Technology @lemmy.world fne8w2ah @lemmy.world 11 mo. ago

Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down

arstechnica.com Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down

Cortana will remain in Teams and Outlook, for now, but is going away in Windows.

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Sad, with the emergence of GPT they should've find a way to combine it with GPT to actually have a smart assistant.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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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- isn't the article about Cortana being replaced by a gpt powered one?
- Hahaha no. No one wants that. But it's coming I'm sure
  
  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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