AI inclusion is increasingly frustrating me, and no doubt I’ll look a bit of a grump in this post.
Before I go shaking my walking stick at the cloud, Latha fèill Anndrais sona dhuibh to our Scottish brothers and sisters.
AI is there at every turn. Blink and several more have appeared out of nowhere. It’s in your Operating System, your web browser, search engines, some of the websites you visit, your phone. Don’t get me wrong, AI has its uses (such as generating the Featured Image for this post) but does it need to be everywhere? It’s starting to feel like Westworld in here.
Last year I bought a new PC which included Windows 11. Co-pilot went straight away. After the next update I noticed Co-pilot was back so off it went again. Microsoft, sneaky bastards, then slipped it in again (oo-er), this time in Edge. I removed it from there. Edge only gets used to test sites I put together so that was a non-issue really.
At least web browsers and AI infused websites seem to give me the option to not use it. Windows seems to be getting it rammed right in there though. “Use Linux” I hear a certain online crowd shouting. I do, I have a *nix based laptop that I use almost as much as my desktop but wouldn’t it be nice not to have AI forced upon us?
What do you mean Linux users are the computing equivalent of Vegans?
Thank you Chris Titus
Chris Titus of the sitcom Titus that ran on FOX from 2000 to 2002? No, not that Chris Titus, this Chris Titus from https://christitus.com. Chris has put together a great utility that allows you to remove a bunch of crap from Windows in one fell swoop, including AI components; and even create an ISO so the next install can be done crap-free. All this through Windows Powershell without having to install any software. The Ultimate Windows Utility, a single line Powershell command which loads straight into RAM and runs from there.
I imagine a few years from now AI software will still be around but in a more refined way, not shoved into anything and everything like it is now. Either that or it’ll end up in the ‘tried it, people hated it’ bin along with the Segway, 3D TVs, and Google Glass.
