AI is coming to laptops and iPhones: worth having, or a bad idea? [Video]

Are you ready for AI to take over your tech devices?

We’re seeing new AI features from major companies this summer and fall.

While some features are free with new devices, others require you to spend money — often every month.

So are they worth the money?

New Microsoft laptops feature AI

Welcome to the future, of built-in artificial intelligence, at Best Buy.

Best Buy’s Seph Swaenepoel said Microsoft’s Copilot — free for the basic version, and $20 a month for Pro — is a big improvement over external AI.

What’s the advantage of having AI on your laptop?

“Having it localized as it is with Copilot Plus means it’s faster, it’s more efficient,” Swaenepoel said.

In just ten seconds, his laptop wrote me an employment recommendation.

“It just wrote a recommendation for me?” I asked him. “Yeah!” he said. In front of us was a two-page letter stating that I would be a great fit to be a Best Buy associate. (Maybe I would be?)

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