AI Summaries Are Coming To Notepad (theverge.com) 26
way2trivial shares a report: Microsoft is testing AI-powered summaries in Notepad. In an update rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, you'll be able to summarize information in Notepad by highlighting a chunk of text, right-clicking it, and selecting Summarize.
Notepad will then generate a summary of the text, as well as provide an option to change its length. You can also generate summaries by selecting text and using the Ctrl + M shortcut or choosing Summarize from the Copilot menu.
Notepad will then generate a summary of the text, as well as provide an option to change its length. You can also generate summaries by selecting text and using the Ctrl + M shortcut or choosing Summarize from the Copilot menu.
More useless crap (Score:2)
Meanwhile Deep Mind wins the Nobel prize and goes on to uncover the secrets of the cell ...and the consumer-facing AI companies continue to churn out crap generators
Perplexity and other deep research tools are starting to get really useful
Scientists are figuring out ways to design AI tools to improve their work
Notepad++ or Linux to Avoid Data Theft (Score:3)
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What does summarizing via AI has to do with "data theft"? One would expect Slashdot users to understand things better.
What's the use case for this? (Score:2)
Is it "Hey, summarize what I just wrote" ?? Or is it "Let me paste text I got from the internet/from a Word document/from a PDF into Notepad, and summarize that." ??
this is becoming a joke (Score:2)
If it wasn't already. Nobody should be editing their essays in notepad.
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It's Already Fucked So Why Not? (Score:2)
They already fucked notepad by extending it with things like autosave/neverclose. So, why not pour more unwanted diarrhea into it?
It's too bad that this has happened. It used to be the most used text editor on the planet for the last ~30 years.
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You are the hero of the day.
Why? (Score:2)
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Because they're removing Wordpad [microsoft.com] later this year, so Notepad will be the only text editor that's a default part of Windows. But nobody wants just a plain text editor, so they have to add in all the features from Wordpad.
Yes, it's as stupid as it sounds.
Why? It's a text editor (Score:2)
OneNote, I can understand. That could actually be useful. But notepad?
Then again, this is the company that things Windows 11 and "Outlook (new)" is an improvement.
Re: Why? It's a text editor (Score:2)
Microsoft has lost its way. When OneNote was created, it was not so bad yet.
Do they have an AI running their company? (Score:4, Funny)
Just one question. (Score:2)
Can I turn this crap off?
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Check the link above for how to restore the classic Notepad. Took me less than 30 seconds.
"Uh oh! Looks like you're writing a suicide note." (Score:2)
In Notepad? The simple text editor? (Score:4, Informative)
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WTF? Nobody needs this in a text editor.
Just think what it can do with ASCII art.
Spell check? (Score:2)
Jesus! (Score:2)
What's next - a free AI in a little cellophane pouch in your kids' breakfast cereal? Though I suspect even the worst breakfast cereal is more nutritious and less harmful than the LLM-ification of the whole planet.
This is not merely a panopticon. It's a panopticon which makes people increasingly dependent on it until they're unable to think for themselves. Sure - outsource your thinking and analysis and attention to AI until your brain atrophies and you can't do even basic things without guidance and instruc
So uhh (Score:2)
SDK demonstration? (Score:2)
But thinking about it - if MS are putting AI features right into the core of Windows, the new version may well still be that.