Windows CoPilot+ PC Exclusive AI Features Disappoint..

hey everybody it's lony and you've probably heard by now that there's a bunch of new arm-based Windows computers hitting the market I've got one here on the desk already this is the HP Omni book X which is on loan from HP and lenovo's got one that's coming in tomorrow and I'm going to do full reviews of each of these individually but in this video I wanted to focus on a few of the features that are specific to these co-pilot plus PCS running with the snap Dragon X Elite processor because these are capable of doing some degree of on device artificial intelligence and to be honest with you I'm not all that impressed with these features and I thought it might be better to just pull them out and talk about them here in this video and then we can spend more time on the attributes of these machines individually because I think the selling point for these is not their AI features but their battery longevity and potentially performance which is what I'll be exploring as I continue testing these computers so we're going to dive into the AI stuff now and we'll have more later on this one and the other one when it gets here but I do want to let you know in the interest of full disclosure that this computer is on loan from HP when we're done with this it goes back to them all the opinions you're about to hear are my own no one is paying for this review nor has anyone reviewed or approved what you're about to see before it was uploaded so let's take a look at these AI features now and then I'll get back to testing it all right so we're going to start off inside of the paint application and this works just like paint has worked since the Windows 3.1 days except they've got a new feature here called co-creator now what you see on screen here is my rudimentary rocket ship orbiting the Earth this is about the best artwork that I can do but if I tap on co-creator here uh what I can do is tell the app or the AI what I am looking for and then it will render a higher quality version of it using my image as a guide now you do have to put a prompt in because it won't know what to do with your image just by looking at it but it does look at the elements of the image based on the prompt that you're giving it to generate something special for you here now right now as you can see it doesn't look much different that's because I have the creativity turned down but if I turn the creativity up what it will do is start uh making some creative decisions here and right now it kind of looks like that uh thing from Star Trek 4 so we'll just have it kind of keep generating here until we get something decent and uh as I keep adjusting this you get varying degrees of success but the planet looks a lot cooler the rocket I guess looks a little bit better now and then I also have the ability to have a different style here so I could maybe do it in anime style so it'll go out and do that and you can see the mpu is really working here um I can have it render it as a pixel art so we can kind of give it a little bit of an eight or 16 bit feel here as you can see so you have some cool options here to make it look a little different and what I can do here is is also add additional elements so if I go and hit this uh oval here I'm going to make sure that I've got a fill here yep and I'm going to fill it with yellow and I'm just going to put this into the image and after I drop the image here what's going to happen is co-creator will now add that element to the mix and I can then uh go through some of these different options here and finish it up now if I hit the button here what it will do is replace my image with what it generated and as you can see here it does an okay job but because this is all running on device you're not going to get the kind of image quality that you would expect from something like chat GPT or the doll e image generator that it uses or some of the other ones out there that have a lot more horsepower at their disposal but compared to other on device image generators I have played with this is a lot easier to work with so you have less dials to turn it will generally give you something somewhat useful I guess uh in a pinch but again it's more of a gwiz feature than anything else but it is kind of fun to watch the mpu uh chew on and process those images oddly this is running on device however it requires an internet connection so watch what happens when I turn off my Wi-Fi here so let me just switch off the Wi-Fi and when I turn it off if it lets me here um it will actually uh not work so there we go we disabled the Wi-Fi and if I jump in here to add some more information you can see that an internet connection is required and the reason it needs an internet connection is because Microsoft is having their servers review your request before you submit it to make sure that you don't do anything that they deem is inappropriate so they are doing some editorializing of what you're submitting to make sure that you're not going to do something they don't like so although this is an offline procedure in that it's actually generating on device you still need to communicate with Microsoft servers to make sure that you're using their software the way they want you to use it so that was a bit of a turnoff for me and it's not all that uh interesting to me to be honest with you it's kind of cool I think it's got potential I am sure that they're hoping thirdparty developers will do more with this but right now this is what you get at least for one of the exclusive features now they've got another feature here called image Creator which I have not been able to get to work work and apparently this feature uses doll e so this is going out to the internet to generate an image and what you can do is ask it to create something and it will make it for you you're supposed to get 50 credits to work with as part of your uh installation here but I have zero credits and I can't generate anything so I was not able to try out the image Creator feature here in my testing let's take a look now though at the photos app and see what kind of AI we can do with my photos all right so I've got my ugly mug up here on on screen and if I click on the edit button here uh what we can do is jump into the edit screen that you're probably familiar with and one of the features that the co-pilot plus PCS get is this AI enhancement option so if I click on that I can do some different things here so why don't we say uh put me out in space with a planet and stars and if I hit enter here it will start generating and again we've got a creativity dial here and you can also see that the mpu is working to generate that and I guess I get kind of a galaxy effect here I can turn the creativity up a little bit maybe and get a little bit more let's see if we get something else okay so there you go nothing crazy unfortunately I can't change the entire image because there's a face in the photo and it will not let me manipulate faces so I can't get like a cool anime effect of me because they do not allow you to edit people's imagery even your own with your own permission again this is one of the uh controls that they've put on this to prevent people from doing different things with it all right so now I've got an image of a space shuttle on the Launchpad and if we jump over to my screen here you can see that I've given it a prompt already and I found with this you have to tell it what's in the picture or it will just totally destroy it so I'm going to tell uh the AI that I want a space shuttle on the Launchpad at night with a moon beaming down from above and I'm going to hit the button here and see what it can do for me so let's submit that I've got it kind of at the 50% Mark for creativity and as you can see here it's I guess sort of at night but it totally mangles the image and as I turn the creativity up it just gets worse so it's kind of a gimmicky feature here I'm guessing the background thing is probably more useful than this um but again it's just not something I would buy a computer for and although it's neat that it's happening on device this could be a lot better let's take a look at one of the other features now so right now I'm playing back a video that is in Korean I can't understand anything they're saying this is from my friends aing news and what I've got running right now is another co-pilot feature called live captions and what this is doing is it's making use of the systems npu and I'll pull up our little taskbar here again to do a live translation of what is being said and it automatically detected that there were speaking Korean and it's doing that translation here pretty much in real time now we're doing this with a video but this also works with zoom calls and Microsoft teams calls and others so you could get a real-time translation of any language that is running through the audio system here that's supported by this feature I don't think it does a two-way translation yet I think it only translates things into English but again a neat little feature that runs completely on device and this one so far is the most useful one I've encountered now these co-pilot plus PCS pick up a few extra windows Studio Effects that are lacking on Intel and AMD based devices uh one of the big ones here is that you now get something called eye contact watch my eyes here now I'm looking down at the screen and you can see that it's moving the position of my eyes to make it look like I'm looking in the camera so you've got some uh neat little features here that are subtle but will let you always look at the camera even when you're not actually looking at it this Fe is something that I've seen manufacturers add on their own through some thirdparty drivers but now it's built into the OS for these arm-based machines uh you also get maybe a bit of a nicer portrait and standard blur option here if you wanted to blur out your background this is something windows can do already but I think it works a little bit better perhaps uh with the U co-pilot Plus Computers here and they also have this creative filter option that will do some neat little filtering here um but I've seen this on my phone and I'm sure many of you have as well so you can change it to a few different things here nothing crazy um but you do have a few more options that you didn't have before so that is it for these co-pilot plus specific features that you will find at least from Microsoft on the Snapdragon X Elite computers now we will be looking at some features that manufacturers are implementing on each individual unit when we do the individual reviews but for the most part I don't think there's a very compelling reason here to choose choose this PC on the features you just saw alone now there is one feature that Microsoft of course is leaving out which was their biggest one which was called recall and that one arguably was the most useful and what recall does and this is a little scary is that it takes screenshots of your computer as you're using it it stores those screenshots and uses the onboard AI to allow you to search back through your prior history so if you were planning a trip and you couldn't remember the name of the hotel you were looking at if you just give it a plain English prompt of hotels in Florida it'll go back through your history and find the website that you were on with the link and an image of the screen so you can recall what you forgot about earlier and that's pretty useful the images don't leave the computer but if somebody gets access to the computer you're in trouble so that is why Microsoft hit the pause button on that and without that big Flagship feature there isn't much here to compel people I think to go for this machine over an Intel or AMD based one but what we will be exploring in the upcoming reviews is whether or not the advantages that arm can bring to the mix are enough to put you over the top to buy one of these versus a more traditional PC I can tell you already the battery life is spectacular on these but it's been the case on all of the arm machines prior as well the issue has been performance and compatibility so that is what we will be exploring in the upcoming reviews so stay tuned for that but I did want to do this video now just so that I have have this as context for what you will see coming up so until next time this is lon zbin thanks for watching this channel is brought to you by the lon.tv supporters including gold level supporters Brian Parker budley hot sauce and video games Steve Green and am de brown if you want to help the channel you can by contributing as little as a dollar a month head over to lon.tv support to learn more and don't forget to subscribe visit lon.tv SLS

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Keywords: Copilot+, PCs, Computers, ARM, Snapdragon Elite X, Snapdragon X, HP Omnibook 14, hands-on, AI, on device AI, exclusive features, review, overview, Lon Seidman, Lon reviews tech, Lon.TV

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Length: 13min 9sec (789 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2024