Microsoft Is So Confident With AI, It’s Putting A Dedicated Copilot Key Into Your Next PC

Microsoft Is So Confident With AI, It’s Putting A Dedicated Copilot Key Into Your Next PC

Pretty much every single keyboard in the PC realm you see today comes with a Windows key – this has been the standard for Microsoft’s Windows operating system since 1994. However, 30 years on, the company is betting big on the next big thing – which is AI. To that end, it wants your next PC to have a dedicated key to access its Copilot AI.

“In this new year, we will be ushering in a significant shift toward a more personal and intelligent computing future where AI will be seamlessly woven into Windows from the system, to the silicon, to the hardware. This will not only simplify people’s computing experience but also amplify it, making 2024 the year of the AI PC,” Microsoft wrote in its blog post.

It’s pretty obvious how badly Microsoft wants to win the AI race with the advantage it currently has right now (thanks to OpenAI), and Google is catching up fast. The company sees the opportunity to one-up Google Assistant, and this is something that they have failed before when Cortana failed to catch on among Windows users.

So where would the Copilot key end up in future laptops/PCs? According to the images shown by Microsoft, it’s taking the spot where Right Ctrl resides – for most users, this is a rarely used key that could be repurposed into something else easily, though I’m not sure if gamers would approve of this idea (especially when you have GTA V levels of key binds going on, every key counts).

In fact, the new Dell XPS lineup has already implemented this new key into its keyboard, according to Tom’s Hardware. However, users without the dedicated key can still access it through the Windows+C shortcut key. Another caveat – for regions where Copilot is still not available, that shortcut key will bring up Windows Search instead.

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Pokdepinion: I don’t think I’d be using AI enough to warrant a dedicated key for it. Plus, isn’t Win+C and a dedicated spot in the taskbar sufficient?