Microsoft goes all in on Clippy in the form of Copilot 🤖

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Microsoft goes all in on Clippy in the form of Copilot

Bow to your new AI overlords

With the rise back from obscurity of Microsoft’s Bing search engine last year due to generative AI, the company continues to set its sights on complete and utter annihilation integration of AI with your digital life. Soon, you may be able to use Copilot in every facet of your interaction with Microsoft products, whether it be through the Office suite or through just using Windows in general.

Given the whole industry buzz about the “next form of computing” (like with the Rabbit R1 or Humane Ai Pin), it wouldn’t surprise me to see Microsoft take big leaps towards focusing on an AI first approach to every aspect of their business (including hardware) for the next 10 years, especially on a hardware level too.

Smart Cities and the Flow of Data

As we move into a more technology-enabled architectural future, one of the key parts of the conversation is privacy, surveillance and the ownership/usage of data. As professionals working in the industry, it’s also our responsibility to keep the conversation going and to think critically about the consequence of embedding sensors and technology into the built environment. Samantha Frew in the link above tries to use architecture itself to limit the possibilities of surveillance.

Intern architects realizing they’ll be drawing details for 20 years

Lightning Round

  • The next Bitcoin halving (when miners get their rewards cut in half) is happening soon! This is not investment advice. Just FYI.

  • MGA’s annual balls to the walls party happened last Friday with minimal property damage

Quick Tips

  • You can use ChatGPT’s custom GPTs (premium only) to help you expand a lot of ChatGPT’s initial capabilities.

    • For example, using Ai PDF, I was able to upload the City of Vancouver’s Construction Specifications and ask it questions regarding the document.

    • And with the Wolfram custom GPT, it seems like it’s possible to do actual math and not have it hallucinate a bunch of numbers, huzzah!