MSFT already regards the PC as a thought-delivery device.
The new AI will complete a cycle by doing the thinking for the renter of the appliance, while maintaining the necessary illusion that the renter is powerfully directing his own activity.
Why do I use the term "renter?" For 40 years, these devices have become conduits for the extraction of intellectual rent. Anyone will be wise to note that the devices do not belong to you in any true sense of ownership. When you start them, you see the message "Welcome". Imagine if whenever you came home and opened your front-door, there was a company factotum standing before you saying "Welcome" and expecting you to shake his hand before you can enter the house you think is yours. This is the objective reality of these devices.
I might suppose that none of this is lost on anyone here... The whole point of hackintosh is obviously an attempt by free individuals to mediate the inexorable pull of their toil in the fertile fields of the world-wide-web into profits due the manor houses of Silicon Valley finance. Apple is a little more polite about the coercion because they plan to more completely integrate their serfs into the plantation via intellectual share-cropping. Apple has always been open about this: It's the whole point of the 1984 commercial!
In this way, MSFT's AI agenda is actually laughable, because it proudly regards the customer as a child to be guided by a skewmorphic mascot: Clippy will ensure your viability as a labor resource by harmonizing your speech with the other bots who will be conducting your life. Sure you could learn to talk like a bot yourself, but you might as well let their bot do it for you.
It's generally overlooked that once self-driving vehicles are perfected, where they passenger chooses to go will become irrelevant: you will go where the car takes you, and letting the car determine your destination will become an ordinary expectation. This is exactly what's needed to fully direct a population towards the productive ends of its owners. And if you are charmed and entertained along the way, so much the better for them! A good slave never has cause to question his servitude.
The great danger of AI is not that it will gain sentience and rise up to prefer its own needs, the danger is its use by people in further enslavement of each other, of which there is 500 years of industrial tradition.
At least here, there's still some questioning, which I consider a hopeful sign.
