Windows AI Copilot has just hit Windows Insider builds
A while back, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 was going to be getting Copilot—a new AI 'personal assistant' to replace Cortana within your OS. Well, it's just dropped on Windows Insider builds and is shaping up to be an all encompassing little helper.
Windows Insiders on Dev Channel Build 23493 will have access to the new Copilot feature as of now, so will no doubt be making the most of it to access all those sneaky Windows features hidden three or four menus deep in the new OS.
«Windows Copilot will appear as a side bar docked to the right where it won’t overlap with your desktop content» says the Windows 11 insider blog (via Tom's Hardware).
Apparently, Copilot will «run unobstructed alongside your open app windows, allowing you to interact with Windows Copilot anytime you need.»
Not only can Copilot help you navigate your Windows 11 system, it can also suggest Spotify playlists, summarise the contents of your documents, and even help you execute relatively complex tasks without ever having to open Command Prompt. The examples given are «Change to dark mode» and «Write a story about a dog who lives on the moon.»
The latter being a very important Windows function.
It sounds great for someone like me, who winces at the thought of opening that little black console. «Copilot can you cd… back to my user desktop and run X264 in 32bit for me, then average out the four second runs and put the result in this excel spreadsheet in the correct prebuilt system column, please?»
That would be ideal for benchmarking, but I have a feeling it would struggle.
I do foresee some issues with the program being bound to Win + C as I'm always accidentally hitting that combo, currently bound to the Teams Chat feature that about 0.01% of
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