Windows aint that bad? But then, I'm occasionally reminded that if you don't have a corporate IT dept. jealously vetting every update, and instead use the <i>shivers</i> Super Happy Consumer Pachinko Edition Windows, things are <i>very</i> different.
OpenAI free version of GPT3(3.5) is pretty decent.
For $20/month you can get access to OpenAI GPT4 (if memory serves).<p>I can use Bing GPT4 for free (at least for a while).<p>I would expect GPT4 to be better than the older version,
yet the Bing version seems markedly worse than the OpenAI
version.<p>Are they trained on different sets of data?<p>Why is one so much worse?
Duplicate of another story on the front page,<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39742058">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39742058</a> (<i>"Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows"</i>)
It’s incredible to watch Microsoft squander the good will they created with WSL, VS Code, and the initial version of Chromium Edge (which was my browser of choice before they started its enshittification). It’s perplexing to think that some Product Manager is being evaluated on a single digit percentage point uptick in Edge usage at the expense of driving people away from the entire Windows product, right at the time where they have a potential reason to use Windows again with Copilot.<p>Been moving increasingly to macOS which at least doesn’t act like it’s adware when I’m using it.
I saw a "Do you want to try this new AI" in my Win 11 VM today, it's disgusting that they can send ADS into MY system with EVERYTHING shut off, I mean tracking, ads, statistics, usage, help, everything that can be turned off without doing anything extraordinary.
As soon as the copilot garbage was installed on my computer without asking , I made sure to quickly update group policies and registry to disable it. Just yesterday it popped up the dialog asking me to try out copilot again. Just another case of windows “forgetting” settings.
Maybe they got word of the Apple - Google deal and this is just a desperate move to capture the market before openAI/chatgpt becomes a distant memory.