STACK #237 July 2024

TECH FEATURE

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NPU You might be familiar with the CPU and GPU – the central and graphics processing units in devices. Copilot+ PCs add a third brain to the mix – the neural processing unit, or NPU. This is what powers the AI right there on the device, so you can tap into your Copilot securely and privately, without needing to connect to the cloud.

Lately you’ve probably seen the amazing things that artificial intelligence (AI) can do, and wondered how you can actually make use of it yourself. Microsoft’s new line of Copilot+ PCs feature built-in AI to lend a hand with the stuff that you do every day – plus things that you can’t do on any other PC. MEET MICROSOFT’S NEW AI COPILOT

Words Michael Irving

app, summarise a long business document, troubleshoot issues, generate an image, or even pick out all the cat photos in your camera reel. It’s a completely new way to work and play with a PC. Cocreator The Cocreator system helps bring

choose to exclude chosen apps and websites from ever being saved. * Recall is coming soon through a post-launch Windows update – see aka.ms/copilotpluspcs Studio Effects AI can make sure you look your best in video calls in a few ways. It can blur your background, boost your lighting, or apply fun filters. It can automatically crop or zoom your feed to keep you in frame while you move around. It can even maintain eye contact with the camera while you read text anywhere on the screen. Live Captions Copilot’s Live Captions can automatically translate over 40 languages and bring up English subtitles for any audio passing through your PC. Whether it’s live, like a Skype call with overseas colleagues, or pre-recorded like a podcast or YouTube video, bust down that language barrier in any app.

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Copilot+ takes off Microsoft’s new Copilot+ PCs tap into this powerful new tool to create the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built. Whichever model you get – that includes Microsoft’s own Surface laptops, as well as devices from Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo– will be able to perform at least 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS), and last a full day on a single charge. In fact, Copilot+ PCs are up to 20 times more powerful and 100 times more efficient at AI workloads than previous Windows devices. And, of course, they’ll give you access to a bunch of AI-enabled abilities that you’ve only dreamed of before. Your Copilot sits in your taskbar, waiting for you to click on it, or activate it with a new dedicated button on the keyboard. Once it’s going, you can basically ask it to do whatever you want: switch to dark mode, open a specific

your vision in a few words or sketch out a rough outline, and Cocreator will fill out the details. In Photos, restyle your images so they look like oil paintings, anime, paper craft, claymation, or pixel art. You can even crank the creativity slider up and down, to choose how much “effort” the

AI puts in. Recall

Seen something cool, or important, but can’t remember where it was? The new Recall system* will find it instantly. Your Copilot+ PC has a photographic memory that you can scroll through to revisit everything you’ve seen and done recently, with information organised based on relationships and associations, just like the human mind. And don’t worry, it’s all saved locally, you can delete saved data, pause the function, or

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