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Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down (arstechnica.com)
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[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Sad, with the emergence of GPT they should've find a way to combine it with GPT to actually have a smart assistant.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 30 points 2 years ago

Depends what you mean by "smart assistant". Spew a bunch of trivia on a random subject? Sure. Understand your speech commands better? Maybe. Actually manage your stuff (meetings, reminders)? Nope.

ChatGPT is good at making up pieces of text that come very very close to what you wanted (more so in the spirit rather than the letter of it), but it's not very good at anything else.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

ChatGPT has potential to create meeting invitations. I asked it:

Today is 2023-08-07. I’m in Tokyo. Draft a calendar invitation for coffee meeting at Starbucks in Shibuya during lunch time on Wednesday. Answer in ics format.

It answered:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//ChatGPT//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Coffee Meeting at Starbucks Shibuya
LOCATION:Starbucks Shibuya, Tokyo
DTSTART:20230809T120000
DTEND:20230809T130000
DESCRIPTION:Let's meet up for a coffee and chat at Starbucks in Shibuya during lunchtime.
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Requires a bit of prompt engineering to make it work, but this can probably be improved with some fine tuning. All you need is something that detects and parses ics invitation in the output.

[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Depends what you mean by "smart assistant". Spew a bunch of trivia on a random subject? Sure. Understand your speech commands better? Maybe. Actually manage your stuff (meetings, reminders)? Nope.

Give you a big juicy fart? Definitely

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[-] gelberhut@lemdro.id 13 points 2 years ago

Ms already pushing copilot in office and windows. I think, using an old branding with questionable reputation (Cortana) would be a bad move for them.

They simply start from scratch using all "new MS" branding and wording.

[-] dbilitated@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

isn't the article about Cortana being replaced by a gpt powered one?

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Hahaha no. No one wants that. But it's coming I'm sure

[-] gunpachi@lemmings.world 8 points 2 years ago

There are a lot of people who would be excited for something like this.

It's just that, people who focus more on privacy tend to avoid such products, and even whole companies like microshaft.

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