Year: 2024

How to split Windows in Windows 11

Dan Uff March 25, 2024 0 1

Working in multiple Windows on a Windows PC is a must or some people. We here use the feature all the time when we write articles or do other stuff.

Fortunately, Windows 11 makes this a snap.

Here's how:

Open a Windows app.
Open a second Windows app.
Move the mouse to the square icon at the upper-right of the screen.
A drop down menu appears showing the possible options to arrange more than one Window.
Select the option.
The currently opened window will move to where you've selected, to one side of the screen.
Now click on the second window.
Repeat steps 3-6.
That's it.

#MSFT pushing out AI to more Windows 10 users

Dan Uff March 24, 2024 0 0

Microsoft has announced it will be pushing out its CoPilot AI to more Windows 1o users in the coming weeks and months.

A website named Neowin spotted the revelation in the Windows message center where Microsoft let us know that Copilot is coming to a wider audience – so, if you haven’t seen the AI assistant yet, you may well do soon enough.

Eligible Windows 10 version 22H2 users with non-managed devices will start receiving Copilot later this month. As a reminder, Microsoft began rolling out Copilot to Windows 10 in November 2023 and plans to deliver it to all users by the end of May 2024 (that also applies to Windows 11 users).

In addition to making Copilot available to more users, the company made it possible to make up to 10 requests to try Copilot's capabilities without signing in with a Microsoft Account or Entra ID.

Windows Notepad is finally getting some new features

Dan Uff March 23, 2024 0 0

Microsoft wants to pack GPT technology into just about every service and app it owns these days, and other tech companies are eager to integrate GPT models into various services. But what happens when you put all of GPT-2 inside an Excel spreadsheet? Rather than a tool for performing tasks or coding, you end up with a teaching tool.

According to Ishan Anand, the software developer behind "spreadsheets are all you need," "if you can understand a spreadsheet, then you can understand AI!" Those aren't just empty marketing words either. Anand placed the entirety of GPT-2 inside an Excel spreadsheet to illustrate how AI functions. Specifically, GPT-2 small has been packed inside of Excel to teach how AI works.

As you would expect from a sheet that holds an entire GPT model, you may run into issues when navigating the spreadsheet. "Unfortunately, it is not unusual for Excel to lock up (but only on a Mac) while using this spreadsheet," said Anand. "It is highly recommended to use the manual calculation mode in Excel and the Windows version of Excel (either on a Windows directory or via Parallels on a Mac)."

Anand has a series of lessons that use the spreadsheet to illustrate how AI works. The videos break things down in a way that makes it much easier to stand how a model receives information, categorizes it, and then acts. You can download the spreadsheet used by Anand through GitHub.

The first lesson is a 10-minute video called Demystifying GPT with Excel. The video illustrates how GPT-2 processes information, providing insight into how models function and process information. The second lesson goes deeper into detail, including explaining the tokenization phase and the Byte Pair Encoding algorithm that's used in models like ChatGPT.

Anand has an extra lesson that goes even deeper to explain how he used Excel throughout his lessons.

GPT-2 is a precursor to more powerful GPT tech, such as GPT-4 Turbo that now powers the free version of Microsoft Copilot. GPT-2 was around before "chat" was added to a GPT model.

Via: Windows Central

MSFT Copilot is plugging into Windows 11’s File Explorer

Dan Uff March 22, 2024 0 1

The Windows File Explorer has been around since Windows 3.1. Now its going to be updated to work with Copilot.

First spotted by well-known leaker by the name of PhantomOfEarth on X, spoitted a Copilot option in the File Explorer's context menu.

Screenshots from Windows Latest show Copilot as an option when you right-click on a file in Windows 11 Build 26080. From there, you can select actions like "Send to Copilot" or "Summarize." Sending to Copilot enables the user to ask questions or send requests about the file within the Copilot interface and using the summarize feature also sends the file to Copilot, but with bullet-pointed overview of the document.

Stay tuned for any updates.