Microsoft's AI assistant Copilot will be baked-in Samsung's 2025 smart monitors and TVs

[thewayne]

Well, I think the subject pretty much says it all. A monitor doesn't have to be connected to the internet, and I can't really fathom why it would be aside from functionality like this. I don't think HDMI cables convey IP information. TVs: everyone wants you to connect their TV into to your WiFi so they can monetize what you're watching: LG makes more money off the data they collect from your viewing patterns than they do selling TVs!

You can "sign in to Microsoft for more personalized results". Or you can buy a different brand. And if you use a streaming device and DVD/BR player for your viewing, you don't have to buy a TV: you can buy a nice monitor and just ignore all the connectivity stuff. Or just not connect the WiFi, I've no idea if it will repeatedly beg you to connect to the mothership. My Sony BR player has Netflix and YouTube connectivity, but alas, it's not connected to my router in any fashion: I can access those through my Apple TV if I so desire.

Samsung has never been high on my list of preferred vendors, though I do have a nice little B&W Samsung laser printer that I bought just before HP finalized the purchase of Samsung's printer division.

https://www.theverge.com/news/767078/microsoft-samsung-tv-copilot-ai-assistant-launch

Comments

[dewline]

I've found their cellphones useful this past decade.

Not sure I want this in my next cellphone, though. At all.

[thewayne]

I wouldn't expect it in your phone as they use Android architecture, which is decidedly not MS.  AFAIK Copilot is not friendly with Android.  Overall, I understand that Samsung phones are quite respectable.

[ranunculus]

I have last year's model of Samsung phone that keeps asking if I want to use the "assistant" (can't remember the name.) NO I do not want to use any "assistant" on my phone. Ever. Apps yes.
And NO I do not want my refrigerator to order milk for me. The very thought makes me shudder.

[disneydream06]

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!
We no longer have our personal lives. 😡
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

If any can be monetized, it shall be monetized.

[felisdemens]

Oh lord. Absolutely NOT.

[thewayne]

Yeah. Most things absolutely should not be connected to the internet.

I was reading about some guy complaining that his toothbrush needed a connection. THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU BUY THE STUPID THING? IT'S NOT LIKE YOU HAD NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER!

[silveradept]

Foolish decision. I also thoroughly expect Copilot to interject itself into the experience unhelpfully.

We should probably be calling it and all other agents of its type "Clippy."