With the integration of ChatGPT into Microsoft’s Edge browser and rumors of Windows 12, everything indicates that we could see an AI-powered Windows 12 future. However, the concept of an AI-based operating system being possible is not what many expect and we need to know the difference between science fiction and reality.
The term artificial intelligence is on everyone’s lips, since it is fashionable today or at least it seems to be. The truth is that this computing discipline has been with us for decades and only now is an AI-based operating system that runs on a conventional PC and does not require powerful data centers or hardware. extremely expensive becomes possible.
Hardware is always green for AI
We must take into account that artificial intelligence is nothing more than the ability to learn from a computer, and therefore the ability to learn certain patterns from certain data, which allows us to solve a series of problems automatically and efficiently. Make them fully automated today without requiring any extra effort. However, it is not a program, but solutions developed by the system itself after a learning period, which consists of a collection of data and scenarios of a specific type.
This process is not done on our machines, but the AI algorithms are already integrated into some applications and therefore what interests us is the right hardware to run them. Although in mobiles their central chipsets have neural units to accelerate these algorithms, in PCs these units are new in terms of processors and although we have things like Tensor units in NVIDIA RTX it is not is not a general element.
In addition, we had to wait for the arrival of Intel Core 12 and its AMX unit so that we did not have really specialized hardware for AI. In the case of AMD, the first processors to have hardware in this direction were the Ryzen 7000 for laptops, in particular the 7040 family. Therefore, unlike what happens with mobile phones, we are still very green in this regard and we have to wait a few years.
What will an AI-powered operating system look like?
If you think of a glorified assistant with the intelligence of a HAL 9000 and the ability to program from scratch the programs we ask for the same way ChatGPT gives you an answer, let us tell you it won’t be not like that at all, which doesn’t mean we won’t see improvements in the day-to-day experience, but it’s better to talk about something possible and useful than to talk about a system of exploitation of this type than to leave with daydreams.
What would your chances be?
- Said AI-based operating systems have better search by metadata, that is, unlike today, we can say it by voice or in writing: find me all yesterday’s files which are images and weigh more than 1 megabyte capacity.
- Since we use our voice, we can ask it to perform tasks such as installing and uninstalling programs, checking the status of drivers, changing the format and size of a file, etc. All this with a simple command and without having to navigate the menus, yes, it will mean that the programs and the operating system itself are prepared for it.
- The operating system is in charge of managing the processes between the different hardware resources, especially between the processor cores. A person with artificial intelligence capabilities can easily learn what is the best choice at any time and use resources more efficiently.
- We can also talk about the ability to manage our own problems, that is, being able to see if something is not right and take the appropriate measures to solve it without us having to worry.
As you can see, it has nothing to do with the image that science fiction has given us, although it would be a step forward in terms of usability and productivity compared to what we have today today. Do you think that the future of operating systems is AI to add new features never seen before or, on the contrary, they will never be fully implemented and will hardly evolve?
