easier to monetize or its of strategic importance(bing, M365, Azure)
Building a GPT4 based cortana could be a much lower priority right now.
Disclaimer: I’m a microsoft employee, the opinion is my own.
(I actually had this happen when I worked in helpdesk, because unattend.xml would take long enough to kick in after a reimage that she would start talking, then get cut off)